5. What fabrics do you use to make it “luxury & premium”?
The quality of material that we use is incredibly important and you can often tell
when a pocket square for example is produced from a cheaper fibre. Our silk for
example, is the highest grade we could procure and we have devoted a lot of our
energies to finding the perfect weight and weave for our pocket squares and
scarves, which is a very fine mulberry silk twill with 100% silk filament, and this
ensures that it wasn’t too bulky in the pocket but would hold it’s shape when folded.
Plus we needed to ensure that when printing the paintings we could get a perfectly
clear image transferred onto the silk while ensuring that the bleed of the ink means
you get almost a carbon copy on the reverse. Very few squares available on the
market today give you that level of bleed through the silk and so you’ll often see
quite a bleached version on one side, our weight of silk and printing process ensures
that however folded in the pocket you get an exceptional representation of the full
design and colour palette. We’re also now branching into using wool silk blends and
different textured fabrics to provide something a little different such as with our
George Barbier V&A collection. In terms of our other items such as ties, we’re
collaborating with world renowned fabric houses such as Scabal to produce
something truly unique.