Flax-Linen Fibre of Civilisarion(s)

Linen has been the underpinning of men’s working dress and men’s fashions, whether practical or industrial, summer or winter. Everything from the farmers’ smock to the officer’s tropical uniform, the sailor’s blouse, and the tailored suit has been cut and constructed from linen. Beginning with men’s shirts and drawers, the very foundation of the clothed body, linen was worn by all classes of men. Within menswear, linen finds no higher standard than the tailoring of London’s Savile Row. For the last 200 years, it has been the measure for menswear worldwide, and the very structure on which it relies is linen. Hand-stitched within every item of bespoke tailoring, linen canvas is what gives a gentleman's jacket its shape, form, and strength.

It's no surprise that linen has inspired generations of designers, given that archetypal workwear in all its forms is the foundation of contemporary men's fashion. Armani’s soft tailoring, Carol Christian Poell’s modern undergarments, and C.P. Company’s Rubber Flax; all have been inspired and seduced by this most enduring of fibres and cloth.