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2019.81
Title
Craig Green Tie Dye Collarless Shirt
Date(s)
- Spring Summer 2014 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(2013-)
Biographical history
Craig Green (b. 1986) founded the menswear label Craig Green in 2012, following his graduation from Central Saint Martins’s MA Fashion course, where he received the L’Oréal Professionnel Creative Award for his graduate collection. The brand showed its Spring Summer 2013 collection in June 2012 as part of Fashion East’s Installations at the inaugural London Collections: Men, followed by their first runway show in January 2013 as part of the Fashion East MAN show. In 2014 and 2015 Craig Green was shortlisted for the LVMH Prize. In 2014 Craig Green won the British Fashion Award for Emerging Menswear Designer and was awarded the British Designer of the Year Menswear at the British Fashion Awards in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Craig Green was awarded £150,000 as the winner of the annual British Fashion Council / GQ Designer Men’s Wear Fund in May 2016. The company has collaborated with several brands, including Grenson, Björn Borg, adidas, Champion and Valentino, and most notably with Italian brand Moncler, with whom Craig Green began working in 2016 on their Genius Building line.
Sources: lvmh.com; WWD.
Sources: lvmh.com; WWD.
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Blue hand tie-dyed collarless shirt with raw neckline. It has a back yoke, centre back seam, pleated cuffs, a left breast pocket and a curved hem. The front placket and all seams are top stitched. It fastens with five navy plastic buttons down the centre front and two on each cuff. Made in the UK.
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Material: Cotton
Label: CRAIG GREEN 100% Cotton. Made in the UK. Cold Wash.
Measurements:
Width 50 cm
Back length 77 cm
Sleeve length 63 cm
Shoulder width 48 cm
Label: CRAIG GREEN 100% Cotton. Made in the UK. Cold Wash.
Measurements:
Width 50 cm
Back length 77 cm
Sleeve length 63 cm
Shoulder width 48 cm
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Note
Craig Green presented his Spring Summer 2014 collection at MAN during London Collections: Men. The collection was based around ideas of chaos, control and illusion. It included surface and texture development such as the hand tie-dye process.
Note
Craig Green presented his Spring Summer 2014 collection at MAN during London Collections: Men. The collection was based around ideas of chaos, control and illusion. It included surface and texture development such as the hand tie-dye process.