The Rake highlight some of our newly launched bags, and offer a reminder of a couple of established favourites too. We’re privileged to count Mr Simon Crompton as a customer and pleased to hear he’s continuing to enjoy using his Herdwyck Haversack.
Good to know that – alongside Marwood, Mr Hare and Hentsch Man – we’re a favourite indie brand of Barnaby Ash, Mr Hyde’s in the know fashion stylist.
We made the The Times A – Z of spring men’s style. ‘R is for Rucksack’.
Our longest and most in-depth interview to date, with bilingual blogger, A Lanky Gentleman. It all comes pouring out when two gentlemen of the lanky variety chew the fat about Cherchbi. Countless images and translated into Italian too.
International luxury publication Le Grand Mag include Cherchbi in their take on British Heritage, ‘English design really comes into it’s own when the cold weather sets in.’ Quite right too.
A review of our Norwich Satchel by this young, quality menswear site.
Over the past decade, James Gurney’s QP magazine has become one of the most widely read and respected fine watch publications, his show Salon QP the must-attend event for anyone with more than a passing interest in timepieces. In Issue 58 read about the watch wallet we are producing for our friends the independent watch-maker Schofield.
QP - Quantième Perpétuel, the French term for perpetual calendar, in case you were wondering.
Eric Musgrave cuts through the current media attention to investigate the reality of British made fashion and textiles, featuring one of our Cherchbi in-workshop images.
Our Squires Holdall in printed Herdwyck No.10 features in Gran Turismo, a beautifully shot men’s accessories feature in luxury watch publication Tempus.
Over the past year or so we have witnessed increasing interest in Cherchbi and our bags from the architectural profession. It’s a honour to see our Herdwyck No.10 Black Sail Rucksack featured in the February issue of Conde Nast’s German AD magazine.
Thanks to Square Mile the Cherchbi Norwich M Satchel in linen/cotton Union cloth comes out on top in this piece on the best bags for men (OK, man bags) in 2013.
One of the UAE’s few English-language quality publications, The National, with an interview with fashion writer and consultant Toby Meadows in which he highlights our printed Herdwyck Holdall as a gentleman travellers must-have.
Our press pages are usually reserved for Cherchbi, but this one crept in as a) we like Die, Workwear! and b) we like Bench & Loom, they’ve supported Cherchbi from the off and work tirelessly on their wonderful online concept store.
GQ get into the detail of our collaboration with John Smedley.
A typically detailed write up by Fashion Beans of our recent collaboration with Furniture for Bikes design studio Quarterre.
Men’s Health cover our new website launch
Neil Thornton took a shine to our sleeves and pouches at the London Design Festival designjunction event.
Selectism focus on the limited nature of our new bags for John Smedley.
A review with great images of the Cherchbi versions of Quarterre’s Furniture for Bikes.
D’Marge picks up on our Squires Holdall in English Union, the cotton linen mix is perfect for the antipodean climate.
A great piece by Selectism on our new cycling-related work with Quarterre.
Cherchbi has scoured its John Smedley archives to bring a hand-made touch back to its all British designs. The leather goods brand has worked with the menswear label to uncover their original J. Smedley stamp that was used before they branded their work with sewn-in tags. Cherchbi has used British materials to produce a limited run of flap bags, overnight bags and iPad cases which will all be individually embossed with the J. Smedley stamp, they will also add individuality to the piece’s leather trim which will be certificated with their number in the production line.
Many thanks to Daniel Higgins at Fashion Beans who comments that our autumn/winter collection combines fashion credibility with a laid back sophisticated masculinity. We couldn’t put it better.
Peter at Send A Raven pulls out a couple of favourites from the new collection.
‘We cannot choose a favourite.’ David Fischer at Highsnobiety takes a look at our printed Herdwyck No.10 tweed items as they launch in Dover Street Market.
Lineage of Influence cover men’s fashion, and a little music and design in a succinct and straightforward style. Here, a review of our English Union collection.
Selectism gets into the functional detail of the English Union Archive Messenger.
I recently met Peter, the writer of Send a Raven at Look Mum No Hands on Old Street in London – good cake, great coffee and bike repairs too. It’s been around five years since the I began developing the CHERCHBI Herdwyck tweed, interesting to reflect on this and talk about the English Union collection with someone relatively new to the brand.
The Observer Magazine offer the chance to win one of our English Union Black Sail Rucksacks.
Our Docket zip pouch makes the Finishing Touches accessories page in the British GQ Trends supplement.
This months Esquire recommends the new English Union Black Sail Rucksack.
The Telegraph Magazine previews the Gazette Satchel prior to the English Union collection launch. Part of David Nicholl’s selection of the best men’s trends for the Spring season.
Lineage of Influence blog reviews CHERCHBI and our Herdwyck No.10 bags.
