Quail

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Industry Fashion
Occupation Founder, Quail
Location United Kingdom
Introduction Quail is an artisan mens shirt label from England. I operate a tiny design team who manufacture quality shirts in a live/work English studio. Find innovative, made to order shirts for fit and comfort using organic and heritage cottons that are fair on everyone from the cotton grower to the English sewist. Quail By Mail.
Interests Aboriginal Art, Animals, Antiques, Architecture, Art, Art History, Backpacking, Baking, Birds, Borough Market, Breadmaking, British Design, Charles Darwin, Cheese, Cheese Making, Cooking, David Attenborough, Design, Eco Fashion, Egyptian Art, Ethical, Ethical Fashion, Fabric, Fair Trade, Fairtrade, Fairtrade Cotton, Farmers Markets, Fashion, Fine Art, Folk Art, Gardening, Glastonbury, Green, Herb Gardens, Graphic Design, Handmade, Henri Rouseau, Herbs, History, Homemade, Jacques Cousteau, Japanese Textiles, Nature, Natural History, Organic, Organic Cotton, Organic Fashion, Organic Gardening, Oxfam, Patisserie, Paul Gauguin, Primitive Art, Peter Gabriel, Photography, Prehistoric Art, Recycling, Retro, Roses, Sailing, Savile Row, Sewing, Spices, Stephen Fry, Sustainability, Tailoring, Tall Ships, Textiles, Tropical Gardening, Travelling, Tweed, United Nations, Vegetable Gardening, Wildlife
Favorite Movies A Fish Called Wanda, Amelie, A Town Like Alice, Awakenings, Big Wednesday, Billy Elliot, Bleak House, Dirty Dancing, Educating Rita, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Ghost Busters, Ice Cold in Alex, Lost in Translation, Nuovomondo, Planet of the Apes, Point Break, Rear Window, Road to Perdition, Roman Holiday, Saving Private Ryan, Secretary, Shopgirl, The Big Blue, The Breakfast Club, The Golden Door, The Graduate, The Great Escape, The Incredibles, The Italian Job, Thelma & Louise, The Piano, The Shawshank Redemption, Thomas Crown Affair, Top Hat, True Romance, Vera Drake, Withnail and I, Witness, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favorite Music 1980s, 54-40, African, ABBA, Air, Anthony and the Johnsons, Beach Boys, Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Chillout, Classic Rock, Dimitri from Paris, Elbow, Feeder, Joan Armatrading, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Keane, The Killers, Lemon Jelly, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Michael Hedges, Morcheeba, Muse, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, Queen, Radiohead, REM, Sigor Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, Snow Patrol, Thievery Corporation, The The, The Tragically Hip, U2, Van Morrison, The Who, WOMAD
Favorite Books Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Charlotte's Web, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Perfume

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