Anyone lucky enough to have attended one of Nicholas Daley’s presentations or fashion shows will know that music is almost as much a part of the Daley experience as his desirable, craft-centric clothes. This might mean an actual jazz quartet playing the tuba and handheld sakara drums while walking the runway, or an afterparty headlined by iconic dub and reggae musicians like Dennis Bovell and Linton Kwesi Johnson, or even the colors of the legendary jazz label Blue Note’s logo woven into the garments themselves.
So, for his latest collaboration with the storied British label Mulberry, it makes sense that Daley would expand the richly-drawn world he’s built within the hinterland between music and fashion—albeit this time, with a firmly more of-the-moment twist. “Music and fashion have always been closely linked, so I’m not reinventing the wheel,” says Daley, cheerily. “But I think my personal relationships with friends working in music, really talking to them and asking questions and problem solving with them on a much deeper, personal level, is what makes it feel more interesting or more authentic.”
Modeling the eclectic range of bags and bucket hats he conceived with Mulberry—alongside plectrum pouches, guitar straps, and saxophone straps, naturally—are a troupe of musicians that have now become a key part of Daley’s creative universe, including Shabaka Hutchings, the frontman of experimental jazz quartet Sons of Kemet, and the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas. “The idea was to build the capsule around the idea of a working musician, an artist who’s performing and traveling the globe touring, and rushing for their next plane,” says Daley. “It was about finding that balance between functionality and aesthetics.”
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