English Laundry
Christopher Wicks, owner and designer of English Laundry, was born a
child of the sixties in Manchester, England. His childhood pastime of
sketching shirts, shoes, and guitars became a life-long career in
designing men’s and women’s apparel. At 22 years old, Chris designed
men’s formal shirts for one of England’s largest gentlemen’s shirt
manufacturers. He went on to design for such sportswear brands as LA
Gear, Ocean Pacific and Hang Ten. Now under his company banner Defiance USA, Wicks
designs and manufactures all the clothing for: Fender, Jimi Hendrix
“The Experience”: A Clothing Collection, Davinci Shirts, and English
Laundry, the jewel in the Defiance Crown. The English Laundry and
English Rose designs reflect his upbringing in the UK. You will see
references to his home town of Manchester as well as English influences
– Mods, Rocker’s, and of course Soccer. Christopher Wicks has also
successfully licensed the English Laundry brand for leather goods,
accessories, ties and scarves, suits, luxury watches, outerwear and
fragrances.
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