Has Oliver Spencer made this summer time’s greatest journey bag?

The British designer Oliver Spencer has at all times had a distinctly native outlook: a lot so, he prefers the time period ‘shopkeeper’, fostering his London-based label by way of his outposts throughout the town, and the communities he has cast in every. All of the extra in order his alternative of neighbourhoods – Marylebone, Soho, Shoreditch and Bloomsbury’s Lamb’s Conduit Avenue – are these identified for being close-knit, and (largely) impervious to big-name chains.

That stated, Spencer, who started his profession on London’s Portobello Market promoting second-hand clothes, can be an avid traveller, utilizing these journeys to encourage his seasonal collections. Current outings have drawn on journeys to Lech-Zürs – the Austrian ski resort often known as the ‘cradle of Alpine snowboarding’ – and the colors and structure of Cuba and Colombia, the latter inspiring his S/S 2023 assortment, which was photographed on the colorful facet streets of Colombian port metropolis, Cartagena.

And a brand new enterprise cements this love of journey even additional: a print journal titled Secret Journeys, based by the designer alongside a slew of writers, editors and photographers who ‘all grew up criss-crossing the world with dog-eared information books stuffed into backpacks’, because the blurb describes. Wistful in really feel, it favours the off-the-beaten monitor: throughout the 4 points to this point, there have been horseback journeys within the Andes, bar crawls by way of Albania’s secret nightlife scene, and a countdown of the perfect treehouses you possibly can keep in around the globe.