Pioneering fashion designer who mixed traditional tailoring with looks from the London street Like all great tailors, Joe Casely-Hayford was an outsider who observed how men define their personal identities and pledge group allegiances; the personal is the political and there is nothing more personal than the four metres of cloth in the average male outfit. He liked to cite his great-grandfather Joseph Casely-Hayford's 1911 book, Ethiopia Unbound, because it was about "duality and double-conscio...
Pioneering fashion designer who mixed traditional tailoring with looks from the London street Like all great tailors, Joe Casely-Hayford was an outsider who observed how men define their personal identities and pledge group allegiances; the personal is the political and there is nothing more personal than the four metres of cloth in the average male outfit. He liked to cite his great-grandfather Joseph Casely-Hayford's 1911 book, Ethiopia Unbound, because it was about "duality and double-conscio...
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