Sartorial
IN CONVERSATION: GREGORY FARMER Liam Jefferies meets the man heading up two Made in England brands, GFC and HE Sports, combining deadstock and slow fashion with a penchant for subcultural icons www.gregoryfarmer.co.uk www.hesports.co.uk
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regory Farmer is standing head and shoulders above the rest of the patrons at the pub just off Beak Street, in both stature and sartorial elan. Greg is wearing his own sports slacks, fly-front Mac and seafood green Oxford popover. He is also wearing a self-confessed ‘day-one-of-lockdown’ face mask made from his mother-in-law’s curtains. Gregory runs two new labels bringing about mid-century stylings, Gregory Farmer Clothing and HE Sports. As such, he is a busy fellow, but he nonetheless found time for a pint or three with me, to discuss his various collections, our shared obsessions with frogmouth pockets and collar rolls, and the kismet of catching a particular episode of TOTP2.
“The British manufacturing industry was so powerful and so great for so long, and I feel that it is almost out of reach now. But if lots of people like me do little things, creating small pockets of people making in England again using British cloth, slow fashion style, it can be really good again, and that’s what I’m after”
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