RLV musings
Imagine it is your birthday and you received lots of presents and all well thought out and keeping you in mind and your likes and taste and your hobbies. Now imagine receiving just one present that has been handmade exclusively for you. There is no second recipient in the world for whom that gift would […]
If you have ever admired a suit for the way its cloth falls, catches the light, or simply feels different in the hand, you’ve unknowingly benefited from a fabric merchant. It’s one of the least visible roles in the textile trade, and one of the most consequential; a category of business most people outside the […]
After years of athleisure and relaxed silhouettes, India’s menswear market is buttoning up and the tailored suit is back with intent. There is something unmistakable happening on the floors of India’s top fabric showrooms, in the tailoring quarters of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru, and on the runways of every forward-thinking menswear label heading into AW […]
There’s a shirt hanging in most men’s wardrobes that they don’t think about. It shows up, does its job, disappears into the day. This isn’t about that shirt. This is about the shirt men choose. Because something has shifted. Not dramatically; no single runway moment, no viral trend that rewired everything overnight. Just a gradual […]
From mocha tailoring and café-au-lait knits to cocoa leather accessories, earth tones are outperforming their 2024 selves in menswear, both in search data and in sell-through across multiple markets. At the same time, Pantone had crowned PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse as its Color of the Year 2025; a warm, chocolatey brown “imbued with richness” and designed to answer our collective desire for comfort. So the question is simple but important: