Of not purchasing any clothes since 1999, Ian Brown said:
"The only item of clothing I've bought in the last 11 years is a Burberry cashmere tartan scarf, that’s the only thing, I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99." Does anyone else recall Brown only swaddling himself in a Burberry scarf between '98 and '99? I must've blanked out that visual.
Of receiving all his threads in the post, Brown said: "I get a box sent from Japan, like every eight weeks I get a big box, and there's my jeans and what not. Every item of clothing you've seen me in since 1999 will have been designed by Kazuki, he's one of the top streetwear designers of Japan. He now designs Adidas and Levi's as well as a lot of the Japanese labels, I met him in 1998… I'd like to come back as Japanese. It is like going to another planet because there's no words of English, so when you see like a wooden building, you don't know if it's a barber's, a restaurant, a hotel or someone's house."
So there you have it. Ian Brown's been a walking advertisement for brand Kazuki for the last ten years. Who knew? And he wants to come back "as Japanese"; he's obviously tired of spinning around on hotel lobby stools demanding a trim, in one of Japan's more rural villages.
Here's Ian showing off an ill-fitting suit, which doesn't look Japanese in origin, outside a night club last January... What's... what's that you got with you, there, Ian? It, eh, it looks like a shopping bag you got there. is that a shopping bag? From Oliver Bonas, is it? I hope that's not clothes from his clothes range you've got in there... It's a gift for the missus for making a detour to a club, isn't it?! AAaaaaahhh, thought so.
