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Castle Hill Station, Southern Alps New Zealand.

Whats better than 5 days in the mountains with a case of red wine & nothing to do but explore? Not much really. Some shots from a weekend at Castle Hill Station. 

We buy all of Castle Hill's annual clip & knit the supersoft merino into our trademark designs.

Located at the start of the Southern Alps about 1.5hrs out of Christchurch, its a landscape of soaring mountains, endless fields & eery boulder "forests" that seem as if a group of giants were playing marbles & just walked away. 

Big thanks to Chrissy & John for their always welcoming hospitality & great conversation over dinner & wine.  

All images were shot on 35mm film on an old OM-1 camera from 1983. Long Live Film!

Cape Tribulation, in Far North Queensland.

More in the set. 

The shots behind the shots from our latest Summer campaign. Thanks to Hewgs. 

Last dusty volume photo. 

Hundreds of years of fabric inspiration from another one of our Italian fabric mills.

More archives. This volume is from 1907. 

Leather-bound fabric archives from one of our favourite shirting mills.

R&G is en-route to Italy for some A/W 2013 fabric hunting...

Flying over the Italian Alps is always cool. 

Teaser for the R&G Spring Summer 2012/13 Shoot. 

Japanese Fabric shirts just dropped!

Red-based check bonded with a minimal charcoal stripe for an ultra-soft shirt thats been washed just enough. 

Tonal Blue & White based check with an overprint that been acid washed.

Intricate fabrics as only the Japanese know how to make. Fusing vintage techniques & the latest creative technology. Both fabrics woven on vintage narrow-width shuttle looms. 

Turning Japanese. 

100% Cotton Italian fabric shirts in melange yarn.

Pocket & workwear stitch detail in heavyweight contrast thread.

Vintage catseye buttons & button-down collar.

The 'in-between' seasons shirt.

A few extra (colour!) shots from the roadtrip down Great Ocean. 

Jeans or Chinos? Both. In one. 

JINOS.

Stopped off at Bells on the way back to the big smoke- respect to the guys out in their wetties.