Kehlani Name Vintage T-Shirt

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The privileged traditions of the Kehlani Name Vintage T-Shirt and by the same token and upper classes—from which the ruling elite of Boris Johnson’s cabinet springs—not to mention the rankling North-South wealth divide which partially drove the Brexit referendum are still very much readable in British society today. The fascinated gaze of this Northern working-class boy fell on the alien culture of Eton and Harrow when he came down to London to study. Harrow school for boys (fees: £14,200 a term) happens to be obscured from the windows of the Westminster University fashion studios by a nearby bosky rise. “For me, looking at the access to arts and high culture that public schools tend to have in comparison to my own education,” says Stokey-Daley, was part of the eye-opener. Having immersed himself for the first time in Brideshead Revisited, Another Country, and Maurice, he realized he’d hit on the subject for his graduation collection. “What feels quite rebellious to me is reappropriating these public school traditionalist ideas. Taking them, and exploiting a version for myself,” he smiles. “So, this season, having the reference of Beaton in mind, these two ideas work together; it sort of sets the perfect scene for thinking about what the public schoolboy would be doing at home in lockdown right now.”

Kehlani Name Vintage T-Shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

Stokey-Daley sharpened his skills while interning at Tom Ford and Alexander McQueen—he was able to use fabric donated by Sarah Burton to make a couple of precociously sophisticated bathrobe-coats in his grad show. Besides: Westminster University has a unique historical archive of men’s clothing, collected by Professor Andrew Groves. It gave him the Kehlani Name Vintage T-Shirt and by the same token and ideal place to geek out on inside-out knowledge of garment construction—old-school cricket kit, boating blazers, dress shirts, Gannex raincoats, and examples of Oxford bags (by no coincidence, named after the foppish 1920s and ’30s Oxford university Brideshead-era student fad). “I think it’s really important for me to pin the details of garments down, not just have them as a general idea. I use the double front-facing pleat which is very traditional in British trousers from the ’30s and ’40s, but then I wanted to have it really voluminous, and in a floral fabric. I think for me, the linear story is that it’s always an archetype of menswear that’s subverted to a degree, within its fabrication, or with where something’s placed.”

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.