Earlier this year, Charlie Casely-Hayford had been going through his father’s archive for Somerset House’s ‘The Missing Thread’, which aims to tell the untold stories of Black British designers and their influence on the wider fashion scene, from 1970s to present day. Joe Casely-Hayford, Charlie’s father, was a revered tailor and designer, who led Savile Row stalwart Gieves & Hawkes in the early 2000s, and would later – prior to his death in 2019 – establish the Casely-Hayford fashion label alongside his son.
A second collaboration between the younger Casely-Hayford and British clothing brand Sunspel, released late last month (November 2023), looks towards his father’s ‘deconstructed’ approach to tailoring for a five-piece capsule which seeks to reimagine the three-piece suit as an everyday garment. ’This season takes a lot of inspiration from the deconstruction that was prevalent in my dad’s works from the 1980s,’ he tells Wallpaper*. ‘Making the selection for ”The Missing Thread” – which features a lot of his designs from over the years – it felt very natural to incorporate subtle elements of that into the tailoring.’
