DiscoveryLAB presents: DERRICK

DERRICK is the work of London-based menswear designer Luke Derrick. Originally hailing from Oxford, he graduated from the MA Central Saint Martins in 2021, having trained at the at some of menswear’s most famed traditionalist institutions: the likes of Brioni, Alexander McQueen, Dunhill, Rapha, and Savile Row. 

Opening the LFW schedule with DiscoveryLAB, this is DERRICK's digital debut.

From his studio in East London, DERRICK constructs wardrobes that experiment with ideas of lazy elegance, reluctant machismo, and the canon of masculine chic.
This label rigourously works to find new functionality in the elegant, and new formality in the casual. Iconic English textile mills such as Hainsworth of Yorkshire, Pongees silk,
and Adamley of Macclesfield are individually sought out and formally collaborated to
re-write the narrative of British traditionalism. Heritage as a source of innovation, harnessing previously untested possibilities of English cloth.

The DERRICK man is urban. He is professional; he is exposed to, or works within, culture.
He enjoys his self-curation and taking agency over his personal environment and wardrobe, just as he desires to manifest his ideas and creations in the wider world.
He engages in tacit subversion and subtle non-conformity as an expression of his identity.
He gets his meeting primer five minutes before in the taxi.
He eats his breakfast en route. He is late, but ahead of his time. His day blurs from zoom calls to meetings to gallery openings. His schedule is overbooked.
Yet somehow, he always manages to look chic,
revelling in the urgency of modern life.

He dresses to get away with it. DERRICK is what he wears.