In Pictures: Ben Sherman revs up new season with limited-edition Ace Café collaboration collection
Ben Sherman has launched a new limited-edition collection with Ace Café, the world’s most famous motor café which was established at Ace Corner on the North Circular Road in North London in 1938.
The café has been a notorious meeting place and hangout for rockers, bikers and scooter boys over the years, and the Ben Sherman x Ace Café collection is described as "a timeless fusion of Mod and biker culture spanning from the late '50s to present day".
It includes seven meticulously designed pieces, each carefully crafted in a sleek black and white colour palette - drawing inspiration from Ace Cafe's iconic checkerboard pattern.
There’s knitted zip polos, 50s-style viscose bowling shirts, and t-shirts with graphics paying homage to the early 60s Mod era in British youth culture.
Ben Sherman was established in 1963, and one t-shirt references Brighton - where the Mods and Rockers ran pitched battles against each other on Bank Holiday weekends during the early 1960s.
The exclusive collaboration "offers a limited-edition fashion statement where style, culture, and history converge in a compelling showcase".
The collection is now available at the new Ben Sherman store that opened last month at 19-20 Dukes Lane in Brighton, a stone’s throw from Ben Sherman’s first-ever store back in 1963, called Millions of Shirts Inc. on Duke Street.
It is also available at the brand’s new Soho store at 97 Berwick Street, which opened at the end of August, as well as on the Ben Sherman and Ace Café Shop websites.