Smedley Knitwear. Sticking to its knitting for 225 years and seven generations

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by admin.

Two and a quarter centuries after John Smedley and his associate Peter Nightingale founded a small mill at Lea Bridge in Matlock, Derbyshire, this iconic, extraordinary spinner and knitter is still going strong. It was the beginning of the industrial revolution in progressive England and from producing muslin and spinning cotton to send out to [...]

Continue Reading

Maurizio Baldassari

Posted on 17. Apr, 2010 by admin.

CASHMERE JACKET FROM MAURIZIO BALDASSARI
Maurizio Baldassari’s was born on the Ligurian coast in Italy and was inspired by his spectacular environment. The sharp scents of the Ligurian vegetation taught him about measure, about the depth of sensations. The wind off the sea taught him about the softness of forms and he saw the horizon as [...]

Continue Reading

IMG – International Menswear Group

Posted on 16. Apr, 2010 by admin.

Henry Bucks as a global retailer
Henry Bucks is a member of the globally influential International Menswear Group (IMG) founded in 1958 in Western Europe and whose intimate and intricate network now reaches across every corner of the fashion retailing world

The IMG is an exclusive club of like minded family retailers who share ideas, figures, [...]

Continue Reading

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation

Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by admin.

It’s very fair and diverse.”
A talented pianist, Tim Cecil’s hands once doubled in a movie for those of a child actor playing a musical prodigy. Now, in his role as managing director of Henry Bucks menswear store, those same hands are responsible for selecting merchandise for the business his great-grandfather started in 1890. Henry Bucks [...]

Continue Reading

Tim Cecil in conversation with Paolo Zegna

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by admin.

This year Ermenegildo Zegna celebrates its Centennial. The Zegna story is an extraordinary one, and not the least of its success is due to the quiet, calm, sophisticated and disarmingly charming influence and dedication of founder Michelangelo Zegna’s great grandson Paolo Zegna.
Paolo in his discreet and modest manner never mentions his full title, Count Paolo [...]

Continue Reading

Family Duet

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by admin.

The most-recorded living classic musician, Sir Neville Marriner, conducted the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra in the new Melbourne Recital Centre in what was a stellar event in 2009, the new centre’s first year of operation. Sir Neville is Patron of the MCO whose leader is his long-time friend, renowned Melbourne violinist William Hennessy.  Sir Neville’s extraordinary [...]

Continue Reading

Henry Bucks Bespoke Shop

Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by admin.

Henry Bucks was established in 1890 as a made-to-measure shirt and blouse shop and the traditions have continued.
We still make shirts to measure in Australia and have since added bespoke clothing, made in Melbourne by our master tailor; bespoke clothing made to order by Canali in Italy; bespoke shoes hand made by Hilary Freeman’s traditional [...]

Continue Reading

Henry Bucks visits ‘Pitti Immagine Uomo’ Florence

Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by admin.

Just returned a couple of weeks ago from the Florence ‘Pitti Immagine Uomo’ definitive men’s fashion show for our winter 2011 but of course for Europe’s winter 2010. Three of us went. Both the Tim Cecils and Paolo Michelini. Pitti was quite busy and there seems a renewed confidence, albeit a cautious one. Retailers are [...]

Continue Reading

Klop Championships

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by admin.

Details are a little sketchy, but it is thought that noise was an important feature of Klop’s early days. Woodsmen from Carelia, near the Finnish-Russian border, would carve the blocks from the birch forests and fling them around erratically, breaking the enduring silence.
Apart from being tremendous fun, legend has it that the sharp sound the [...]

Continue Reading