Behind the Seams
More young talent to join the Emma Willis Atelier
Our Gloucester creative team goes from strength to strength, with no need for agencies to find local talent, as we can happily recruit from within, with children joining or children’s friends. In A...
Linen has become an integral part of most of our wardrobes now, carried in on the wave of more relaxed dressing, the most planet-friendly of all fabrics and our hotter and hotter weather. It is, of...
Are you a slow, careful Summer holiday packer, or do you pack last-minute and hurl hastily chosen shirts, t-shirts, swimming trunks, sports stuff, hats and sunglasses into your case to emerge crump...
Woven in Italy in my favourite specialist linen mill Solbiati, we bought several of this Summer’s collection in the subtle herringbone weave, in soft natural colours. The weave adds character and b...
Who Makes Our T-Shirts & Trousers
As I have watched the tide turning to less formal but not necessarily less elegant dressing, our young cutters and seamstresses have trained to apply the same attention to detail and beautiful stit...
Our Best Dressed Friend, Nature...
Shades of brown would have been hard to find in London’s Jermyn Street 20, or even 10 years ago. While the traditional suit, shirt, and tie have not disappeared but have been joined by more relaxed...
How exciting it is to see that sudden bright blue of a kingfisher's wings flashing past so fast you are not sure if you actually saw or imagined it. Each year, when I buy linen for the season ahead...
The perfect white shirt must be one of the most important pieces of clothing in any man’s and even many women’s wardrobe and one of the most versatile. Even with potentially fewer days in the offic...
One of the most successful shirt advertisements ever created was a picture of a woman in a man’s shirt, with the headline ‘Looks even better on a man’. Women of course, can look so good in a man’s ...
Shirt making and tailoring are very different crafts so when we prepared for this Summer’s photo shoot celebrating linen, we needed to design trousers which kept with our soft construction and ways...