13 Feb
The latest release from the overlord of subtle footwear

The latest adidas Originals sneaker comes off as a bit more reserved for Jeremy Scott, who’s made his famed footwear into everything from psychedelic teddy bears to Totem poles. This latest takes adidas’ Instinct High silhouette and brandishes the exaggerated padded tongue with a bold representation of the British flag, aka the Union Jack, leading to the apt […]


The 2012 Summer olympic games are happening in London and New Balance is getting in on the action. The “Road To London” collection imprints red, white, blue, and gold Union Jack colorways onto the 574 and 620 styles using the favorite block print technique. They will be on the rocks, shaken not stirred, on racks in […]


28 Mar
Iconic British label puts all its cliques into collectible figure form

The iconic British label Fred Perry has spurred many a youth movement in its day, starting off as simply a tennis label which was then unknowingly adopted by — and in many ways ended up defining — the mods. The 2tones came after, and soon the label was appropriated by a seemingly incongruous gamut of […]


16 Mar
A UK special wingtip shoe with a touch of distressing

If you’re looking for an all around useful shoe to employ as the weather heats up, you could do far worse than a pair of wingtip brogues. Ben Sherman knows this, so fresh for their Spring/Summer 2012 collection they’re releasing the Qewy Leather Brogues. Now we’re usually not fans of pre-worn out clothing, but these […]


16 Jun
A footwear ode to the Queen and the UK's rich musical history

Clarks Originals, the British shoe manufacturer and retailer based in Somerset, England has introduced a capsule Spring/Summer 2012 collection as an ode to British Rock Royalty. In 1950, Clark’s launched their iconic Desert Boot which went on to be a huge success, and with this British Rock Royalty collection they’re giving it an update. In […]


13 May
Europe’s flagship W opens in London, but can the transatlantic cool of the brand be translated?

The second edition of our Checking In series, Lost In A Supermarket’s quest to cover all things we hold most dear (see our review of the gleaming new Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Hong Kong). In this review we jump continents from Hong Kong’s Ritz — now the highest hotel in the world — to the W Hotel […]


6 Apr
More British love for the British

Fred Perry’s addition to their Union Jack collection, a polo shirt to match the Fred Perry Union Jack Hoodie featured last week. The polo has the same classic appeal you can find in any Fred Perry polo, with white stripes on the ribbing. On the back, however, comes a full English flag stitched into the […]


Just in time for all your summer traveling, Globe Trotter and Hackett have united to design a portmanteau capsule collection of luggage. The impervious hard cases are each lined with a little something special: for the black Mayfair group a Prince of Wales checker liner, blue and white bengal stripe for the London line, and […]