Tonight sees the launch of Dalston’s only weekly food night market in the run up to Xmas. Expect more than your typical fayre though as top local restaurants such as the Hawksmoor and Moro show their cuisine at The Long Table. Mix it up with Yum Bun, The Bowler, Big Apple HotDogs for a variety of cultural tastes.

Esquire UK have used our grey button down shirt in the December issue, out now.

Glenn Kitson was chosen as the first participant in the new Number Six & Co series from one of our East london retailers. He chose a few good pieces from our FW11 collection now instore at Number Six.

For more, have a look here.

A little while back a copy of Glenn O’Brien’s new book, How to be a Man, landed on our desks. Best known as the The Style Guy from his column in American GQ, Mr O’Brien is widely regarded as the definitive sartorial sage and master of etiquette. Inside the rather dapper green cover you’ll find advice on a wealth of useful topics that I’m sure many of us will find useful, although we hope some sooner that others, such as how to bow out gracefully, and even a few tips for the afterlife. Lovely.

With the Easter Bank Holiday weekend raidly approaching and with the weather promising to be fine, we thought it would be a good opportunity to break out our line of shirting created with the esteemed fabric mill, Albini.

Established in 1876, Albini take care to responsibly source the finest cottons to produce some fantastic fabrics, which we’ve taken and made into three lovely shirt for you!With all the details you’d expect from Modern Classics, these three shirts feature a button down collar, back pleat and loop and have been finished with elbow patches and wooden buttons.

The summer sunshine has finally arrived here in the UK, and amidst factory visits and the odd spot of travelling for work and a bit of pleasure, we’ve been loving it!

New York was our first stop, checking out some great stores, eating some great (and massive!) food and seeing some awesome sights. Below are a few highlights.

After New York it was Amsterdam, but only briefly. There’s a lot of bikes out there.

We’ve just got back from a little visit to Number Six, just off London’s Brick Lane, as having received their spring delivery of Modern Classics last week, they’ve already stuck us in the window!With the slightly juxtapose theme of the ‘Gentleman Surfer’, you’ll find smartly dressed mannequins propping up a couple of retro style twin fin surfboards, beckoning what feels like a long awaited summer.Bring on the summer, we say!

So the season has got off to a busy start, the collection is dropping all over the shop(s) and we have some great new stores representing for Spring / Summer 2011. Don’t forget that if your local garb merchant didn’t get the memo, many of our stockists ship worldwide, so get clicking!

One of those marvelous stores is HIP in Leeds, who took delivery the new gear last week, and quickly honored it with a rather fetching window display! If your local store hasn’t got it on their rails yet, never fear; it all shipped last week, so it’ll be there soon. In the meantime, the collection has been receiving a lotta love, so let some of the coverage below whet your appetite for what Spring has in store!
HIP;
Free/Man;
Slam x Hype;

The Highrise;
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A belated Happy New Year to you all! After the heavy snows of December, 2011 has got off to a busy start for The Modern Classics Team. It hardly seems like we’ve been back from our Scottish adventure for five minutes, but after much festive excess we’re just about to drop our Spring 2011 collection. With another tight selection of what we believe to be essential pieces for the modern wardrobe, it’s already starting to pop up on blogs such as Selectism, Hypebeast, Free/man Brand and Superfuture, amongst others, so check it out and let us know what you think.Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be off to Berlin to show the buyers our freshly delivered AW11 (!) collection and keeping you up to date with what’s happening as well as the final installments of the Scottish Diary, so keep checking back!

Cheers,

The Modern Classics Team

After settling into the cabin and meeting some of the wildlife, we set about casting our net a little further. With the Isle of Mull just a 40 minute ferry ride away and being host to a whisky distillery and some stunning scenery, as well as the promise of a little cafe serving up some exceptional local seafood, it didn’t take us long to decide where to head.We made the crossing in rather grim conditions, but the lively mix of vibrantly coloured houses you are treated to upon arrival into the small harbour of Tobermory, certainly brightened up the grey day. At the far end of the village lies the Tobermory Whisky Distillery, where you can tour, taste and learn about the history of their own Scotch and the distilling process itself. Not wishing to dive straight in, we began our island exploration with a stroll up to Aros Park; a scenic woodland filled with lochs, waterfalls and an abundance of interesting flora and fauna.Upon returning to the village, we headed straight for Cafe Fish on a local tip-off for some lunch. The Goan Fish Curry and local, roped muscles were absolutely amazing, and went down beautifully with a bottle of Island Pale Ale from Mull’s own brewery!After a good feed, it was back to the distillery for the tour and tasting we’d be waiting for. With an introduction to the island and the history of the distillery (they’ve been making whisky since 1798), we followed the process from the malting of the barley though to its aging in old bourbon and sherry casks, each one playing its part in shaping the character of its contents.

After some thorough research, we can highly recommend the rather peaty 10 year old Ledaig!