The making of the 'Clerkenwell' jacket by Wallace Sewell, Gieves & Hawkes and Designtex

Bringing together great textile brands, we paired Wallace Sewell's upholstery fabric with Gieves & Hawkes' tailoring know-how

By Jack Moss
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Tasked with making a jacket out of Wallace Sewell's bold new upholstery fabric collection for Wallpaper* Handmade 2014, Gieves & Hawkes chose to create a boating jacket out of 'Clerkenwell'. This striped wool sateen fabric is made in collaboration with Designtex and woven at the Hield Brothers textile mill in West Yorkshire.

Jack Moss
Fashion Features Editor

Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.

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