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Thom Browne takes flight in New York with feathers, herons and magpies
Fashion grandee takes his love of a suit step further with oversized embroidered jackets in British-made tweeds
Jackets and coats in British-made tweeds, their proportions tweaked rather than distorted, were charmingly embroidered with herons and magpies drawn from the luscious watercolours of John J Audubon’s Birds of America anthology. But the skewed proportions of Browne’s suiting, with their tight sleeves and short legs, are a wink to camera by which the wearer tells the world that they are game for taking risks. Every man who wears his trousers slightly cropped, so that a flash of sock is visible above his shoes, owes his look to Browne, who has based his career on the deliberately awkward proportions of the grey suits he has been selling since 2001.
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