S.E.H Kelly

Last updated

S.E.H Kelly
IndustryFashion
Founded2009
Headquarters Boundary Estate
London, E2
United Kingdom
Products Apparel
Website www.sehkelly.com

S.E.H Kelly is a London-based company that makes clothes with mills and factories in the British Isles.

Contents

Background

S.E.H Kelly was founded in 2009 by Sara Kelly and Paul Vincent. Sara Kelly is the design half of the duo and studied at London College of Fashion from 2000 to 2004. Upon graduating in 2004, Kelly worked for Savile Row tailoring and couture house Hardy Amies, and founded S.E.H Kelly with Paul Vincent, whose background included menswear retail and advertising, in 2009. [1]

Workshop

S.E.H Kelly is based in Cleeve Workshops on Boundary Street in Shoreditch in London. The workshop is Grade II-listed and is part of the Boundary Estate. English Heritage records indicate it was built in 1895 and was designed by Reginald Minton Taylor [2]

Events

In late October 2014, S.E.H. Kelly temporarily set up its studio at the west London shop of Vitsoe's for an exhibition entitled An Unassuming Wardrobe. The exhibition ran for ten days, from 24 October to 1 November. [3]

Related Research Articles

Brixton District in the London Borough of Lambeth in south London

Brixton is a district in the south of London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.

Mayfair Area of central London, England

Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the eastern edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It is one of the most expensive districts in London and the world.

Wembley Human settlement in England

Wembley (/ˈwɛmbli/) is a suburban town in north-west London, England, located in the ceremonial county of Greater London and the historic county of Middlesex. It is situated about 8 miles (13 km) west-northwest of Charing Cross, and includes the areas of Alperton, North Wembley, Preston, Sudbury, Tokyngton, and Wembley Park. The total population of the seven wards that make it up was of 102,856 as of 2011.

Gidea Park Human settlement in England

Gidea Park is a neighbourhood in the east of Romford in the London Borough of Havering, south-east England.

Covent Garden District in London, England

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Redfern, New South Wales Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney located 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Strawberry Hills is a locality on the border with Surry Hills. The area experienced the process of gentrification and is subject to extensive redevelopment plans by the state government, to increase the population and reduce the concentration of poverty in the suburb and neighbouring Waterloo.

Fitzrovia Human settlement in England

Fitzrovia is a district of central London, England, near the West End. The eastern part of area is in the London Borough of Camden, and the western in the City of Westminster. It has its roots in the Manor of Tottenham Court, and was urbanised in the 18th century. Its name was coined in the late 1930s.

Woughton (parish) Civil parish in Milton Keynes, England

Woughton is a civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The parish council uses the term Community Council.

Savile Row Street in Mayfair, London, England

Savile Row is a street in Mayfair, central London. Known principally for its traditional bespoke tailoring for men, the street has had a varied history that has included accommodating the headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society at 1 Savile Row, where significant British explorations to Africa and the South Pole were planned; and more recently, the Apple office of the Beatles at 3 Savile Row, where the band's impromptu final live performance was held on the roof of the building.

West Kensington Human settlement in England

West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Charing Cross. It covers most of the London postal area of W14, including the area around Barons Court tube station, and is defined as the area between Lillie Road and Hammersmith Road to the west, Fulham Palace Road to the south, Hammersmith to the north and West Brompton and Earl's Court to the east. The area is bisected by the major London artery the A4, locally known as the Talgarth Road. Its main local thoroughfare is the North End Road.

Dieter Rams German designer

Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer and retired academic, closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in "Less, but better" design generated a timeless quality in his products and have influenced the design of many products, which also secured Rams worldwide recognition and appreciation.

Alfred Dunhill Ltd.

Alfred Dunhill Limited is a British luxury goods brand, specialising in ready-to-wear, custom and bespoke menswear, leather goods, and accessories. The company is based in London, where it also owns and operates a leather workshop. Dunhill is currently owned by Richemont Holdings Limited and managed by CEO Andrew Maag.

Denmark Street Street in London

Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street. It is near St Giles in the Fields Church and Tottenham Court Road station. The street was developed in the late 17th century and named after Prince George of Denmark. Since the 1950s it has been associated with British popular music, first via publishers and later by recording studios and music shops. A blue plaque was unveiled in 2014 commemorating the street's importance to the music industry.

Paul Gorman is an English writer.

Boundary Estate

The Boundary Estate is a housing development in Shoreditch, formally opened in 1900, in the far west of the East End so in East London, England. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and its western limit, Boundary Street, is within the London Borough of Hackney.

Noel Park Human settlement in England

Noel Park in north London is a planned community built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries consisting of 2,200 model dwellings, designed by Rowland Plumbe. It was developed as the Noel Park Estate on a tract of land on the edge of north of London as part of the fast growing development of Wood Green. It is one of four developments on the outskirts of London built by the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company. From 2003 to sometime in 2009, the name was also given to a small park near the southern edge of Noel Park, formerly known – and now known again – as Russell Park.

Marylebone Area in London, England

Marylebone usually pronounced MAR-lee-bon, is a district in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. Oxford Street, Europe's busiest shopping street, forms its southern boundary.

Comme des Garçons Japanese fashion brand

Comme des Garçons is a Japanese fashion label founded and headed by Rei Kawakubo in Paris. The label began in 1969 and the company was founded in 1973. Its French flagship store is in Paris. It also establishes country-wide and world-wide store chain for various lines of products, including Dover Street Market, in major cities such as London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, and New York City. Other than fashion, it expands its business to jewelry and perfume.

Savile Row tailoring

Savile Row tailoring is men and women's bespoke tailoring that takes place on Savile Row and neighbouring streets in Mayfair, Central London. In 1846, Henry Poole, credited as being the "Founder of Savile Row", opened an entrance to his tailoring premises into No. 32 Savile Row. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers. The short street has been termed the "golden mile of tailoring", where customers have included Charles, Prince of Wales, Jude Law, Winston Churchill, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Laurence Olivier, Duke Ellington, Lord Nelson and Napoleon III.

JW Anderson is a British fashion label, founded by Jonathan Anderson. Anderson lived in Northern Ireland during his youth before establishing JW Anderson in 2008 and subsequently launched his fashion house in London. The brand initially focused on menswear, before moving into womenswear in 2010. From 2012 onwards, the brand and its designer have collaborated with a number of retail fashion brands, most notably Topshop and Versace with LVMH acquiring a minority stake in the brand in 2013.

References

  1. Davies, Gareth Wyn (24 April 2012). "The must-know menswear label: S.E.H Kelly". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  2. "Listing for Cleeve Workshops, Rear of Cleeve House, Boundary Street Estate, Hackney".
  3. Ho, Matt. "S.E.H Kelly Set Up Shop Inside Vitsoe London". HYPEBEAST. Retrieved 27 July 2015.