Those who covet everything designer Stella McCartney creates will be eager to learn that they can invest in one of her t-shirts while also doing their bit for charity.

Stella McCartney has created the most fashionable charity t-shirt around for this year’s Red Nose Day. Modeled by the likes of Keira Knightley and David Walliams and photographed Stella’s sister, the famed photographer Mary McCartney, the fabulous t-shirts are available exclusively at TK Maxx.

As well as all the proceeds going to Comic Relief, the t-shirts have been wholly manufactured in Africa, with 100% Fairtrade certified, organic cotton from co-operatives in Senegal and Burkina Faso.

Beautiful and charitable!

Whether it’s supporting orphans in Africa who’ve lost their parents to Aids or helping older people in the UK who are abused by someone they should trust – Comic Relief will use the money you raise to help people in desperate need.

Limited edition tee with Madonna

Supporting Comic Relief and modelling the t-Shirts, Keira said: “Red Nose Day helps countless lives for the better, both here in the UK and in Africa. I am really happy to be part of this year’s activity to raise money and so excited to wear Stella’s designs.”

Morecambe & Wise

The actress looked like she was having fun posing in several guises for the photoshoot.

On Red Nose Day 2009 and her role in this year’s campaign, Stella McCartney commented: “It’s a real honour to be involved in such a tremendous cause and be a part of the Red Nose Day campaign 2009. The designs of the t-shirts were inspired by iconic images of iconic people by iconic photographers and adding an element of humour to them. I wanted to focus on photographs where people are happy and create a charity t-shirt that would become a staple of a person’s wardrobe”.

Red Nose Day T-shirt Range:

Adults
The Beatles/Morecambe and Wise (available in white)
Unisex Adult T-shirt (XS-XXL): £9.99 with at least £5 going to Comic Relief
Limited Edition Madonna print (available in white)
Fashion T-shirt and Vest (XS-L ): £14.99 with at least £8 going to Comic Relief

Kids
The Beatles/Morecambe & Wise (available in red & white)
Bunny (available in white)
Unisex T-shirt (1-6 years): £5.99 with at least £3 going to Comic Relief
Unisex T-shirt (7-10 years): £6.99 with at least £3 going to Comic Relief
Unisex Long Sleeved T-shirt (ages 1-6 years): £5.99 with at least £3 going to Comic Relief

Baby Bunny
Baby long sleeve T-shirt (0-3 months–9-12 months): £5.99 with at least £3 going to Comic Relief

Don’t miss out on your very own original Stella McCartney T-shirt for Red Nose Day, exclusively from TK Maxx.

Find out more at www.tkmaxx.com/comicrelief

Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England/Wales), SCO39730 (Scotland)

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What do you think of Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh? As many people love him as loathe him, but I think he’ll be behind the next fashion trend.

His style on the show is 80s popstar one minute and outlandish space cowboy the next, either way he’s unusual. And it’s this simultaneously ludicrous and amazing style that puts him at the top, (and bottom) of a lot of best dressed lists.

Away from The Mighty Boosh, Noel Fielding’s style is just as striking - he doesn’t wear silver cat suits and heeled boots like he does in the show, but it’s more androgynous Camden punk or new romantic with unusual additions like band t shirts and skinny jeans. The Camden look has a definite focus on band t shirts, and Fielding has been seen is t shirts from Gary Numan to Robots in Disguise (that’s the band fronted by his on/off girlfriend Dee Plume. Her style is just as bold but this is a men’s fashion blog so I won’t bore you with that.)

I’m not a massive fan of Noel Fielding but the way he creates his own style rather than following fashion trends puts him at the top of my fashion list. But don’t copy his fashion trends directly please – you know what I think of people who do that with Russell Brand!

Peter

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The power of writing this men’s fashion blog is going to my head – some of my customers know I write this for hisfashioneye. I’ve told you a lot about what fashionable guys should wear but not much about what they shouldn’t.

Well I’m going to wield my power in the hope of righting some of the fashion mistakes that are flooding my home city of Leeds. This is the first in a series where I’m going to rant about the men’s fashion mistakes I see every day in my shop. So here is the first fashion mistake that I want to stamp out in hisfashioneye?

Number 1 - Dressing like Russell Brand
I’m seeing more and more characters dressed like Russell Brand and it scares me. Don’t get me wrong, he’s got a unique style that’s no doubt helped his career, and he’s one of my top dressers of the year - with black skinny jeans, waistcoats and big, backcombed hair, he looks like a man from the past. I love the look for an international celebrity, and a return to dandy elegance but for a normal bloke walking the streets?

