Bill Farrelly (@staychillbill) only started sewing a few years ago, but now he works full time out of his living room in Redondo Beach, California, creating custom chain-stitched patchwork for Hollywood’s most fashionable performers, including Greta Van Fleet, Post Malone, and Orville Peck. When we asked the 30-year-old artist to be part of &SONS’ “Abstracts” series and create a custom design for our Carver chore jacket, he immediately replied “hell yes” and told us he would draw his inspiration from an esoterically odd piece of Harley-Davidson’s history. “At a swap meet my friend found this rad, old Harley-Davidson speedometer: a ‘70s-era Police Special speedo that has rotating skulls rather than miles per hour," Farrelly says. “Not only were...
Acceptance of self is a stage of life that everyone should pass through, but not everyone does. Some of the most “wildly successful” people I know have absolutely no clue who they are, no understanding of what they believe, and no notion of how to express themselves, and I sympathise with them because I know how long it took me to feel comfortable to be the man I am.
Fate seems to have played its part there as I have spent more sustained quality time with my family now than ever before and I can honestly say it has been a special time for me just to ‘be there’ for them. I have two sons, Cooper (14) and Jackson (12), so both teenagers really, who bring all the wonderful and frustrating things ;) that children at that age can bring into a household, especially during a pandemic lockdown.
Just bought a pair of &SONS raw denim jeans? Not that keen on washing clothes? You’re in the right place. Don’t wash them. That’s right: don’t wash them – unless you feel you really have to. Let your &SONS jeans become a part of you, shaping themselves to your body and your personality, taking on the form of the way you work and the way you move. As you wear them in and wear them out your jeans take on the classic signs of creases and fades in all the right places. Over the months and over the years, they simply get better and better. In fact, no two pairs of &SONS jeans are ever the same again. They’re yours...
