Presenting Millhouse S/S2010 - 'Tee Marie'

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A well-dressed man wears Millhouse. It's as simple as that. Right up there with John Varvatos & Oswald Boateng in terms of silhouette, detailing and tailoring, the Millhouse Clothing Company is where the nattily-outfitted man shops - period.

Presenting the some of the best Caribbean's menswear collections since 1997, the husband-and-wife team of Gregory & Coline Mills are set to release their S/S 2010 Resort Collection this Saturday; read on for more:

November 25, 2009. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: Millhouse Clothing, the Caribbean’s premier menswear label, will unveil ‘Tee Marie,’ the Spring/Summer 2010 Resort collection at ‘An Entrepreneurial Symposium Style T& T’ hosted by Senator The Honourable Hazel Manning, for the spouses of the 52 common wealth dignitaries, attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on Saturday November 28, 2009, at the Diplomatic Centre, St. Ann’s at 10:30am. The symposium is a part of CHOGM’s spouses’ programme.

The ‘Tee Marie’ collection was inspired by the indigenous flora of Trinidad and Tobago. Tee Marie is a wild vine that sprouts a small lavender flower. It is a popular, unassuming, unruly but most beloved plant in the Caribbean, which folds shut when touched.

“We chose Tee Marie as we wanted to go 'green', create a more natural, eco friendly and inexpensive collection. We also wanted to add a little texture to our design repertoire,” said designer, Coline Mills.

The Tee Marie collection has lot of texture, with natural fibres like cotton linen. White, which is the staple of the summer season, is the predominant colour in the collection. Hand paintings, lavender stencilled designs of the plant, brown and lime greens are captured in the detail of the garments.

The look is more relaxed. A more engineered cut, was used for the trousers, with splices of fabric at the side seams or folded onto itself, cut at the ankles, with rounded hemline in some instances. The blazers are tapered and clean, shirts are stencilled or hand painted and given a unique fresh look. And for the first time the brand has introduced a limited edition of comfortable canvassed sneakers to complete the look.

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Note to Greg: send me images of those 'comfortable canvassed sneakers' - stat! Folks are curious!

LMN Harris

NB Image courtesy Millhouse