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1932-1990
Raincoat manufacturer, Birmingham.
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nd [1983-1995]
Italian label from the 1980s and 1990s. Advertising for the label dates from around 1983 to the 1990s and it was manufactured by Reflections [Diffusion] Srl, advertised as available from their showroom at Corso di Porta Vigentina, 6, Milano. Reflections also manufactured for labels such as Martine Sitbon. Piero Panchetti was stocked by the Woodhouse chain of shops in the UK in 1985 and Joe Casely-Hayford worked for Piero Panchetti as a freelance creative director in the late 1980s, early 1990s.
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1969-
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1985-
Fashion designer Dirk Bikkembergs (1962-) studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. He began Dirk Bikkembergs-Homme Co. in 1985 after serving in the army and working as a freelance designer. He was associated with the 'Antwerp 6', a group of designers with varying styles and individual design aesthetics who emerged from Belgium in the mid-1980s.
He became known for his footwear, especially his boots, and developed a design which removed the eyelet holes for laces and drilled a hole through the heel. He launched his first women's wear line in 1993.
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1984-2002
Johnny Moke was a label and shop at 396 King's Road, Chelsea which was started by Johnny Moke (John Joseph Rowley, 1945-2009). Moke had begun his career in fashion with Mick Oram selling antique clothes from the Granny Takes A Trip store on the King's Road in 1967. In the 1970s he began designing shoes and clothes, trading from different locations in Chelsea and Kensington Market before opening his eponymous shop in 1984 to sell his shoe designs. The store closed in 2002.
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1985-
Highlander is an outdoor clothing company which was begun by Bahram Golzari in Edinburgh. He was a member of the university mountaineering club and took over an outdoor supply shop in the city when it was about to close down. Much of the gear supplied was military surplus but he began designing new gear under the name Highlander, reflecting Scottish mountaineering heritage. They have two main lines: outdoor for mountaineering, hiking and camping, and forces which is kit aimed at military force professionals.
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Savile Row tailor Stovel & Mason was incorporated in 1927, but was in existence before that date (they advertised as a military tailor in 1914). It is unclear exactly when the company dissolved but in 2005 its premises at 32 Old Burlington Street were taken over by Anderson & Sheppard.
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1815-2000
Meridian was the trade mark of J. B. Lewis Ltd which was founded in 1815 by James Blount Lewis in Nottingham. Between 1911 and 1929 they had the UK rights to produce a new interlock knitted fabric which established them as a major underwear manufacturer. Various versions of their 'Meridian' and 'Meridian Double Lock' trade marks were registered between 1911 and 1954. In 1951 the company changed its name to Meridian Ltd to take advantage of the popularity of the Meridian trade mark. They were known for underwear, knitwear, leisure-wear, swimwear and jersey. The company was purchased by Courtaulds in 1963.
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1932-1977
Weaver to Wearer Limited was a multiple tailoring label, the retail division of manufacturers Town Tailors Ltd, established by Hector Mackenzie Frazer in about 1932. They had tailoring stores across the United Kingdom while the suits were made in factories in Leeds and Castleford. They were the cheapest of the Leeds-based multiples, for example during the 1930s they sold suits for 30 shillings, with a pair of shoes included. In 1954 they were taken over by GUS (Great Universal Stores) who also owned men's tailoring firms John Temple and Neville Reed. From the mid-1960s GUS turned many of the Weaver to Wearer stores into Neville Reed shops and the company was dissolved in 1977.