See this as an hors d’oeuvre to whet your appetite for the many men’s fashions that are to follow over the coming month – a very nice line of jumpers by London designer Helen Lawrence, stocked exclusively at Browns. And Ms Lawrence is a lady with a great pedigree when it comes to knitted goods – she long worked with Craig Green and Alexander McQueen on knitwear for their collections, as well as working on her on her own women’s line. But this is the first time creating own-label menswear – 9 brilliant jumpers, all of which we would quite like to be wearing as our office is currently -30 degrees and I am sheltering under a decidedly less glamorous Primark throw. “Adding a fresh take on textiles in the fashionscape,” says the press release, “the Newcastle native is fundamentally interested in the complex unravelling of textural fabrics, as is evident in the 9 distinct and sumptuous knits produced here in the UK, exclusively for Browns.” They’re in store and online now. So go! Run! Buy.