Just prior to our show at Capsule we spent some time talking with Sarah Jones – Lookbook’s very own Englishwoman in New York – about the short history of the brand, and the new collection of course.
The Observer Magazine includes our Herdwyck No.10 tweed sleeve in it’s iPad cover Wish List.
A typically thorough look at all things tweed and leather in the current issue of Japanese bible Free & Easy, there’s even a review of various British sheep breeds further into the magazine. As CHERCHBI just launched in Japan via United Arrows in Tokyo and Everly in Nagoya we’re grateful to James Eden for sporting one our Tenter Workbag in his Private White profile for the magazine.
The L.A. Times features the launch of the Bench and Loom site, featuring Cherchbi alongside Brough Superior, Chapal and Gilded Age. A nice mix.
Luxury magazine imagine a modern wardrobe for Steve McQueen and Oscar Wilde
Fashion Beans produce some of the most in-depth trend forecasts, here they include the Herdwyck No.10 Squires Holdall in their AW11 lookbook.
PORT is a wonderful new magazine. Words, photos and typography all of the highest order. Editors include Fergus Henderson, Hanif Kureishi, Colin McDowell, Samantha Morton and Jon Snow. Not a bad line up. Issue 3 features our Squires Holdall Medium size.
Monocle succinctly sums up our recent tweed creation, highlighting the Correspondent Satchel.
Tweed-clad gents ponder North whilst sporting our Black Sail Rucksack, in October issue of Men’s Health.
Jeremy Langmead, Editor-in-Chief at Mr Porter describes Cherchbi as ‘a beautiful little brands that specialize in high-quality, small-quantity crafted products’. Lovely.
The Carry – bag aficionados of the blogosphere – getting behind the launch of our Herdwyck No.10 iPad Sleeve.
The folks at Selectism follow up their earlier CHERCHBI piece with the launch of Herdwyck bags on MR PORTER.
The Black Sail Rucksack as part of British GQ The Greater Outdoors piece for their September issue.
A PROPER Magazine piece on the Herdwyck collection launch with a special mention for the Black Sail Rucksack, and in addition to having a tough fleece (which makes equally tough tweed) Herdwick lamb and mutton is now getting the attention it deserves. Anyone for Herdwick Hotpot?
ACTION MAN! This piece makes us smile every time we see the magazine, or look at the tiny bag we had made for it which now sits on our office curiosity shelf. Click the link to see all three pages including some ‘making of’ pics. Inspired.
In Clothes that are proud to be British, The Telegraph’s Alicia Waite highlights a number of new British brands – CHERCHBI among them – who are reaping the rewards of their decision to manufacture locally.
One of the most well read and interesting of the men’s style blogs, Style Salvage, requested some information about CHERCHBI which quickly turned into an indepth interview.
A good piece in Men’s File magazine connecting the hardiness of Herdwicks with the robustness of Herdwyck No.10 tweed.
Our Reporter Satchel, as recommended by Oliver Spencer.
A good piece on the company and Herdwyck tweed by Andrew Williams at Mens Flair.
Red squirrel on the cover, silver fox on page 10. Cherchbi Herdwyck No.10 bags go on sale on the 3rd floor at Fortnum & Mason.
Oliver Spencer spills the contents of his CHERCHBI Herdwyck Rucksack for The Guardian. The Guardian Life & Style click the link to see contents of other fashion folk.
MONOCLE MAGAZINE’s Jonathan Openshaw picked up on CHERCHBI as ‘One to Watch’ at Pitti Uomo. March issue, page 125.
German fashion industry magazine TextilWirtschaft picks up Herdwyck No. 10 bag story.
Bruce Pask, the Fashion Director of the New York Times Style Supplement included the Herdwyck bag collection in his country/utilitarian/tweed trend report. This featured alongside Nigel Cabourn, Engineered Garments and Japanese brand Haversack. Good company.
A second report by a Japanese fashion paper. Asahi Newspaper is the second largest newspaper company in Japan. The website asahi.com has 8.2 million unique visitors and 230 million page views per month. Heck.There’s an English translation of this piece below.
“CHERCHBI drew my attention in accessories. He uses precious wool from the Lake District. The fleece of these sheep is burned, but the wool is strong and treated so made waterproof. His design is warm and remains interesting. This is his debut collection but he already has business agreement with Fortnum and Mason.”
Senken Shimbun is a Japan-wide fashion industry daily newspaper covering all fashion related news. A translated summary; “UK Fashion and Jewellery Showcase held in Aoyama. CHERCHBI, which is going to make its debut in Pitti Uomo next January is a bag brand with eco-friendly view point. The texture of leather-bound wool is rough like Harris Tweed. The company managed, after three years of trial and error, to use the wool of Herdwick sheep that up until now has been abandoned because it was difficult to spin. They are committed to UK production; the wool is from the Lake District, the spinning in Northern Ireland and weaving in Wales.”
