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The line “Van Mil” is a collaboration of a number of designers from Holland, Belgium and Canada with the production base in Canada.  There is no single figure head with the focus squarely on the garments not the people behind it. The idea was initially conceived in a café in Amsterdam where the   designers met and discussed how within their capacities as designers   employed by established corporations   their ability at creative freedom and experimentation had diminished and how it could be fun to develop a side project that could provide an opportunity to explore that creative freedom again.   Some...

I am of that generation and from a culture where when I think about my grandfather I don’t ever remember him not wearing a suit and tie (and more often than not a hat). Not because he was particularly dapper or style conscious that was just plain and simple the staple wardrobe for men of that generation in those days. There usually was a Sunday /special occasion suit and a week day one (or two) selected I am sure by my grandmother. There was no element of self expression through experimental ties or anything, this was the uniform for the...

We realize that many of us are not 20 anymore. Our bodies have matured; we have careers and a variety of different interests. The thing is that we also like good design. Over the years we have developed a personal style of our own and we have a pretty good idea of the type of things work for us. That does not mean that we are not open to new ideas, but they really should not feel or look like they are mass produced and have something about them that makes them distinct, that sets them apart from everything else...