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We've got a few short videos of what is coming up for spring summer 11. These will be launched gradually over the next week or two. First up is Lou Dalton who refines her aesthetic by including some more print pieces.

We thought we would celebrate August with a very special prize; a limited edition T shirt specially designed for Daniel Jenkins Ltd. The T shirt, made by Marshall Artist of 100% cotton, is impecably crafted and available in the size of your choice (small, medium, large or extra large). It is navy with a red lobster design. 

To take part in the competition sign up for our newsletter, follow me on Twitter @djenkinsltd, or place an order. The competition will end at midnight on 31st August 2010.  

Firstly apologies for the lack of recent blogging.

I'm right in the middle of doing our buying for spring summer 11 which is taking up quite a lot of my time at the minute. As in past seasons we will be continuing our buying policy of supporting emerging British menswear talent.

This is a particular joy as currently the British menswear 'scene' is creating some amazing pieces from some seriously talented people. Which is why the BFC's NEWGEN MEN award announcement was greeted with such joy @ Jenkins towers a few weeks ago. 

So i'm going to stop a moment and say congratulations and well done to Carolyn Massey, Lou Dalton and Sibling. We are delighted for you. It's greatly deserved.

I can't help being passionate about British Menswear. For far too long it hasn't received the praise it should have - sometimes receiving praise it really didn't warrant instead. Right now as fans we are being treated to some great work which pushes us to the forefront of what is new, interesting, different yet wearable. Something we should all be proud of! 

London based Queen Mary Theatre Company present Figs in Wigs at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They are performing at theSpace@Venue 45, 39 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh 16th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th August.

More to come...

Oh and the eagle eyed among you will have spotted that they are wearing the infamous Sibling Skull Breton! 

To take part in our July competetion please sign up for our newsletter, follow me on Twitter @djenkinsltd, or place an order.

The prize for the July competition will be your choice of any T shirt  (other than a Passarella Death Squad T shirt) providing, of course, we have your size in stock. The competition will close at 15.00pm on 31st July 2010.

Good luck.

This month’s prize is in honour of the upcoming summer (ha!) and a certain band’s debut album being previewed on Soundcloud – more on that later.

We are offering a Passarella Death Squad T-shirt of the winner’s choosing – subject to colour and size availability.

Entry is fairly simple. Sign up for our Newsletter or follow us on Twitter to be in with a chance of winning. Obviously if you sign up for both you get two entries. If you are already following us then sit back your name is in the hat.

On top of all this signing up entitles you to 15% off your next order – much better than poke in eye.

Competition closes 15:00 on the 30^th of June. Winner will be notified by email later on that day. New competition starts 1^st of July.

Good luck!

Twitter Newsletter Info.

So we’ve had this idea. We want to give more to the people who support us and follow us and believe in what we are trying to do.

Therefore, everybody who follows us via Twitter and/or signs up for the newsletter will be sent a 15% discount code to use on their next order. Don’t worry if you are already signed up to either you will also receive a 15% code .

From the 1^st of June newsletter subscribers and Twitter followers will be entered automatically each month into a competition to win a prize – prize changes each month and first prize will be announced at start of June.

Hope all of that makes sense. Give yourselves a pat on the back for supporting British Fashion!

Dan

Disco Discharge – Classic Disco

Harmless’ entire Disco Discharge series is worth picking up if you get the chance but as a starting point their Classis Disco LP is perfect introduction into Disco as a whole. Full of unmixed – hallelujah – 12”’s with Alan Jones of  Saturday Night Forever  fame writing the sleeve notes this has created an image in my head that I could be cool – really I’m not! I picked it up from Sounds of the Universe in Soho.

The National – High Violet.

So my ongoing addiction to purchasing music continues this week with a couple of Fabric Cd’s – reviews to follow – quick scout around Sounds of the universe resulting in Disco Discharge’s ‘Classic Disco’ and The National’s new acclaimed long player High Violet.

The National have been on my radar for a while but lingering in a slight blind spot. However, High Violet has brought them front row centre. I uploaded the album onto my generic mp3 player and headed off to find a copy of this season’s Fantastic Man. Sadly the magazine eluded capture despite covering half of Shoreditch and Dalston. Album kept me entertained and I returned home in a pleasing fog of gloom – my default setting.

It fits in snugly into the current trends in American ‘indie’ music. Not usually a genre I’m enamoured with but High Violet’s atmospheric undertones charmed me and simplicity of music has been stuck in my head all week. Yes, there are a few things I would change production wise – certain tracks would do with the drums being stripped of effects and perhaps brought slightly higher in the mix but other than that this album is hauntingly beautiful.

So this week has been a bit of a hipster’s paradise with ‘the Supreme book’ – as  I believe it’s commonly known finally shipping, through to Flying Lotus releasing his new album.

Now I like Supreme the label fascinates me but I must confess I was brought up in rural Wales and frankly, there weren’t many opportunities to skate so I’m probably not the best person to comment on the label’s past and the book itself, other than to say I enjoyed reading it this morning and will have a proper look before the Man City v Tottenham game this evening.

What really interests me this week is the Flying Lotus album. Firstly because Los Angeles is a constant on my stereo and Tea Leaf Dancers is just one of those songs.

I was intrigued having read the hype and streamed the album through myspace what effect the record played through a proper sound system would have on me.  I’ve taken on board the comments made by journalists, many stating that this is a headphone record perhaps in the way Massive Attack’s 100^th window was. Not sure I agree. Yes, it can does take a few listens to grasp the complexity and decipher the layers and textures but I would’ve thought that most of the record’s consumers would be used to that and there is a time and place for immediacy.

That is all conjecture. The album itself works best as a whole. In fact I wish that the label had put it out as one track. You can dip in here and there but to me it ruins what is an interesting take on modern ‘opera’. In a world where we are bombarded by lack of talent masquerading as cool I enjoy listening to the work of a man who sounds like he doesn’t give a damn.

Pretty much a must purchase.