A LIFE BY THE SEA
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there, that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.” - Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
A nostalgic walk among the driftwood, a cool evening breeze from the cliffs. Memories of summers on the Isle of Skye and finding old fishermen’s jumpers, faded by the sun and salty from the sea. The Spring Summer ‘18 Men’s collection was inspired by the tapestry of colours, textures, fabrics and landscapes of a life lived by the ocean.
A particular coastal landscape, used as a jacquard on an oversized jumper and as an intarsia on a knitted t-shirt, features an interpretation of a landscape from a vintage railway postcard from the 1920s. Pringle has worked with dramatic landscape designs in the past, and so the new pieces also give a nod to those found in the Pringle archives.