Why not just take inspiration from his style instead of copying it directly? Maybe a scarf or waistcoat, or even an over all feeling of old-fashioned formal wear. But week after week I get Brand clones coming into my shop. I tell them what I’m telling you now - You’ll look back on the photos in 5 years and cringe!

I’m starting to sound like my dad now, so I’ll leave the rest until I calm down.

Peter

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As you know I’m a fan of Strictly Come Dancing, especially the male professionals who set the tone for how fashion conscious men ought to dress. I make a point of keeping a close eye on what they are wearing (strictly for professional reasons in my role as personal shopper and fashion adviser!) and I must say that this week Anton du Beke was wearing the most exquisite designer tie as he walked into the BBC building.

Anton always looks perfectly groomed (though I’ve not seen him on the silly game show he’s in now – the things people will do for money!) and his taste in ties is perfection itself.

I knew what it was straight away as I’d seen the very same tie in a Paul Smith collection of designer ties a few weeks ago while doing research for the autumn season. But it’s always worth pointing out that if designer ties aren’t for you, the style conscious man can achieve the same effect and be kinder to his credit card by selecting one of the many other top quality pure silk ties that are fresh out for this season.

Quality will out, as my old gran used to say, and never so much as in a well made pure silk tie.

xxxx
Sarah

p.s. I was reading that Anton’s real name is Tony Beeks but he changed it. Well personally I don’t find anything wrong with Tony Beeks, but since I’ve always known him as Anton du Beke, then Anton du Beke he will stay!

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What makes a funny t shirt? It’s a fine line between cool and cringey and the boundaries are changing all the time. Let me give you an example. The coolest man of the last few years has clearly been David Hasselhoff. He was cool in an ironic way – he’s the Hoff, he’s cheesy and the Germans can’t get enough of his questionable pop music. But he was also cool in a good way because he was Michael Knight and drove a talking supercar.

It was a sort of underground cool, but then the masses started to catch on. He was advertising internet service providers one minute, then appearing on comedy shows the next. This is when T shirts came out with pictures of his grinning mug, and slogans such as “Don’t hassle the Hoff”

This popular coolness was the beginning of the end, but the point where he became completely uncool was the youtube vid of him drunk and eating a kebab off the floor, and the reports that he was seen out and about with wearing a “Don’t hassel the Hoff” himself. I think that was a big mistake, and it makes him look too knowing, like he’s in on the joke – the opposite of what made him cool in the first place

Which is why I’m surprised to see “Don’t hassel the Hoff” t shirts making a comeback in the shops. Funny t shirts at the time but isn’t he completely uncool now? Well I’d never stock them. But it made me think, are they really a few years behind the times or has the irony actually come full circle, and he’s so uncool that he’s the height of coolness. Oh my head hurts, what do you think?

Peter

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All the talk of the new Bond film Quantum of Solace has reminded me about Daniel Craig and his love of polo t shirts. Personally I think Daniel Craig is as far away from a good Bond as you can get. Casino Royale was a good movie but I think he’s more of a scowling poser than a charismatic gentleman-spy. But then what do I know, I grew up with Timothy Dalton as Bond.

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Anyway, when he wasn’t wearing skimpy shorts or a sharp suit, Craig spent a lot of Casino Royale dressed in a classic blue polo t shirt from Sunspel. As a fitted polo t shirt, it was developed for the Italian market in the 1950s. This makes it timeless and he wears a tight fitting version that makes his arms look strong and broadens his chest. Of course it helps if you’ve spent 6 months working out for 4 hours a day with a personal trainer.

I bet Daniel Craig just wears what the wardrobe department tells him to, but the person in charge certainly knows their stuff. Bond is a great barometer for quality, dignified clothing, and this is no exception. You’d never see him in a shell suit or trackie bottoms, but he can still do effortless casual wear. You can get a Sunspel polo t shirt for under £60, but if you are struggling to find the exact Sunspel polo t shirt there are similar versions out in the shops now.

Peter

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Well now that Strictly Come Dancing has returned, I thought I’d check out how the stylish dance professionals are doing on the fashion front.

I’m always amazed at how the so-called celebrities get all the attention and the professional dancers are thrown in as an afterthought. What a scandal!

Imagine being a ballroom dance champion and all the talent, dedication and hard work it takes. Then imagine partnering Christopher Parker, labouring for weeks on end trying to give him a thousandth of the skill you’ve got in your little finger, and knowing you’re getting paid half his money for the privilege!

