The Beauty of what we do.

We tend to meet interesting characters along the way, as we offer a bespoke service we get people coming in with interesting concepts.

Photographer Jehad Nga, is one of those interesting characters whose creations are very exciting to do. Having photographed Somali Pirates, worked with Nike, Vanity Fair and various other prestigious clients he had a few impressive stories to tell.

The beauty being: we meet new creative people, they collaborate with us to create beautiful garments.

Here are a few of the jackets we have created:

Jehad NGA x House of Billiam = Beauty

WonderMAN

We recently made a few bits for British pop artist Tinie Tempah. His new video is based on the Billion Dollar Man and has a very 70's appeal, which is captured throughout and styled by Damian Collins.

The jackets looked great in the video. One made in monotone red and the other in navy and off white. We hope to work with Tinie and Damian again as they have a very strong creative idea of what they want.

Full video:

WONDERWHAT we will do next :)

House of Billiam x Soulland @ Capsule

Images from Capsule NY of our collaboration with Danish label Soulland, creative director of the company pretty much gave us license to do whatever we wanted but keeping it all black.

Features were added such as a split back panel, invisible side seam zips and cable knit rib. Focusing on quality of fabric and production once again.

Opening Ceremony have already ticked the buy box on this one amongst others ;)

New York, the concrete jungle where HoB is sold.

Perfecto perfected

First of all Happy New Year to all readers hope you had a wonderful break.

Its back to work and we have been quite busy sorting samples for Japan, collaborations and also interesting bespoke work.

Amidst all the mayhem we have been working on a biker style jacket, based on the Perfecto and taking influence from iconic wearers such as Marlon Brando.

Anyway we aimed to make it more fitted and less boxy, using the traditional House of Billiam aesthetic we feel we have created a wonderful piece, and after only 2 pattern drafts!

images have been taken but wont be shown just yet, building the suspense, hype whatever you may call it!

"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent"

Elfs have been working hard.

Along with the collaborations with Liberty and Soulland we have been busy making bespoke items for various customers, its all been pretty stressful leading upto Christmas but also had a few fun projects given to us by interesting customers. Heres a few wonderful pieces ;)

Billiam Santa always delivers.

H.O.B x Soulland

Autumn-Winter 2011 we will be collaborating with Danish brand Soulland, and thats all the info your getting for now :)

SOULLAND

Take Liberty's

We have confirmed a collaboration with Liberty of London.

There will be 5 variations of the Varsity jacket, 3 with a low collar and 2 with a high collar, all with leather nappa sleeves and one them will be lined with Liberty floral fabric.

These should be in store for January.

Happy dance time?

Maybe :)

Ribbed

We have been working on ribbing samples for a collaboration next year. We wanted something subtly different, and also quite detailed. So we opted for a cable knit weave in high quality fabric. For me right now its the attention to detail rather then over-designing a garment keeping it clean with nice colours and textures.

This will make an appearance next year. We hope you like as it is......

Ribbed for your Pleasure.

Hangtag

I suppose an important part of branding is the visual aspect of your labels, shopping bags and hangtags etc.

So we will be collaborating with a store, a rather BIG store in the heart of London and personally one of my favourite shopping experiences, maybe its the cake, because when it comes to cake i'm like a hungry obese child.

Anyway the new hangtags have been designed and the feeling we were trying to go for was a personal message to the buyer in a letter format, stamped and signed by House of Billiam.

Yours sincerely.

Rav.

More coverage

On one of our favourite streetwear sites. Highsnobiety exclusively wrote about our collaboration with Harvest.

Full article HERE

Keep your bike warm this winter

The perfect winter accessory. For your bike that is.

Custom made to suit your bikes colorway, size and shape nicely finished with a HOB stud. Heres an example in Harris Tweed.

Ride warmer.

I had to

Ok so as soon as I saw these I thought, yeah I got to get these. The price I knew would be extortionate, but worth it. So I slept on them for a while, and then decided to pop to the store and try them on.

That was it.

Game over.

Glamorous Punk.

Bespoke

We and yourself imagine the desired piece. We create and construct, taking your 2-D image to a 3-D masterpiece. We obviously tell you if your initial idea works, but you pretty much get what you want and a bag of chips. No chips really, you basically get what you want and more, made to your measurements.

Start with a blank canvas. Have an initial vision in your mind, fabric wise and any extra details you would like but be careful not to over-design. This is hardly Ed Hardy. Sophisticated, subtle touches always work better with an emphasis on quality within fabric.

any questions? any queries? cant sleep thinking of what colorway you would like?

info@houseofbilliam.com

Its a personal piece.

You and I are the creator, the thrill is to make it up.

Snob society

More recognition, the tonal concept was something I initially researched when studying my BA. I was a big fan of Giuliano Fujiwara, and still am, you can see from post some time ago entitled color palette.

Then looked at various british themes from the Red Arrows to the Marines and tied it in with the tonal palette.

HIGHSNOBIETY

Hype-r!

Always hyper, a tad more right now due to the fact our hard work is starting to get a bit more recognition.

We just posted of an order to Germany for Harvest store, varsity jackets the same colour as their bike.

Also the fact we are on website I check daily. Its all quite exciting and a feeling of accomplishment. HypeBeast displaying our jackets and describing our brief description of collaboration with Chimp.

CLICK Link below:

HYPEBEAST

hyper-pleased ;)