Harris Wharf London

Harris Wharf London was launched in 2010 by Giulia and Aldo Acchiardi, a sister and brother working out of Angel, in London, and manufacturing in the family’s Turin factory, which has been in operation since 1928, where their grandparents first made ladies’ gloves. The name is English. The hands are Italian. That division explains most of what follows.

The house is best known for coats built without linings. Most tailoring depends on interfacing, canvas, and lining to hold a shape the cloth cannot hold alone. Harris Wharf London goes the other way. It selects pressed and felted wools and wool jerseys dense enough to stand on their own, cuts them with raw edges, and leaves the inside as finished as the outside. The result weighs a fraction of a conventional coat and moves with the body rather than around it. It is also, for the same reason, a garment you can keep on indoors, which matters more in Santa Fe than it does in Milan.

Harris Wharf London at W Department

W Department carries Harris Wharf London in both men’s and women’s, across SS25, FW25, and SS26: two-button and stand-up-collar blazers, a short loden in light pressed wool, a western jacket in off-white, a coach jacket, a moleskin shirt jacket in dark blue herringbone, pleated and flared trousers, a geometric dress with pockets, and a crinkle top. Nearly all of it is made in Italy, and nearly all of it in virgin wool. Where a garment is made and where its cloth is woven are separate questions: the pleated trousers and the crinkle top are made in Italy from Japanese cloth.

One cloth merchant is worth naming. The houndstooth blazer and its matching jogging trouser are cut from Vitale Barberis Canonico. It is a mill you meet more often in tailoring that asks for a fitting and an occasion than in something you can put on over a shirt at eleven in the morning. The plaid blazer, blue and brown, runs 51 percent virgin wool to 49 percent cotton and is made in Italy.

That is the argument for the line, and the reason it keeps coming back.

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• All Harris Wharf London. Men’s and women’s together.
• Coats and jackets. Outerwear across the whole roster.
• Lemaire. Another Paris house we carry for cut rather than construction.
• Shop W Department. Everything currently online, across the whole roster.
• Visit W Department. 54½ Lincoln Avenue on The Plaza, open daily, 11 to 5.

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