In turn, UK operations were licensed out to The Baird Group (BMB Clothing). completed the sale of Ben Sherman to Marquee Brands, controlled by the US investment group Neuberger Berman for £41m in 2015. In October 2009, Ben Sherman opened a store at 39 Savile Row. of Atlanta purchased the Ben Sherman brand for £80 million (then US $146 million) from 3i and Irish venture capital company Enterprise Equity. In 2000, 3i financed a second management-buyout that created Ben Sherman PLC. In 1993, British investor 3i backed a management buyout of Ben Sherman Limited from Northern Ireland-based Dunkeld fashion group, then in receivership, for £4 million which resulted in the creation of the Sherman Cooper Group. The company passed through a number of hands in the following years. In later years Benjamin Sugarman sold his business in 1975 and retired to Australia.
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īen Sherman remained popular in the late 70s and early 80s as acts including The Jam, The Specials and Madness helped the brand appeal to the mod revival and rude boy movements. The first Ben Sherman store was opened on Brighton's Duke Street in 1967. This acted as the showroom for their shirt and beachwear collections. The Ben Sherman Originals label was created, and by 1965, the company had opened a small office on the upper floors of an office-block in a London backstreet.
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Mods embraced the brand, especially as Sugarman was using higher-quality materials and stitching detail than the imported shirts. He decided to produce a version of these shirts, along with a collection of the colourful, resort-wear vacation clothes that were growing in popularity, in both the U.S. At the time, these were only available from official importers who had, in effect, cornered this market. Sugarman had realised that early 1960s London-based modern jazz fans were eagerly buying the Oxford-collared American button-down shirt brands such as Brooks Brothers, Arrow, and Hathaway, that were worn by visiting American jazz artists including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Canadian jazz artist Oscar Peterson. He married the daughter of a Californian clothes producer and later returned to Brighton, where he established a shirt factory at 21 Bedford Square in 1963. He emigrated to the United States in 1946, via Canada, where he later became a naturalised US citizen.
The company was founded in 1963 by Arthur Benjamin Sugarman (1925–1987), the son of a Jewish salesman, born in Brighton.
In its beginnings in the 1960s, the company made its mark with fashionable short sleeved, button-down collared shirts. Ben Sherman designs sometimes feature the Royal Air Force roundel which is often called the mod target.
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Some photos here of the items to give you an idea, but please do check out the full range of clothing on the Sunspel site right now.Īs I said, everything is available to buy right now, with prices ranging from £75 to £325 depending on what you are looking at.A Ben Sherman shop in Carnaby Street, Londonīen Sherman is a British clothing brand selling shirts, sweaters, suits, outerwear, shoes and accessories predominantly for men. Talking of the collection, that’s made up of a Henley polo (always a Weller fave), a classic polo shirt, a polyester mac, a college jumper, a ringer-style t-shirt and some straight-line trousers. Unlike some past collaborations, it looks like plenty of stock is available for this collection. If you do, it’s on the shelves now, with a full range of sizes available. There is more detail and additional background in this interview with GQ, but the clothing really speaks for itself. The resultant range is described as ‘a very personal take on the staples he sees as the foundation of his wardrobe’. (image credit: Sunspel)Īccording to the Sunspel website, the collaboration with Paul Weller came about ‘after we invited him for a factory visit’. He’s simply created a collection of clothing he would happily wear. I think everyone past the age of 18 or 19 should be in reality when it comes to style. Paul Weller is probably past the stage where he worries about something being Mod or not. Is it Mod? I’d ask if that really mattered. You might recall Sunspel made it into my top 20 Mod labels round-up recently. Much like John Smedley in fact, although the clothing ranges are very different. I also have a lot of time for Sunspel too, a heritage brand that’s still making some classic wardrobe staples. I’ve got a lot of time for Paul Weller, both musically and sartorially. He did one not long back for John Simons and now there’s a Paul Weller for Sunspel clothing collection on the shelves. Note that I independently write and research everything in this article.
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