Ben Sherman has launched a brand new limited-edition assortment with Ace Café, the world’s most well-known motor café which was established at Ace Nook on the North Round Street in North London in 1938.
The café has been a infamous assembly place and hangout for rockers, bikers and scooter boys over time, and the Ben Sherman x Ace Café assortment is described as “a timeless fusion of Mod and biker tradition spanning from the late ’50s to current day”.
It consists of seven meticulously designed items, every fastidiously crafted in a modern black and white color palette – drawing inspiration from Ace Cafe’s iconic checkerboard sample.
There’s knitted zip polos, 50s-style viscose bowling shirts, and t-shirts with graphics paying homage to the early 60s Mod period in British youth tradition.
Ben Sherman was established in 1963, and one t-shirt references Brighton – the place the Mods and Rockers ran pitched battles in opposition to one another on Financial institution Vacation weekends through the early Sixties.
The unique collaboration “provides a limited-edition style assertion the place type, tradition, and historical past converge in a compelling showcase”.
The gathering is now accessible on the new Ben Sherman retailer that opened final month at 19-20 Dukes Lane in Brighton, a stone’s throw from Ben Sherman’s first-ever retailer again in 1963, referred to as Tens of millions of Shirts Inc. on Duke Avenue.
It’s also accessible on the model’s new Soho retailer at 97 Berwick Avenue, which opened on the finish of August, in addition to on the Ben Sherman and Ace Café Store web sites.
