BEAUTY: Clothing--Denzil Patrick

For London Fashion Week, Denzil Patrick designer Daniel Gayle showed a collection only for the second time in his own hometown. Launched three years ago by Gayle along with his husband James Bosley who is also Artistic Director of the brand, Denzil Patrick has carved out a place in the industry. The pair like to play with British elements of fashion (see their British Navy-inspired SS '25 collection here), but also to deconstruct and then reassemble pieces of traditional masculine garments.

So for this Fall-Winter '25-'26 collection, they looked to the world of motocross through a Medieval lens, and the resulting Romantic, swashbuckling presentation ended up looking like a modern staging of Romeo and Juliet, with pieces that evoked padded and slashed Elizabethan jackets. Breastplates and aiguillettes (ornamental braided cord often found on military uniforms) helped this look along. And the motocross reference blended in well too: the pattern of the traditional checkered flag from the racing world felt like it was a leftover from Tudor England--the collection was entitled "Everyday Majesty" after all!

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