A mammoth trip was organised to Aberdeenshire were a young colt had been spotted – Athen’s Mumbo Jumbo. An Uncle of David’s – John Pocklington – had imported this legendary sire from abroad and upon his death this line was lost from Lincolnshire. We made the decision that an ultimate dream would be to continue the great Graf Magna line. In 2005 our stud business took on a new role. Our foundation stallion ‘Resident Gypsy’, who we sadly lost in 2014 had been in the family since birth and was the beginning of what you will see here today. Everyone's happy.This year is the 17th birthday of our first youngsters. He ships out the surplus Porter transmogrifies the materials into backpacks they fly off the shelves. The same elevation of the functional shaped his new "remade" initiative with the Japanese bag company Porter.
But Raeburn printed it as an elegant mosaiclike pattern on a gabardine mac. This time it was, logically enough, the desert lizard.
For example, Raeburn personalizes each season with a creature of some kind-rabbit, badger, and so on. Or maybe he's just more conscious of being a fashion designer. He's getting better at that kind of alchemy.
Strictly utilitarian though it may have been in its original form, Raeburn printed it with satellite imagery of the desert to give it an almost exotic feel. The foundation of the collection was a water-resistant stretch fabric called Schoeller. Raeburn used the camo-patterned material in a fully reversible parka (its other side featured a hunting mesh). Here, Raeburn was inspired by a WWII unit called the Long Range Desert Group, which meant that the show title, Sandstorm, also tweaked associations with Desert Storm, particularly when the designer explained that his remade items were remodeled from original rubberized cotton tents that would once have been used in the Middle East. Of course, the desert has always had its own romance. That was one way to read pieces tailored from army mesh colored an unlikely shade of mint green, or a pink derived from desert camouflage. Christopher Raeburn's creative repurposing of surplus military garb has quietly produced one of contemporary British menswear's most striking statements, made even more so by the polish that has steadily crept into the collection, along with-impossible to miss this season-a peculiar kind of poetry.
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