Tags: 225th anniversary, Derbyshire, John Smedley
John Smedley celebrate this year their 225th anniversary in the world of luxury knitwear. The Fall-Winter 2009 collection is the outcome of experience and restraint, proposes timeless classics and reaffirms its quality and luxury heritage; at the same time, the high propensity for innovation and a mastery use of colours are the added value of a brand perpetually balanced between tradition and a desire to break with it. The Fall-Winter 2009 men’s line identifies the characteristics that express at best the spirit of John Smedley knitwear: Owl, mature, academic and chic; Raven, an evolved classic; Peacock, the most coloured and eccentric soul of the brand. Also the women’s collection comes in three different styles that can, in different ways, evoke the passion for luxury, tradition and design: from the more classical lines, bound to last over the years, to more experimental proposals both in the fitting and the graphic design. Yet it is particularly the children’s line that best combines the style and functionality that have always characterised John Smedley: bright colours enliven items in valuable merino, which owe their softness to their immersion in the precious waters of Derbyshire. Since 1784 John Smedley have been the creators of high quality products, rigorously ‘made in England’. The very garments are to this day sewn by hand to the rest of the item, along with 35 other hand crafted processes, and the impeccable result they can obtain makes John Smedley an icon of style that transcends time.