camera has packed up so will break my rule of no stock photos to tell you of my experience with raf x fred.
raf is cool to me because he has great colours and cuts, his silhouettes are some of the best and bang on that modern/slim look which i like, however his pieces never had a spot in my wardrobe. i remember scrolling through his s/s fp collab of this year thinking it was cool but i was still in the "monozone" so could only buy discount silent and docs, but over the last few months or so i have been looking at the fp site occasionally looking for the perfect polo to have some British heritage in my wardrobe always peeping at the raf ones but not being able to justify it. then sale season swung around and they started giving them away at regular fp so i thought now's the time to get some branding on my nipple. when i ordered them i was expecting something slightly above topman but was pleasantly surprised, all the buttons are embossed with the fp reef as well as there being two different types, the care tag is a raf tag imposed with the reef, it has 2 front darts to keep the body fitted, the cut itself is longer and it doesn't even have shitty paper tags! made in Portugal is nice too. i wore it to an nye party with some black jeans and cp mids and it looks v nice.
after pulling a few extra days of over time i didn't expect to be doing and getting through my ny day shift on 3.5 hours sleep icaved and bought this too
i've been looking for a rugby type shirt for a while but what i really wanted was one of these normal button downs with ribbed cuffs like you see soph putting out but i couldn't justify the price. when this presented itself with its price it was too good to be true, the multi coulour dog tooth is a lovely touch. will wear it with 2 butttons undone in the same way i did the polo.
i'm not sure how much 'involved' raf actually is with this collab but it definitely feels like his work, even if it was done by some interns or fp looking through his back catalog. fp and raf seems like a natural combo for that teen angst theme both carry and is one of the main reasons i like raf. the lookbooks are incredible
http://www.rafsimons.com/collections/ra ... rry/aw-13/i also got a raeburn polo in the post which is pretty nifty.