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Hooray for Henry Holland

Source: observer.guardian.co.uk

Nov 08, 2009

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Anyone who's anyone wears his rhyming slogan T-shirts. Supermodel Agyness Deyn is his best friend. And now this young peacock is putting the debonair into Debenhams…

Henry Holland thinks that, on reflection, he did not inherit his style from his father. "He told me the other day he'd be wearing his new jacket to my sister's 30th birthday party. I said, 'Which one'?' He said, 'The pink one.'" Holland leans across the table with the air of someone sharing an embarrassing secret. "It's not actually pink," he says, dropping his voice to a whisper. "It's more a deep red. And I said, 'Is it new?' My dad said, 'Well, I've only had it four years.'" Holland shakes his head with affectionate exasperation. "He's a solicitor," he says, as if that explains everything.

Holland junior would never be mistaken for anything so prosaic. At 26, he is one of the most sought-after young designers in Britain and is styled accordingly. Today, he is sporting his trademark vertical quiff, a feat of follicular engineering that one imagines can only be achieved with a remarkable amounts

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