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"FacebookPinterestSpurr 1.jpg\n\nFacebookPinterestSpurr 2.jpg\n\nFacebookPinterestSpurr 3.jpg\n\nSimon Spurr has emerged as one of the heavyweights in American menswear's new guard (see Bastian and Browne for other members) by seeming to singlehandedly make suits cool again. The designer certainly knows his way around constructing one that fits, having worked under Ralph Lauren and Hedi Slimane, but Spurr has moved beyond basics and been toying with tradition in recent seasons. Unconventional patterns and colors have been applied to sharply tailored pieces as have mid media fabrications, like he did with last season's leather sleeves. For Fall 2012 the inspiration is \"Distinguished Gentleman\" and the designer is pulling from a myriad of artistic references, from Robert Frank's photographs of London to Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley. Whether or not this means Spurr is toning down his recent design risks remains to be seen but one thing we know for sure is everything on the runway will be tailored to perfection."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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