Tue, 26th Jan

THIS Weekend

Folks, we’ve a busy weekend in store for SS aficionados. Two different events on different sides of the city.

SHOREDITCH HOUSE

Firstly, a treat for Soho House Group members and a limited “first come, first serviced” guest list.

This Saturday and Sunday (30th-31st Jan), Shoreditch House have invited us and our Dictators of Fashion winter collection into their Snug. We’re offering discounts over and above our daily Dictator Discount that amount to 40% or more.

If you are not a member but would like to be put on the House guest-list, please e-mail us on commit@socialsuicide.co.uk or use the “functionality” (there’s some sarcasm there) of Facebook.

… AND SAMPLE SALE

And at the same time, we’re clearing out the Ganton Street store and filling it with samples and seconds at up to 90% off. The address is 8 Ganton Street, London W1F 7QP, there’s a map here and it’s open 11-7pm Sat and 12-6pm Sunday.

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Stitch This

A little news for our wholesale buyers:

This February we will be exhibiting at a new menswear show to London, Stitch, on the  14th and 15th Feb at Old Billingsgate. Please do come along and see us and the other brands exhibiting there.

This is our quote that they have used for their marketing. I took a dictation from Winston Churchill.

“Simon and I are absolutely delighted to find, at last, a menswear show that is not only based in London but also has a distinctly British feel. About time too. Some of the best work in the world has been coming out of this small island and now we can hopefully say the same about our shows. We’re really looking forward to the inaugural show in February. It’s going to be great. STITCH this.”

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Money to Haiti

We’ve been giving 10% of our takings to help the children of Haiti for the last week and will continue for a little bit longer. It’s not something that we’ve been in a position to do very often in our short life and I really hope that it helps.

Haiti was ruled for almost 15 years by one of the most oppressive regimes of recent times. François Duvalier, aka Papa Doc was “President for Life” from the late 1950s and was then succeeded in the mid 70s by his not-much-better son “Baby Doc”. Enforcing rule with military and rural militias, voodoo, constitutional change and corruption, they bought an already poor nation and it’s people to their knees. The Duvaliers are a direct cause of much of Haiti’s poverty which has greatly exacerbated the nation’s current plight.

Since we’re having a light hearted poke at the world’s dictators, it seems appropriate that we support the very real victims of Haiti as best we can.

Oh, and if you do donate via us, please fill out one of the Gift Aid forms, it can add and extra 28p to your pound!

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Wed, 11th Nov

Boutique (homme)

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Introducing our new Parisian partners Boutique (Homme). Serge and Damian have been ramping up for a few seasons and they launched to massive applause in September. They are now our primary stockist in Paris – which is great because they are probably the best store in France, bar none. A really genuine pair of guys with a genuine eye for fashion.

You’ll find them at: Boutique (homme), 32 rue des Blancs Manteaux, 75004 Paris… France.

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Mon, 28th Sep

Fahrenheit Fire Sale

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We’ve switched from Centigrade to Fahrenheit - whatever the temperature at checkout is the discount you get in percent. But in Fahrenheit. Yes, Fahrenheit. If it hits 38ºC (100ºF) we’re going to get sunburnt.

It’s dynamic in the store and still supplied by the Met Office, but if you follow us on Twitter, we’ll tweet a discount code for the day’s forecast <http://twitter.com/socialsuicide>.

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Fashion Diktat

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Our stunning AW2009 Dictators of Fashion collection will be with us in a few weeks time. It’s all tailor made, pure wool, detail rich stuff as usual but based on dictators – hero’s and villains.

“… draws style and structural inspiration from a series of 20th Century military and political heroes, and a few tyrants. Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, JFK, Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Chairman Mao, General Kalashnikov and Benito Mussolini. Eight characters, eight cuts, eight stories; all with incredible detailing, beautiful handwork, leather trims and delicate embroidery.

Evening wear in black or cream super fine super 120’s wool cashmere, trimmed and lined in silk and detailed with gold; and daywear in pure wool flannels, trimmed in leather. Every piece is hand made by tailors.”

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Did You Wish You Were There?

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Our pop up shop, Wish You Were Here NYC has packed up shop and shipped home. By all accounts it was massively successful. In no particular order:

Cool Hunting
Thrillist
Men.style.com
Dossier
Stylegroove
Urban Junkies
Vogue
Elle

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Time Out

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Both on-line and in print. Thanks Time Out!

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Fri, 7th Aug

Hot in the city… but which city

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What a shocking prediction from the Met Office. Normally, a bad weather forecast results in little more than a few damp picnics; at worst, Yorkshire gets washed away. But this summer, catastrophe! Overpriced fashion. If there’s one thing that strikes fear into the heart of any fashionista, it’s not getting a decent discount. Never mind the flood victims, our whole escalating weather sale has hit a flat and rather dull 22ºC / 22% off. Not the 40% we were forecast.

So, to fix the situation and in harmony with our new New York Pop-up, we’ve moved our forecast to to Manhattan. It’s about 10ºC hotter than London at the moment, thus our miserable 20%s is elevated into the exciting 30%s. Mushy more attractive!

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Mon, 3rd Aug

It’s Nice That

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… and isn’t is just. A lovely bit of coverage from the boys at It’s Nice That and then some follow up from PSFK. All the shots were supplied by the remarkable Ed Reeve.

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