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LIVING ARTWORK: TURNBULL & ASSER & MO COPPOLETTA FOR THE RAKE PRINTED DENIM DRESS SHIRTS

Source: Navy velvet smoking jacket, Turnbull & Asser; Mo Coppoletta London industrial print pleat-front denim dinner shirt, Turnbull & Asser for The Rake; navy velvet bow tie, Turnbull & Asser; white and blue piped pocket square, Turnbull & Asser for The Rake.

“It is the unstable nature of denim — the fact that it fades, shows signs of age and wear, tells the story of your interaction with it, and becomes a physical repository of your memories — that makes it so fascinating as a material,” says Dean Gomilsek-Cole, Turnbull & Asser’s Head of Design. And what you should know is that, although he heads the single-most fabled British shirtmaker, holder of a Royal Warrant and outfitter to ever iconic British men, from Winston Churchill to the Prince of Wales, Gomilsek-Cole and the other denizens of Turnbull & Asser are rooted in the prevailing aesthetics of the modern world and in possession

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