FRED PERRY BLANK CANVAS
Dazzle your peers with Freds 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 Levis, Converse and Mandarina Duck, while Griffiths has contributed to American GQ, among others. For the spring/summer 08 Blank Canvas, Fred Perrys 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? Londons Dover Street Market has three exclusive hand-painted styles at £160 and just five of each shirt. Whatever coats your boat, as they ...
Adopt a Reason to Exercise
Living near a park makes you twice as likely to exercise, says the American Journal of Health Promotion. Its easy to be motivated when you see activity around you, says Craig Ballantyne, C.S.C.S., a personal trainer in Toronto. Don live near a park? Tap into canine inspiration. A Canadian study found that dog owners exercise more than their poochless peers. Labrador retrievers and German shorthaired pointers both make good running ...