The dance professionals are always immaculately turned out. In a recent photo shoot to launch the series, the male Strictly professionals looked vibrant, every single one of them in crisp one hundred per cent pure cotton shirts.

© Ben Sherman

There are those who say they prefer cotton mix in a shirt, adding polyester or some other inferior yarn to bring down the cost. And even Ben Sherman I notice are offering 78 per cent cotton in some of their latest range.

But believe me, apart from making it cheaper, adding polyester does nothing at all to a shirt apart from making it look like a poly-cotton shirt. I can tell just by looking, and the wearer will notice the poor quality feel, reduced breathability and overall poor appearance of his cheaper shirt.

You can’t do better for men’s style than the Strictly professionals, so follow their fashion tip and insist on pure cotton.

xxxx
Sarah

p.s. I’d better come clean here and admit that they weren’t ALL in cotton. Brendan Cole insisted on a black pure silk shirt to fit in with his tearaway image. But then that’s Brendan all over, isn’t it lol?

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Football legend Gary Lineker has at last announced his engagement to model Danielle Bux and Gary showed his usual style and sense of fashion when pictured after the announcement. Elegant in an open-necked black cotton shirt with wing collar, he looked every inch the husband to be.

I have a strange respect for Gary’s style. He’s not the trendiest man ever, and men’s clothing for Gary is never ultra modern, but always totally fashionable and invariably stylish and elegant. Most of the time he loves to wear well-cut suits and is equally at home with designer ties or open neck shirts depending on the occasion.

And off duty from his TV presenter and celebrity role, relaxing in designer jeans, he remains cool, calm and collected and manages always to look in complete control. His shirts may be long or short sleeved, but he makes sure that they’re high quality and as often as not he prefers designer shirts, He (or his stylist) understands that well cut shirts will retain their crisp good looks and never let you down while lesser shirts will lose their shape long before the colour fades.

Designer shirts are a favourite of the celebrity set, and as you know I keep my personal shopping clients up to date with the very latest ranges as they hit the shops. And it is for the superb cut every bit as much as the designer name, that these shirts are so popular with stars and public alike. I take the view that if it’s good enough for celebrities like Gary, then it’s good enough for my clients and my own guy Dan.

Xxxx
Sarah

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My admiration for the simple white t shirt is well known among the fans of men’s fashion who call into my men’s clothes shop. So it was with a lot of pleasure that I saw the 19 year old England football hero Theo Walcott celebrating after his historic hat trick for his country in a cool white t shirt.

Admittedly there was a small scene printed on the front of his white t shirt. But there he was, England star, football prodigy, in a white t shirt as recommended by yours truly. Not that I know Theo of course, but it certainly was gratifying to see that he’s already developed a keen sense of men’s fashion.

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With the colder weather fast approaching, I can see all around me short sleeved t shirts giving way to the long sleeved heavier variety. And as the nights draw in, road runners like me who are in training for a 10k race will be taking to their nightly (or early morning) run in a white t shirt for maximum visibility.

I noticed that Moschino have added a quality white t shirt to their designer t shirt range in stretch jersey. Made in pure cotton with just 3% elastane, they enjoy that small amount of stretch to makes all the difference to your comfort. Moschino t shirts are available with or without printed motif, and in a variety of bold colours as well as my favourite white.

So well done Theo, and a poster of him, complete with white t shirt will be the next thing to adorn the wall of my shop.

Peter

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Now I’ve got issues about collarless shirts. You’re never going to look really smart without a collar – that’s what I tell my clients, and that’s why we don’t stock that many collarless shirts. For anyone who remembers when collarless shirts came back into fashion in the late 90s (and called granddad shirts) you’re entitled to shudder when you remember them.

But this is what makes collarless shirts so interesting. They are rare right now and you’ll find that decent quality collarless shirts are now more evocative of the 1950s than a few dodgy years at the end of the millennium. Because they’re such a bold choice, with the right ensemble they can be an amazing compromise between smart and casual.

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That’s why it was no surprise to see one being worn by GQ’s ‘most stylish man of the year’ Brandon Flowers from the Killers. After picking up his award, Flowers was seen wearing a light cream collarless shirt under a customised Dolce & Gabbana jacket and there was certainly nothing 1990s about the way he looked. The guy’s probably got dozens of stylists and money to burn, so the fact that collarless shirts are moving back into the wardrobe of 2008’s most stylish man made me sit up and take notice.

So my advice on collarless shirts: They’re more than just an option – they’re coming back, but make sure you keep it subtle.

Xxxx
Sarah

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