I was browsing one of my fave blogs this morning and came across three different posts that whenput together in the context of Huxley have inspired me. Perhaps the Oxford shoe is too clunky, and could do with some more delicate laces, but a neat Oxford shoe I like. The interesting style from Pierre Hardy could be adapted and would look great in the colours from Vanns at the bottom. As usual this is just ramblings, but I fear it could be the beginning of something!

Happy New Year. Huxley is back after an indulgent Christmas break...and I have a problem. Why are formal mens shoes (i.e. Brogues, Oxfords, Desert Boots) always limited to purely shades of black and brown? I was alerted to this conundrum whilst trying to find myself some classic shoes but in an interesting colour. I remembered reading last year that Prada had bought Church's the traditional British shoemaker, and had launched a range of brighter coloured shoes. Well could these shoes be found on the highstreets of London...no! And if I had found them they would have cost upwards of £200 anyway. I ended up getting some desert boots in a pretty traditional beige...which I am going to return in the continued search for a colourful shoe. What I would really like to find is a shoe in a deep purple or burnt orange...even a French blue would suffice! Albam and Pointer do stock some great shoes in more unusual colours and styles, but I want to go further. I am going to make it my mission to track down, manufacture and sell through Huxley a classic Brogue/Oxford and a desert boot in three great colours. That is a pledge!

I have always felt that there is a gap in the market for well made, great quality and fairly priced men's clothing brand that eschews the temptation for men to stay safe with their colour palette, never veering far from blue, grey or brown clothing. I figured that in the midst of a recession is the perfect time to throw in my stable job and attempt to build a brand on the premise of using British producers, manufacturers and materials in order to offer the British consumer interesting and different brands to get their teeth into.

I have an image of a world where men are not afraid to rock a purple jumper, a yellow belt, a well fitting set of royal blue shorts, or a pair of electric green suede brogues. It is certainly true to say that there are factions out there of men who are willing to express themselves thus...however i want to bring these men out of the shadows and encourage everyone from creatives to accountants, 18 year olds to 50 year olds, lanky gents to chubby dudes to express themselves through Huxley.

The plan is to start by designing and selling some classic men's jumpers. We will start with a round neck and a v-neck in a range of eight vibrant, risky, yet very tasteful colours. The plan is to move on to the full regalia of men's clothing and accessories with socks, scarves, trousers, shorts, belts, wallets etc all following in good time.

If you stumble across this little blog and are interested by what you see please sign up as a follower and stay tuned to what is going on. We will be launching our web site in the new year and hope to have our online store up and running very soon after that. I will be updating the blog as regularly as I can with updates on the brand's progress as well as throwing up photos and links to things/people/events etc that we believe embody Huxley as a brand. As we are a young brand we encourage any comments and suggestions for the direction of the brand.

I hope you enjoy what you find here and I hope that this is the beginning of something pretty bloody special