The Spring Summer collection for 2013 is all about some early memories of a holiday in the glamorous Riviera; it was not the south of France but Torquay on the south west coast of England.

It was the only Riviera my folks could take their young family to but after a few summers in Cleethorpes, in what our American cousins call a trailer, or a caravan to those of us from England,then the “English Riviera” was a real treat, the first time I saw a palm tree, swam in the sea

To me that vacation was in some way meaning my dad had some money in his pocket as we had a fish and chip super most nights and an ice cream every day. In those days he worked long hours 6 days a week as a craftsman baker and his two-week holiday was a special time for him and us kids.

The idea of being able to live a little on holiday from the daily grind was the idea of the collection, titled the Torquay Tycoon, it’s about all the usual aspects of simple, well fitted and comfortable hard wearing menswear you expect form UW. More form and function and style not fashion but with added colour and summer prints for some perfect spring and summer garments, and knowing the great British weather in Torquay or Cleethorpes, it also includes some great lightweight anoraks!