FRED PERRY BLANK CANVAS

Dazzle your peers with Fred\'s latest eye-catching polo collaboration

Fred Perry continues to serve up eye-catching collaborations, not least their latest team-up with &Sons, the creative practice formed by stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths. Foxton is a consultant to the likes of Levi\'s, Converse and Mandarina Duck, while Griffiths has contributed to American GQ, among others. For the spring/summer 08 Blank Canvas, Fred Perry\'s seventh such project, &Sons came up with these limited-edition polo shirts based, unbelievably, on actual naval \"camouflage\" patterns from the two World Wars (intended to confuse rather than conceal, apparently). The Blank Canvas styles are taken from cubist designs emblazoned on British battleships (designs which became known as \"Dazzle\", for obvious reasons), and are limited to 250 each at £110 a pop. Not exclusive enough? London\'s Dover Street Market has three exclusive hand-painted styles at £160 and just five of each shirt. Whatever coats your boat, as they probably didn\'t say.