Guys wearing E Tauts S/S 2015 collection. The guy on the left is wearing a brown coloured shirt with matching jacket and wide brown pants. The guy in the middle is wearing a white shirt, navy tie, brown striped jacket and brown overcoat and the guy on the right is wearing a brown striped green jacket
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Patrick Grant has pushed further away from the sartorial heritage of E Tautz season by season, flexing his own design muscle by mixing the sporting history of his adopted label with a personal, urban sensibility that showed serious promise for S/S 2015. Vagaries of working-class Brighton tourists were incorporated into his no-nonsense line up of black, navy, taupe and toffee brown separates (that's right, barely a single straight-up suit), an idea of bleak seaside summers that included wide, rolled-up raw denim for wading in the shallows, and flared, tailored shorts striped like deckchairs. Utility outerwear added to his worker's tale; topstitched jean jackets, zipped Harringtons and roomy parkas came in a sporty mix of gabardines, flyaway silk nylon and flat cool wool - their full proportions often balanced with a cropped trouser or bare legs and a tricked-out sandal boot.

Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

Three guys wearing E Tauts S/S 2015 collection. The guy on the left is wearing a blue shirt, navy jacket and white and navy striped pants. The guy in the middle is wearing a knitted navy jersey with 2 white stripes and the guy on the right is wearing a navy jersey and a navy and white striped pants

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Four guys wearing E Tauts S/S 2015 collection. The guy on the left is wearing a white and navy shirt with a denim. Next to him the two guys are wearing white and navy striped shirts with a denim jacket and on the right the guy is wearing a denim jacket and navy and white striped pants

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Three guys wearing E Tauts S/S 2015 collection. The guy on the left is wearing a navy shirt and brown jacket. Next to him the guy is wearing brown pants with denim shirt and sunglasses and on the right the guy is wearing a blue and white stripe shirt with denim jacket and denim pants

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Three guys wearing E Tauts S/S 2015 collection. The guy on the left is wearing a navy jersey and navy and white striped pants. The guy n the middle is wearing a navy and white striped shirt with navy pants and the guy on the right is wearing a white shirt and a navy striped suit with a navy and white striped jacket over his suit

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)