Mackintosh










<<…On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
And the banker never wears a mack
In the pouring rain, very strange…>>
Penny Lane - Beatles
 
Mackintosh soprabito moda
 
The history of Scotland is the peculiar result of the endless, bloody struggles between countless families belonging to different clans; since King Malcolm IV's accession to the throne in 1160, the Mackintoshes have been more and more strongly linked with the Royal Family, to the extent that some say they are their direct descendants.
A fate written in the very name ‘the son of Toiseach', a chief, a leader: of a line of men bound to be prominent both on the political and the military scene. A Mackintosh always in the front line: at war, in the medical field, in literary circles, up to Charles who created the item of clothing whose name the firm still bears today.
 
In 1823, in fact, Mackintosh succeeded in patenting a rainproof material, obtained by gumming two layers of fabric with a solution of rubber in naphtha. In the span of a few years he perfected his invention to the extent that he was able to produce garments out of it and realised the ‘Mackintosh' which went down in history as the raincoat ‘par excellence'.
Early in the XX century the ‘Mackintosh' was redesigned and the number of models increased considerably: today it comes in the trench versions, in the ones in military style with belt, in the raincoats and in the short models.
   Mackintosh
 
Full backgrounds, colour textures and motifs, soft but precise lines, timeless details which, thanks to their charm, still make the items unmistakably....Scottish, of course.


txt Alessandro D’Annibale
Photo: Fabio Gambina