The Farah Journal

SPRING SUMMER 22
A grey Thursday morning late May, the year 1990 the location Widnes, Cheshire, England. As 27,000 fans descended onto a crammed field surrounded by chemical factories unbeknownst to them The Stone Roses cemented their pillar in rock music history. For...
Uptown Top Ranking with Bianca Saunders and Farah
Bianca Saunders collaborative collection ‘Uptown Top Ranking’ with Farah, pays homage to the up dressing style of young Jamaicans in 1970’s and uses the iconic Farah press to explore the male subcultures of the time. We caught up with her...
FARAH X BIANCA SAUNDERS - SPRING SUMMER 2022 COLLABORATION
Introducing London designer, Bianca Saunders and the collaborative collection ‘Uptown Top Ranking’. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Art MA programme, recent 2021 winner of globally renowned ANDAM Award and finalist for the LVMH Young Fashion Designer Awards 2021,...
LAUNCHING OUR HIGH SUMMER SS21 COLLECTION
There was a good reason why Fort Lauderdale, in Florida, used to have the nickname ‘Fort Liquordale’. “It’s not that we drink too much,” as one of the tourists who visited the sea-side city each spring once noted back in...
SS21 – NEW HOLLYWOOD
Long, warm, golden-hued evenings. A relaxed, easy, West Coast style. Welcome to Hollywood of the late 1960s and early 1970s, where the young guns are shaking up the film industry.   For Spring/Summer 2021, we take our inspiration from the...
FARAH X MARTINE ROSE
In celebration of our 100 Year anniversary we are delighted to announce our collaboration with influential British menswear designer, Martine Rose.  Martine Rose: “Farah was an easy fit for me, some of my earliest memories are watching my cousins play football...
FARAH PRESENTS: HIGH SUMMER
Monterey Camo Sweatshirt in Acid Green For High Summer 2020 we’ve taken a trip back to the First Summer of Love. It’s June 16th 1967 and crowds are gathering in California for The Monterey Festival, a non-profit event showcasing over...
FARAH PRESENTS: 1950′s YOUTH REBELLION
Throughout 2020 we are celebrating our 100th anniversary with a series of collection launches, each one marking a seminal moment in popular culture and cementing Farah’s place at the heart of it. For the SS20 collection we traveled back to...
FARAH PRESENTS: THE BERLIN YEARS
For our 2019 Holiday Collection we retraced back to David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s musical journey through post war Berlin. In need of inspiration, and desperate to escape New York’s hedonistic lifestyle, Bowie and Iggy headed to Berlin to experience...
Farah x Leeds Arts University
Farah is all about contemporary style, and we  recognise that it’s the new generation of young designers who will bring the next batch of new ideas to men’s fashion. That’s why we’ve collaborated with Leeds Arts University on a project...
Summer Festival Style Guide
Following on from our collaboration with Live at Leeds, Festival season is now in full swing with some very exciting line-ups from notable summer festivals such as Glastonbury, Lovebox & Great Escape. Dressing for the occasion isn’t always an easy...
THE FARAH SS19 HIGH SUMMER COLLECTION
For our High Summer collection, we took to the hedonistic shores of the Balearic Islands, namely Ibiza, to recapture the spirit of youthful mischief that was inherent in the so-called ‘White Isle’ in the 1990s. Throughout this period, clubs of...
Royalcheese x Farah Store Launch
Recently, Farah opened its first store in the Montorgueil quarter of Paris with a launch of the Spring/Summer 19 collection   Guests  gathered to explore the new collection and share a cocktail whilst listening to Parisian DJ Andy 4K, who sound...
THE FARAH SS19 CAMPAIGN
This season Farah pays homage to the last great musical revolution: acid house. Originating in Chicago in the mid-1980s, the irresistible synth sounds were exported to the sun-bleached beaches of Ibiza where, the story goes, three British DJs were mesmerised...
#FarahBoys - Ethan Richards aka @BushyBroweth
We spent the day with Ethan Richards, the model and influencer @BushyBroweth, #adventuresofbushy, to you and I, in London’s Soho to find out more about him.   Farah: What do you feel it means to be an Influencer? Ethan: Well...
THE FARAH AW18 HOLIDAY COLLECTION AS SEEN ON HIGHSNOBIETY
For the 2018 holiday collection, we’ve been inspired by the work of industrial designer Hella Jongerius . Hailing from the Netherlands, Jongerious’ work spans a range of disciplines and mediums all centered around the exploration of colors, materials, and textures....
FARAH SS17 GET TO KNOW THE NEW SEASON COLLECTION
SS17 sees Farah draw inspiration from one of London’s unexpected iconic landmarks, the Balfron Tower in the heart of East London Designed by Erno Goldfinger, the building’s Brutalist aesthetic has influenced a thoughtfully curated, concept driven collection for spring. Do...
MY FARAHS CELEBRATING FARAH'S TROUSER HERITAGE WITH JOCKS & NERDS
Over the decades Farah trousers have been adopted by various youth cultures a badge of freedom and individuality. Acknowledging the continued popularity of Farah trousers, we teamed up with Jocks & Nerds magazine to create a film profiling three London-based...
INTERVIEW WITH FARAH DESIGNER CHRIS O’BRIEN FARAH DESIGNER CHRIS O'BRIEN ON OUR SS17 COLLECTION
We sat down with Farah Menswear Designer Chris O’Brien to discuss his favourite pieces from SS17 collection, what it’s like to be a designer and what it takes to get there. HOW DID YOU GET INTO MENSWEAR DESIGN? I actually...