#7L003: Mike Meikleham - Ep 3

7L founder Jamie Lundy, Creative director Mike Meikleham and podcast host Nige Wingman Clucas continue their chat with Professor Andrew Groves.

They discuss The Westminster Archive.

The Westminster Menswear Archive was founded to establish and maintain a collection of garments and related artefacts to encourage and develop the study of menswear design from a technical and functional point of view; to advance the general knowledge of menswear as a design discipline, and to serve as a resource tool to inform contemporary menswear design.

The archive will strive to inform, encourage and inspire a diverse range of students, industry professionals, researchers and other users in order to support their creativity, learning and research in fashion and related fields.  It will also highlight the importance and relevance of the Westminster Menswear Archive within contemporary fashion, fashion education, research and scholarship and fashion practice, as well as with the general public.

The Westminster Menswear Archive has examples of some of the most important and exciting menswear garments covering the last 100 years. 

7L founder Jamie Lundy, creative director Mike Meikleham and host Nige Wingman Clucas chat with Professor Andrew Groves.

Andrew Groves is a British professor of fashion design, currently based at the university of Westminster, where he is the director of the Westminster archive, the worlds first publicly accessible menswear archive.

Thom Rylance and Katie Lloyd from top indie pop band The Lottery Winners dropped by for a chat with host Nige Wingman Clucas. They talk about fashion, their up and coming tour, festivals and latest album 'Anxiety Replacement Therapy'.

They also give an insight into what its like collaborating with music icons Shaun Ryder and Boy George.

Our new Creative Director Mike Meikleham gives his background in fashion design and how he became the CD behind 7L.

BEFORE THE BLUE LIGHTS

The podcast team delve deep into 7L founder Jamie Lundy's life, starting from childhood to fatherhood, engineering awards until things started tumbling down and his life took a turn for the worst.

“Fashion, function, performance and style are all the ingredients that British Performance Brand 7L mix together seamlessly. In episode 2, Nige and Oli talk to the mastermind behind it all, Jamie Lundy, where he continues to talks about life changing events, mental health, photography and life experiences that ultimately inspired him to stay sober, giving birth to what is fast becoming an Iconic British label of the future”.