By dint of regularly going shopping with @adriana872 I recently acquired a Paul Smith suit-jacket and waistcoat at a very reasonable price, from (I shall call it) a “boutique” store in South Ken; the lady behind the counter filled-in my utter lack of knowledge saying that Paul Smith is “a very lovely man”, and that “when he dies [I] don’t know what the British fashion industry will do, but the jacket will probably go up in value by quite a bit” and that I was buying a “collector’s piece”.
I have since also been educated in the matter of distictive stripes and colour in Paul Smith’s designs.
What I’ll bet that neither of them know is that he is also a racing-cycle fiend who does hands-free trackstands:
…that he designed a couple of bikes for Mercian because “Paul Smith fell into fashion aged 17 after a cycling accident put an end to his hopes of becoming a professional racing cyclist. He proudly rode his Mercian bike through the Derby countryside and still has the bike today. ”
The bikes aren’t my sort of thing, but they’re lovely… and at least one person I know will be happy that they are Campag throughout.
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