JEREMY’S JOURNEY
Jeremy Hackett left school at 16, and with his father’s words ringing in his ears ‘if you don’t pull your socks up you’ll end up working in a shop’, he took a job in a local clothing store in Bristol then moved to London, working
in clothing in King’s Road finally securing a job in a tailor’s establishment on Savile Row selling, cutting and learning the tailoring trade. Spurred on when exploring the Portobello Road markets and the Clignacourt flea markets in Paris and being asked to buy clothing for a dealer in second hand hunting and shooting clobber, he decided he would
open a shop at the ‘wrong end’ of fashionable and ‘happening’ King’s Road in the Chelsea district and sell handcrafted second hand tailored clothing. One of his best customers was Ralph Lauren who stuffed laundry bags full of his clothes, inspiration no doubt for his collections. In hindsight, Jeremy says ‘I think of us as old England and Ralph as New England — we both draw from an old culture’ The rest is history, as they say.
The bumpy road to success has made Jeremy the definitive icon of British clothing culture, well deserving of the title ‘Mr Classic’ and certainly one of Henry Bucks’ favourite suppliers. Over dinner at Easy Tiger in Smith Street he told us he was an adopted child; he traced his birth mother to Melbourne quite recently and visits her often. He discovered in her the refined English elegance he had searched for all his adult life. In her he discovered the truth and endorsement of his love of aristocratic quality, tradition and style.
Jeremy is wearing his own cotton suits, made for him in Italy by Hackett, and as his visit to Melbourne was in December his wardrobe was certainly for an Australian summer.
Hackett is a classic British clothing and accessories brand which caters for the head to toe needs of men of all ages who wish to dress stylishly and to whom quality is more important than the vagaries of fashion.
Hackett takes its inspiration from the traditions of British dress without being old fashioned and as such its products are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Parts of the range are much the same as they were twenty years ago, but as Jeremy Hackett says, “our clothes wear in not out”.
Hackett’s aim is to dress men for any occasion whether it is business, formal, country or sporting and it is perfectly encapsulated under the strap-line Essential British Kit.
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