Item 2019.95 - Craig Green Sleeveless Quilted Top with Straps

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2019.95

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Craig Green Sleeveless Quilted Top with Straps

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  • 2015 (Creation)

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Name of creator

Craig Green
(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.

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Westminster Menswear Archive

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Quilted dark blue cotton sleeveless tabard style top with black webbing straps. It has bound edges around the neckline, sides and bottom hem and closes at the centre front with a zip. The front is quilted with vertical lines of stitching. It has four pairs of wide black webbing straps which are sewn horizontally across the chest, the lower two are threaded through a wide flap. The straps on the left are sewn down across the chest, the corresponding straps on the right are shorter and only the ends are sewn to the sides.

The back panel is also quilted with vertical lines of stitching. Over the upper back is an extra layer of fabric which is gathered at the waist. There are two black webbing loops on each side of the back waist with webbing straps threaded through. There are two further loops lower down on each side and extra webbing straps sewn to them.

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      Materials: 50% Cotton 50% Nylon
      Label Details: Craig Green craiggreen.com size L.

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      Part of Craig Green's Autumn Winter 2015 collection, look 29.

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      Part of Craig Green's Autumn Winter 2015 collection, look 29.

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