Description
SQUALERÉ 167 — Elegance of the Condemned
The Slum Gentry Fur Coat marks the beginning of SQUALERÉ 167 — a garment born from ruin, memory, and misplaced aristocracy.
Cut in heavy fur and fastened with an unruly procession of over-sized, mismatched buttons, the coat refuses symmetry or politeness. Buttons appear in twos up the front, interrupted by large Italian resin horn-style fastenings, as if scavenged, replaced, and re-stitched over generations. Nothing here is pristine. Everything has survived.
Inside, a distressed linen lining hangs loose and frayed, deliberately worn and ruptured, bleeding outward through the construction. The side seams are external, unfinished by design, allowing linen to spill from the coat’s edges like exposed undergarments of a former life. The lining frays both inside and out — a quiet rebellion against tailoring etiquette.
From the cuffs, layers of shredded linen cascade, remnants of a dandy long fallen from favour. This is where the name Slum Gentry takes form: still gentry, but no longer of Mayfair. Aristocracy dragged through alleyways, worn thin by time, debt, and history.
Printed onto the lining is a wood-block style rendering of “Heads on Pikes” on London Bridge, circa 1610 — a brutal reminder of spectacle, punishment, and public warning. Power displayed through decay. Elegance through terror.
The coat retains its original name tag: Aloysius Grace — the ghost of a previous wearer, stitched permanently into the narrative. Whether noble, disgraced, or imagined is left deliberately unresolved.
This is not heritage fashion. This is heritage disturbed.
Crooked tailoring. Noble ruin. Distinguished deprivation.
MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION
Outer
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Fur outer shell
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Hand-finished, intentionally irregular surface
Lining
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Distressed linen lining
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Frayed and deconstructed by design
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Linen bleeds through external seams and edges
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Custom wood-block style print
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“Heads on Pikes, London Bridge, c.1610”
Buttons & Fastenings
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Oversized mismatched buttons
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Twin-button placements along front closure
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Italian resin horn-style buttons
Construction Details
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External side seams
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Raw, exposed tailoring
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Layered frayed linen at sleeve cuffs
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Name tag retained: Aloysius Grace
Fit & Silhouette
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Longline statement coat
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Relaxed, unstructured drape
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Designed to age, fray, and evolve with wear
Origin
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Designed in England
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Made to order
