Nigel Cabourn obituary
Influential designer of men’s clothes who was inspired by workwear, military kit and expeditionary gear“I’m like a big giant sieve of history and I just turn it into the clothes,” said Nigel Cabourn of the inspiration for his decades of quietly influential designs for men’s clothes. To Cabourn, who has died aged 76, history meant war – his grandfather’s memories of trenches in the first world war, his father’s stories of Burma in the second, even his own awareness of…
Source: www.theguardian.com