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GREAT BRITAIN - FIRST HORSE TWEED SUIT
Massgeschneidert: Designermode für Rennpferde / 040316 ***
The world’s first Harris Tweed suit designed specifically for a race horse has been revealed The new equestrian fashion range, modelled by veteran race horse Morestead, features a three-piece suit complete with shirt, tie and flat cap. The horse outfit was specially commissioned by leading bookmaker William Hill, who tasked former Alexander McQueen apprentice, Emma Sandham-King, with creating a stylish Harris Tweed suit to celebrate the start of the 2016 Cheltenham Festival in the UK. ***
[Emma Sandham-King and her team of seamstresses and tailors, spent 4 weeks creating the enormous tailored three-piece suit using over 18 metres of genuine tweed shipped from the Isle of Harris. The custom made suit has been created with ten times as much fabric as an equivalent human suit. William Hill enlisted stats boffin Dr Geoff Ellis who calculated that enough tweed is worn at Cheltenham Festival to stretch all the way from the historic racecourse to Ireland. Dr Ellis studied 32 large scale crowd photos from the festival to cross examine the amount of tweed on show, finding that on average 200 miles and seven furlongs (321.5 km) of tweed are worn every year by spectators.That’s enough tweed to stretch one and a half times around every horse race track in Britain and Ireland. This year is likely to see more tweed worn than since the industry’s heyday in the 1960’s with Tweed gracing the catwalks at last year’s New York, Paris and London Fashion Weeks. Emma Sandham-King, who has worked with Alexander McQueen commented: “Creating the world’s first tweed suit for a horse has been one of the biggest challenges that I have faced in my career as a designer. “We have used 18 metres of genuine Harris Tweed to create the head turning fashion garment. “Some models can be real divas, but veteran racing horse Morestead was calm and a pleasure to work with.]
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15 Martie 2016 |
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