Tag: Archive

Meet the Vintage Stone Island Hunters Tracking Down Rare Archive Pieces Across the World

By The Hoxton Trend | October 8, 2026

https://youtu.be/6oprmCFSjNA From early Stone Island experiments to rare C.P. Company garments, Leicester-based Archivio Clothing has built a business around sourcing some of the most sought-after pieces in Italian sportswear history. We recently travelled to Leicester to meet brothers Chris and Kyle, two of the triplets behind Archivio Clothing, to discover how a childhood fascination with

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How Lyle & Scott Found it’s Place in British Menswear Culture

By The Hoxton Trend | October 6, 2026

Few British clothing brands have travelled quite as far as Lyle & Scott. Founded in Hawick in the Scottish Borders in 1874, the company began life producing knitted underwear and hosiery. More than 150 years later, the same name can be found on jackets that change colour according to temperature, knitwear activated by sunlight and

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Why Hiroshi Nozawa Designs Clothes Around Function, Not Fashion

By The Hoxton Trend | September 15, 2026

Hiroshi Nozawa isn’t interested in designing clothing purely for aesthetics. Through his label Norbit, the Japanese designer has quietly built a reputation around functional garments shaped by movement, weather, utility and the realities of outdoor life. It is partly why some technical fashion followers have compared his approach to that of Massimo Osti, the influential

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Remember When British High Streets Were Full of Different Sports Shops?

By The Hoxton Trend | September 6, 2026

There was a time when buying trainers, a tracksuit or the latest football shirt in Britain meant choosing between far more than the handful of major retailers that dominate sports retail today. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, British high streets and shopping centres were filled with competing sports shops. JJB Sports, Sports Division,