Left; Vita Garden Coat in Hemp, Mansfield Blouse & Vita Breeches in Linen.
Eloise Grey’s tweed collection is in the tradition of fine tailoring. Elizabeth I, a sculptural piece, seems to suit plainer tweeds such as the Smokey Silver Twill. Elizabeth II looks beautiful in the Diamond Twills.
An absolute favourite is the de Beauvoir jacket, and this year we’ve made up Toklas in Silver Herringbone, which works dramatically with all the angles of this sharply tailored style. A new edition to 2010 is the Woolf coat, in greatcoat style, re-cut and styled from a previous year in a heavy brushed tweed for extra warmth.
The blouses and skirts follow the literary tradition, with names such as Mansfield and Delafield and the Vita Sackville-West inspires the breeches and the hemp coat.
In response to customer demand Eloise Grey produced a capsule menswear collection. The styles feature exquisite tailoring details and understated elegance. There is a formal and sharp double-breasted jacket, a single buttoned jacket and a throw-over-anything gilet with nerhu collar. The menswear collection is dedicated to Somerset Maugham and the shoot pays homage to Farnham man, William Cobbett.