“I think my parents are going to be quite shocked when they see this in !” Laughed Nicholas Daley, Zooming in to chat about his spring lineup. He was talking about the red, yellow, and green sweater in look 14 of this lookbook. It’s a replica of one his mother and a friend made by hand many years ago for his dad, which Daley remade for this collection as a nod to his parents.
Daley could have also been referring to the “Reggae Klub” logo tee in look eight, a reference to the reggae club his parents ran in the late ’70s and early ’80s, or to the plaid kilt in look 12. “My mom would have a go at me if I didn’t have a kilt in the collection,” he explained. Daley could have also been talking about the “Slygo Sound System” logo, a wink at his father’s past DJ name, DJ Slygo.
Nicholas Daley, the designer, is a family man. But his charming sentimentalism aside, Nicholas Daley, the brand, is not necessarily stuck in the past. This season he continued his exercise of looking at Jamaican folklore, charting the history of the diaspora from West Africa to the Caribbean, he said.
His instrument to do so, in addition to fashion, continues to be music. “I was looking at drum circles within the Rastafarian community, the Nyabinghi where you see them all together in a circle,” the designer explained. “Without this sound there wouldn’t be reggae, ska, grime, hip hop, and all of these other music genres,” he continued, “it all comes back to the drum and the.
