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Two for the Road: Photos from Summer in Europe

The Drake’s summer tailoring lookbook, featuring new season unstructured double-breasted Italian suiting, cut from a textured linen cloth, with a four-button fastening, a slightly bellied lapel, patch hip pockets with our signature patch ticket pocket, and our signature soft shoulder. Paired here with a medallion print pure silk tie, a flash of colour with green cotton socks, and our Goodyear welted Charles loafer in black leather.

The Drake’s summer tailoring lookbook. A look at some of the tonal details from our latest collection, featuring shades of beige, ecru and olive, along with new footwear from our friends at Paraboot. Ideal for the start of warmer weather. Head to drakes.com to see more.

Introducing our latest lookbook, celebrating warmer weather and a fresh approach to summer tailoring. Featuring a collection of sartorial-leaning single and double-breasted classics, highlights include plenty of premium Irish linen, including some softer palettes of ecru and beige—ideal for Tuscan weddings or mixed and matched during hotter days in the city—alongside our signature relaxed Games tailoring in antique linen, including a summery black tie-appropriate MKV iteration. Styled with a range of Drake’s Made in Somerset shirts, pure silk ties featuring archival prints, and Goodyear-welted shoes, we wanted to celebrate the versatility of suiting for when the temperature rises. Head to drakes.com to see more.

Explore the Summer Tailoring Lookbook

Inside the Drake’s workshop in East London, where we’re proud to still make our signature pure silk ties using a steady hand and traditional techniques. Head to drakes.com to see our latest range of Perennial and new season ties and accessories.

Hironari Mochida, from our friends at Beams F, for Drake’s Perennials in Tokyo. Mr Mochida wears our Mk. I Games blazer in navy corduroy, layered with the knitted polo shirt in merino wool, classic ticking striped Oxford shirt, and pure silk tie, made in our London workshop. Perennials. Here today, here tomorrow.

We are excited to be coming back to Paris. Join us at 98 Rue de Turenne from 9th-11th of May for our latest Pop-Up, where our new collection and core range of Perennial products will be available, alongside Made to Order tailoring, shirts and ties. Members of our Savile Row team will be on-hand to guide through the new range of fabrics and products, available to order in-store for home delivery. If you’d like to arrange an MTO fitting, please contact us at madetoorder@drakes.com See you there!

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Yoichi Takada for Drake’s Perennials in Tokyo. For the latest Perennials campaign—our year-round collection that comprises a classic Drake’s wardrobe, the staples and timeless go-tos that will never go out of style—we gathered a group of friends, old and new, in a city that means a great deal to us: Tokyo. There are artists, chefs, entrepreneurs—as well as flâneurs—a surfboard shaper and the scion of a generation-spanning traditional Japanese sandal workshop. Some are wearing new clothes, others well-loved suits, ties and shirts that have been worn 100 times or more. Everyone has their own way of wearing Drake’s, which is just how we like it. These are clothes for life.

At some point in the past 50 years, the konbini became irrevocably tangled into the cultural fabric of Japan writes Ashley Ogawa Clarke, a Tokyo resident. It is the concept of convenience crystallised into one destination, a place where you can buy lunch, use the toilet, ATM or printer, pay your utility bills, or post a package. In the city, you’re seemingly never more than a few meters from one—like rats, but more pleasant.  One’s konbini preference in Japan is treated as a totemic indicator of personality, like the Myers & Briggs test. Mostly what inspires loyalty to one is in the small personal preferences, like a particular coffee order or a type of onigiri. For my part I am a happily disloyal customer, a konbini syncretist who plays the field with no strings attached. After visiting what must be thousands, I have found there to be little that separates the overall experience. I have been the drunk foreigner in his early twenties rushing in to buy more Sapporo beer or Strong Zero to sup in the street. I have also been the guy who rolls his eyes at that guy queuing up to buy a cold bottle of mugicha. Maybe one day I’ll be the old man that hobbles in to buy a “One Cup” of sake and a packet of Hi-Lites. Head to drakes.com to find out more about how these little supermarkets became a key part of a country’s identity.

Our friend Shu Ikeuchi likes to joke that he is the ‘ultimate salaryman.’ A consultant and creative strategist with boundless energy, he appears in our Tokyo Perennials campaign wearing his own five-pocket chore jacket in premium suede, along with a polka dot bandana and spread collar shirt in bright navy linen. Perennials. Here today, here tomorrow.

Introducing New Italian-Made Swim Shorts

The Drake’s Mk II Charles loafer in black calf leather. The successor to our signature smart-meets-everyday loafer, the second edition is elevated with a new hand grade construction, refined silhouette and a sophisticated single sole design, using closed channel stitching and our signature painted bevelled waist. Goodyear-welted and assembled by hand in Northampton, the home of British shoemaking, the Charles is our vision of a timeless piece of footwear.

Yuji Horii, artist and craftsman, for Drake’s Perennials in Tokyo, wearing the Work jacket in stone wash denim. Drawing inspiration from vintage archival examples from the ’30s and ’40s, it has a cropped, boxy shape for mobility, and working gauntlet cuffs that can be rolled up should the need arise for any serious graft.  Alongside the work jacket, Yuji wears textured cotton chinos, Drake’s jersey, and our signature Clifford boot in Italian suede.

New York, New York. In a studio somewhere deep in Brooklyn, full of (nearly) priceless audio equipment and big windows, we spent the afternoon with Cassandra Jenkins, a multi-hyphenate musician wearing Made to Order Drake’s tailoring in black wool crepe, along with our Perennial Mk. I Games suit in soft and sturdy corduroy. Having worn her own Drake’s MTO during a recent tour across America and Europe, Cassandra riffs on the more traditional codes of menswear to create her own unique stage uniform. If you’re after your own one of a kind Drake’s suit, for touring... or for anything else, then please come and see the team at 327 Canal St store, or email us at madetoorder@drakes.com.

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