The Scorcher, our Single Speed London Bicycle. This from Marcus Ross a London photographer who is shooting and editing an exciting new book, London Bike Style: I’m currently working on a piece about fashionable cycling clothes. By this I mean clothes that have been designed to wear whilst riding a bicycle, but are designed with style in mind rather than the old fashioned practical cycling gear. So far I have photographed Rapha, To & Fro, Dashing Tweeds, Cyclodelic, and Cyclechic. The last one I need [...]

On Saturday, the Financial Times featured Guy Hill’s Dashing Tweeds: It’s a fondness for British-made, shared by the Bertie Woosterish entrepreneur Guy Hills, creator of Dashing Tweeds, a collection of vividly patterned textiles that mixes fine wool worsted with light reflective yarn patented as LumaTwill. Appropriately, the face for Dashing Tweeds’ first ready-to-wear design, a swinging cycling cape christened “Yellow Raver” because of its glow-in-the-dark quality, is aristocratic model Iris Palmer, of the gamine Mitfordian 1930s crop and red lipstick. In line with Blow’s approach, [...]

Guy Hills passed by the shop sporting his fabulous Safari Suit. He was accompanied by dapper Gary Fisher, proud owner of a Dashing Tweeds suit, and now of a brass Sogreni bell. Guy left with us his new Dashing gilet and his latest creation: reflective leg warmers. I have been wearing the former for the past three days: it is extremely comfy and effective against the early morning chill; at night it glows. Pictures of the latter coming soon, meanwhile, do come and see them. [...]