Jacket and Waistcoat Modeled for Website

Yesterday, my friend Jake obligingly modeled the waistcoat and the jacket for the website...

Waistcoat Nearly Finished

I have nearly finished tweaking a waistcoat for the first collection. The lining is the 'exploded' Khyber Pass design I posted about earlier, the buttons are horn and the cut is close to the traditional Pakistani 'waskit'. Here it is modeled by the devastatingly handsome Alex Robertson during our trip to the Hindu Kush last month. He is flanked by a jeep driver of immense skill and Zar Wali Shah our guard, who was a very nice guy and also a great dancer...

Khyber Lining

I have been working on a lining which uses elements of a drawing I made  about 3 years ago of the Khyber Pass. The Khyber Pass links Afghanistan and Pakistan, in fact it is a bit far South to count as the Hindu Kush. However, it is iconic, so I have included it. The trucks which wind slowly along its narrow road are the same wonderfully decorated vehicles which wheeze up and over the Lowari Pass carrying our cloth out of Chitral and into the rest of the world. Below is an overall view of the lining
and some details.