スティーヴン・フライのインスタグラム(stephenfryactually) - 6月17日 13時04分

A few ties here, with names of makers who aren’t necessarily well known, but have produced examples that are well worth displaying - hope you agree.

Firstly (pic 1) a classic paisley-on-cream from Zenith. The name Cernobbio beneath betrays its origins – the glorious Lake Como in northern Italy. It was here in 1400 that Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan (an ancestor of Shakespeare’s Prospero, perhaps) decreed that mulberry trees should be planted to encourage the rearing of Bombyx mori, the silkworm and the weaving of its glistening fibre. 80 years earlier Marco Polo had returned from his travels to China with bolts of this magical textile and tales of its production. The nearest city to Como is of course Milan, which over the centuries, in part thanks to the silk from Como and Cernobbio, became and still remains Italy’s fashion capital. Something very pleasing about the horizontal cording effect in the weave of this tie I think. There is a Zenith in India that makes ties, but they are unrelated.

Pic 2. Deadheads will know without my prompting that Jerry Garcia was a talented graphic designer as well as a legendary songwriter/vocalist/guitarist and ice cream flavour. There’s great pleasure in wearing a tie born in the mind of such a figure. I wonder if any other rock musicians have designed ties. Slipknot should surely look into it. Who else?

The #fryties offering in Pic 3 is from Déclic, a company founded by Parisian Gilles du Puy but headquartered in Australia. I bought this in Melbourne where they have 4 stores. Déclic can mean in French the click! of love at first sight.

The Melbourne Cup is the horserace “that stops the nation” – bigger in Oz by far than our Derby or Grand National. Heck of an occasion. I’ve been a few times and had ridiculous fun. I reckon I bought this tie for my 2003 visit to the Flemington Racecourse. I will have hunted around the Melbourne shops and leapt with a “click!” when I spotted the jockey motif on this tie.

Three ties, three stories.

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