Nicholas Daley’s Island Ties Run Deep
Since launching his eponymous brand in 2015, Jamaican-Scottish designer Nicholas Daley has made heritage the center of his design sphere. 10 years later, very little has changed — which is good.
Daley's Fall/Winter 2025 collection, "ISLAND TIES," is an ode to the connective spirit of identity, Caribbean-British culture, and craftsmanship.
These tenants materialize through street-style flavored wide-leg mohair trousers, Scottish-inspired lambswool tartans, and knitted cardigan vests in the colors of the Jamaican flag.
This intermingling of cultures via clothing not only highlights Daley's wealth of creative diversity, it also underscores fashion's role as a tool for connectivity.
By combining various aspects of his own culture with overarching fashion principles like oversized proportions and sublime tailoring, Daley’s pieces highlight the common ground that unites fashion throughout the diaspora: Really good clothes.
The BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund winner has a knack for turning culturally significant threads into stylish pieces that hold major weight in both heritage and style and ISLAND TIES is no different.
Plaid kilts and Jamaican-style "Bandana" ponchos are fashioned into practical streetwear, blending traditional motifs with modern freshness.
Daley's multicultural exploration isn't exclusive to his FW25 collection, and the designer has shared his appetite for blending different cultural backgrounds with other brands.
From one side of the Atlantic to the other, Daley’s pieces fuse contrasting style cultures into a cohesive vision that could strike a chord anywhere in the world.
