Patrick Grant’s menswear label Community Clothing has launched exclusively at John Lewis this week, in a partnership designed to champion small independent and British businesses.
Founded in 2016, Community Clothing is a unique fashion brand setup by Grant in a bid to help restore economic prosperity in some of the UK’s most deprived areas by producing high quality and affordable garments that are sustainably and locally produced.
Made up of 29 classic, stylish pieces, all 100% made in the UK, the collection celebrates the best of British craftsmanship. Each item is made almost exclusively from sustainable, natural, biodegradable materials sourced responsibly from long-established growers and producers.
“Community Clothing has a simple mission; to make fantastic quality everyday clothes, and by doing so deliver positive social change and help restore economic prosperity in the UK textile communities in which we work, many of them in the UK’s most deprived regions,” Grant says in a statement. “Community is in our name, it’s central to everything we do, as it is at John Lewis. Community Clothing and John Lewis have much in common philosophically.”
Beth Pettet, Head of Menswear at John Lewis, added: “Patrick Grant and his team offer customers a true choice of affordable, timeless menswear staples through the Community Clothing label. Supporting the clothing sector and its wider communities are the values that sit at the heart of the brand. More than ever before, those values are key to our customers and to our brand mission at John Lewis.”
Philip Logan
