Paul Smith Women's Designer Clothes at Tessuti

The name Paul Smith has been iconic in the world of fashion for decades, thanks to the easy styling and good looks of his fashions – and yet Paul Smith himself got into design almost by accident.

Born in 1946, he left school with no qualifications, and at the age of 15 was made by his father to take a job at a Nottingham clothes warehouse as an errand boy. Up till then, all he had dreamed of being was a racing cyclist – but a new dream was soon to take its place; Paul Smith jeans and Paul Smith jackets were still some way away, though.

He never forgot his home city, though, and credited it – and a good home background there – for having a big influence on his work, particularly with Paul Smith jackets and Paul Smith shirts. "When I look back I realise how influenced I was by Nottingham," he once wrote. "I'd cycle around, there'd be the coal miners, Derby tweeds and the elegance of the country squires. My brother worked for the Post Office and wore that blue cotton drill GPO shirt."

He kept on cycling, but an accident meant he had to give it up and concentrate on his work instead. He had met a lot of young people from the local art and design college, and their interests fascinated him. He began having a go at displaying clothes in the warehouse, and the boss was so impressed with his efforts that he put him charge of buying all the menswear. Paul Smith was still only 17.
One of those arty friends wanted to open a boutique, and Paul not only found the right premises and decorated them, but also became the shop manager. By the start of the new decade – the Seventies – he was ready to go it alone. Paul sank his £600 life savings into a small shop in a shabby back lane, and went on a fashion course.
>From such small beginnings the Paul Smith empire has grown, and today Smith is one of Britain’s most consistently successful designers – for instance, his clothes are sold in more than 200 shops in Japan alone, where he sells more than any other designer from Europe.
In those days before Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith jackets and shirts, though, Smith had spotted a unique opening, and was the only retailer selling many designer brands outside London.
He was also starting to design himself, and true to his Nottingham roots, having the garments made up in his local city. He concentrated on the kind of clothing he liked himself – his clothes all have strong roots in those gentleman’s tweeds and drill shirts he had seen all his life. His Paul Smith jeans took their cue from American jeans he would import for his own use.
After four years, he moved into the high street, where his jeans, Paul Smith jackets, shirts and cufflinks sold outstandingly well. Two years after that and he not only showed his collection in Paris, but also opened a shop in Covent Garden, London – a tiny rundown former baker’s shop that he bought for £25,000 with the help of a £10,000 loan from his tailor.
The shop soon expanded next door and Smith began to show that for him, good design was not just about Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith jackets, shirts and cufflinks. His new shop displayed ‘finds’ from around the world – such as the Filofax, which became a huge fashion trend, and the Dyson vacuum cleaner among them.
Fans of Paul Smith jackets, jeans, shirts and cufflinks will know they have – as well as great beauty – a certain appealing quirkiness.
Smith says his secret is being just a little bit silly.
"I take ingredients from upper-class tailoring, hand-made suits and so on, and bring them together with something silly," he once wrote. "So I might bring together a beautiful suit with a denim short. Or use floral prints inspired by old-fashion seed packets for men's shirts, or line tailored jackets with flamboyantly coloured silks, or ask a factory which specialises in V-necked school sweaters to knit them in crazy colours."
Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks are so popular that it’s inevitable that there are fakes around. So if you are on the lookout for Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks, how can you make sure you are getting the real deal?
The internet abounds with good tips, but one of the best tips of all is to use a reputable retailer such as the online designer store Tessuti.
Tessuti stocks a great range of Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks and has a website – www.tessuti.co.uk - where shoppers can browse at their leisure. It’s a great way of taking a look at whole collections so you can compare and contrast – all from your own armchair.

There’s a young yet classical feeling about Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks that give them a broad appeal. They still retain that air of gentlemen’s tailoring that has inspired him all his life, and Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks are renowned for the quality fabrics and materials used in their creation.
Naturally, with that quality of design and materials, Paul Smith clothes don’t come cheap – but at Tessuti, there are some remarkable bargains in Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks. Paul Smith jeans, for instance, are heavily discounted.
Tessuti also carry a wide range of Paul Smith shirts, with the classic slim-fitting Paul Smith shirts shape and a huge range of fabrics and patterns. If you shop online, it’s easy to keep up to date with the latest fashions and colours in Paul Smith shirts, which naturally change every season. Clearly displayed, the Paul Smith shirts on this season’s Tessuti Paul Smith shirts page are easy to scan down so you can find the pattern that really does it for you.

That Paul Smith playfulness is well on show in the range of Paul Smith cufflinks on the Tessuti Paul Smith cufflinks page. Paul Smith cufflinks are famous for their stripes – a Paul Smith trademark – but Paul Smith cufflinks come in a wide range of shapes; you can even get car-shaped Paul Smith cufflinks. And gentle English sauciness is also on offer – you can get Paul Smith cufflinks with discreetly nude ladies on them!

For the discerning dresser, it would be hard to imagine a world without Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks. And yet Smith is modest about his own talents – he describes himself merely as okay at design and okay at business but not exceptional at either…not quite what the fashion world believes, of course.

But Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks are global - the collection is wholesaled to 35 countries. Paul Smith shops are found in London, Nottingham, Paris, Milan, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Today, he remains fully involved in the Japanese business, doing everything from designing the clothes, choosing the fabrics, approving the shop locations to overseeing developments in the company. He also has impressive showrooms in major countries all around the world.
His Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks remain must-haves for fashionable people around the world, and online shopping is making them even more readily available for those who want to keep truly up to date with the latest collections of Paul Smith jackets, Paul Smith jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Paul Smith cufflinks.