In the 2010's, you'd find me saving what I had to buy from the All Saints archive sale. I remember visiting their short-lived Leeds Dock store in my home city simply to look through their current season stock to anticipate what may land on there later down the line for me. 

Roll forward to this week and I am stood in the All Saints' founder's workshop discussing working together on a collaboration project. I have many tales from my time since starting Mallin & Son and this one is certainly up there. 

Stuart Trevor's All Saints days are long behind him as are the days of Bolongaro Trevor, the brand he created following the well documented sale of All Saints. 

These days, Stuart is all about his latest self-named venture which proudly proclaims to be the 'clothing brand that doesn't make clothes'. And this is where we come in. 

After doing the rounds at events and on podcasts, he would tell anyone that would listen about everything that's wrong with the current state of the fashion industry. It's a message we're all too familiar with and one that resonates through the core of what we do. 

Stuart has been around far longer than us and he won't mind me saying far longer than most, so he knows what he is talking about. A short phone call led to a meeting in his studio in Shoreditch where we shared our love for quality, sustainable fashion alongside all of the usual stories you come to learn when you start to fully embed into this industry. 

His work takes surplus stock and fabrics to create both one off and small runs of garments. His walls were hung with vintage wools to books, motorcycle signs and what looked like a tiger's head, yes a tiger's head. In truth, it was exactly like our own workshop and we loved it. 

Reworked military bombers were finished with printed patches and vintage denim shirts were re-imagined with lace back among repeated imagery of a joint hero in David Bowie. 

My own design work, like many, pins back to military silhouettes and fabrics. Stuart has taken that up a notch to create a collection that is both disruptive and one that absolutely makes sense. With all of the clothing that has already been made, why do we actually need to create any more?

And it's on that question that we spoke about how we can work together to create something that matters. Something that really drives our shared ethos for the industry and challenges us both to be creative. 

You can expect something exciting on that front later this year but for now, your Stuart's work at www.stuarttrevor.com