Searching for Fashion’s Most Reclusive Designer

About eight years ago, the actor Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall Roy in Succession and who is known for his esoteric, romantic tastes in fashion, which match the more verbose aspects of his character, found himself in Brighton, a seaside town on the south coast of England. Brighton is home to a sizable university, a thriving array of LGBTQ venues, and the secretive shoemaker and fashion designer Paul Harnden, whose vintage-looking, vaguely Dickensian pieces are made by some of England’s oldest mills, in traditional tweeds, or silks or sturdy Ventile. Strong decided to use the occasion to track Harnden down…. Read Full Article