There’s something about sitting poolside on holiday that just seems to encourage big thinking. Maybe you’ll start charting a new course for your life, or you’ll be surprised when a brilliant business idea seems to saunter into your mind fully formed. Perhaps it’s being removed from the stresses of your everyday routine that allows your brain to meander – or just the heady commingled scent of chlorine and sunscreen.
Indeed, Orlebar Brown founder Adam Brown can trace the inspiration for his game-changing swimwear brand back to a trip to northwest India. It was 2005, and he had been working in the voluntary sector before pivoting to photography, but he “hadn’t really found what I wanted to do, and didn't have any particular purpose in life”, he says.
