COMPLIMENTARY, pattern matched pocket square for the first 30 preorder purchasers.
Cut from 100% premium organic cotton sateen, with a semi-tailored fit designed to flatter a wide range of body shapes. Each shirt is handcrafted in Turkey by the same specialist factory we’ve worked with for over eight years, and finished with a classic cutaway collar and mitred cuffs. The cotton has a subtle natural sheen that gives our prints their depth and richness. Distinctive by design, beautifully made, and built to be worn for years.
Design Story
Iain Tyrrell has spent more than thirty years restoring and authenticating some of the best cars ever built, work he now documents to 216,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, Tyrrell's Classic Workshop. He was twelve when he first saw the classic film "The Italian Job". The orange car in the opening four minutes never quite let go of him.
Forty years later, a friend rang and asked, almost in passing, whether he had any interest in acquiring it. He did. It was a Lamborghini Miura, chassis 3586, sitting in a covert basement car park in Paris. And in collaboration with one of his clients, Iain got to work.
What followed was an intense amount of forensic work. The shooting dates for the opening sequence were a matter of record, which ruled out anything built after them. From there Iain worked through the small changes the factory made in the car's first months of production, the steering wheel, the door trims, the seats, the badge, and matched each one against stills from the film. The embossing on the headrest told him it was a factory leather interior of a specification almost no car of that period had. The driver's seat did not match it, which turned out to be exactly what he would expect. Build records, delivery dates, even the hand stitching, all of it lined up.
The car was trailered to his workshop in the UK, where he went through it properly. Later it was shipped to Italy, and Iain drove it along the same Alpine pass that made it famous. The factory eventually confirmed what he had already proven.
Fanatica came out of that. We asked artist Jenn Morgan to put the obsession onto canvas, four feet by six, filled with instrument dials, cutaway engines, carburettor stacks and clutch plates in loose blueprint line. The shared anatomy of every fast Italian car of the period. Our design lead, Alastair Sweet, pulled the pieces that earned their place and ran a period orange through them.
A print built from the anatomy of an actual obsession, not an illustrator's idea of one. Wear it and someone will eventually ask what the gauges and diagrams are about. Tell them about the man who found the car. This print design took, literally, 18 months of development work. Great work takes time. We are grateful for Iain's patience.
Fanatica is an original artwork created with Iain Tyrrell, inspired by the classic car world. It is not licensed by, endorsed by or connected with any vehicle manufacturer or film studio.
Iain Tyrrell has spent more than thirty years restoring and authenticating some of the best cars ever built, work he now documents to 216,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, Tyrrell's Classic Workshop. He was twelve when he first saw the classic film "The Italian Job". The orange car in the opening four minutes never quite let go of him.
Forty years later, a friend rang and asked, almost in passing, whether he had any interest in acquiring it. He did. It was a Lamborghini Miura, chassis 3586, sitting in a covert basement car park in Paris. And in collaboration with one of his clients, Iain got to work.
What followed was an intense amount of forensic work. The shooting dates for the opening sequence were a matter of record, which ruled out anything built after them. From there Iain worked through the small changes the factory made in the car's first months of production, the steering wheel, the door trims, the seats, the badge, and matched each one against stills from the film. The embossing on the headrest told him it was a factory leather interior of a specification almost no car of that period had. The driver's seat did not match it, which turned out to be exactly what he would expect. Build records, delivery dates, even the hand stitching, all of it lined up.
The car was trailered to his workshop in the UK, where he went through it properly. Later it was shipped to Italy, and Iain drove it along the same Alpine pass that made it famous. The factory eventually confirmed what he had already proven.
Fanatica came out of that. We asked artist Jenn Morgan to put the obsession onto canvas, four feet by six, filled with instrument dials, cutaway engines, carburettor stacks and clutch plates in loose blueprint line. The shared anatomy of every fast Italian car of the period. Our design lead, Alastair Sweet, pulled the pieces that earned their place and ran a period orange through them.
A print built from the anatomy of an actual obsession, not an illustrator's idea of one. Wear it and someone will eventually ask what the gauges and diagrams are about. Tell them about the man who found the car. This print design took, literally, 18 months of development work. Great work takes time. We are grateful for Iain's patience.
Fanatica is an original artwork created with Iain Tyrrell, inspired by the classic car world. It is not licensed by, endorsed by or connected with any vehicle manufacturer or film studio.
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