Nigel Cabourn obituary

Influential designer of mens clothes who was inspired by workwear, military kit and expeditionary gearIm like a big giant sieve of history and I just turn it into the clothes, said Nigel Cabourn of the inspiration for his decades of quietly influential designs for mens clothes. To Cabourn, who has died aged 76, history meant war - his grandfathers memories of trenches in the first world war, his fathers stories of Burma in the second, even his own awareness of the US M65 field jacket and other u...