GORHAM’S GEAR: Ben Gorham joined Frame founders Erik Torstensson and Jens Grede at a cocktail hosted by the brand at Torstensson and Natalie Massenet’s private residence in West London on Tuesday night.
This is Gorham’s first foray into clothing, as the innovator in the artisanal fragrance movement has worked on accessories in the past. The 6-foot-5-inch-tall Byredo founder and former professional basketball player worked with the London-Los Angeles fashion brand on a 20-piece dedicated men’s capsule range titled “Away From His Hands.” The range was inspired by the youth lifestyles of rodeos and ranches as seen in Western references in the form of patchwork denim, leather vests, vintage Ts and paisley scarf linings.
“There was the childhood associations to cowboys,” said Gorham. “That was my immediate connection to denim and it was kind of from my origin. I saw a new subculture and new generation come out through the rodeo scenes. They were young Americans and Latin Americans. As a style, it was a hybrid of classic cowboys and styled with denim and boots combined with sportswear and T-shirts and prints. I fell in love with that as an image. It became the base of the capsule.”
He called the process an organic one
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