BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY: HUNTSMAN AND THE RAKE’S NEW YORK CITY-INSPIRED CAPSULE COLLECTION

Allen Ginsberg’s poem hits you like a concussive hollow-point double-tap to the soul. This is his paean and plea, his discourse and dogma cry out for insurrection and revolution, and it is set — and could only be set — in the greatest of all cities, the churning crucible of music, art, film and literature known as New York. Like Ginsberg, who commemorates this ultimate collision between high and low with, “angel headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night”, a slew of literary greats have selected the throbbing concrete metropolis as their muse. From Fitzgerald to Anne Ryan to Salinger, Hubert Selby, Jr. to Mario Puzo, from Mark Helprin’s to McInerney’s , New York has inspired innumerable efforts to perfectly encapsulate its eternal dynamism, its inimitable vibrancy and its extraordinary resilience. It is to New York that Savile Row tailors H. Huntsman — the legendary firm that has clothed the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Gianni Agnelli and Gregory Peck — and dedicate their latest collaboration, in the form of a capsule collection inspired by the city’s unmistakable, dazzling nocturnal skyline.