Monthly Archives: April 2012

Last week the awesome Mercury Music Prize nominee Ghostpoet, played our monthly Islington Acoustic session. After the set, we caught up with Obaro, aka Ghostpoet and all round top guy, to chat about life on tour, peanut butter preferences and what’s been inspiring him since we last caught up.

This weekend is The London Coffee Festival, part of UK Coffee Week, celebrating the nation's love for the hot beverage and the social scene around it. To celebrate, we have partnered with the guys at Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar to offer our customers who buy in our Carnaby St store on Sunday, to a free cup* of the good black stuff, with any cake or slice purchased.

Last night saw the extremely talented Mercury Music Prize nominee, Ghostpoet take to the floor of our Islington Store for the second of our exclusive Islington Acoustic nights.

As the guys in our stores spend more time with the collection than almost anyone else, helping ease your sartorial woes and to find that perfect shirt, we think they’re in the best place to tell us how to wear it. This week we asked Mo from our Selfridges Bullring store to give us his thoughts on the collection, his staff picks, and an insight into the guy out of the four walls of Ben Sherman;

Taking place on the final Thursday of each month throughout the Summer, Islington Acoustic will be showcasing some fine examples of both established and emerging artists- in the intimate environment of our Islington Store. April's session, tomorrow night (Thursday 26th), is being played by the extremely talented, Mercury music prize nominee, Ghostpoet.

We’re very excited to announce that Ben Sherman has now officially launched in Mexico. Earlier this week our brand showcase opened in a beautiful venue in the coolest area in Mexico City called Polanco.

As the guys in our stores spend more time with the collection than almost anyone else, helping ease your sartorial woes and to find that perfect shirt, we think they’re in the best place to tell us how to wear it. This week we asked Stefan from our 115 Portobello Road store to give us his thoughts on the collection, his staff picks, and a little insight into the man behind those glasses.

We think of our store staff as the Brand Ambassadors of Ben Sherman, so we think it is important we know the pieces of our collection they love- and why. Every week, we will be talking to one of our Global Store Staff to find out their 3 favourite pieces of the current collection, why they like them and where they would wear them. This week, we spoke to Dennis from our Berlin Store.

One sunny evening at the end of March saw the Rig Out crew descend upon West London, for the launch of the much awaited Rig Out V. Held at our 115 Portobello Road concept store, the bold and the bearded came together to welcome the arrival of the magazines latest issue, entitled Five years too late: Tokyo Special.

The Plectrum Sessions is our monthly acoustic session, exclusive to our Islington, London store. Here is our video round up of the evening which saw Chris Peck & the Family Tree and Jenners Field play.