Belstaff. 1924-2024 Legacy Collection.

The year is 1924 and the global economy is stabilising, ushering in a period that will go down in history as the "Roaring Twenties". Charlie Chaplin enters into a second marriage, this time with the American actress Lita Grey. Harry Grosberg launches the Belstaff brand in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and Thomas Mann publishes his novel "The Magic Mountain". Literature, music and the visual arts flourish after the miserable years of war. It is 13 years before Agatha Christie completes her new book "Death on the Nile" in Egypt's Old Cataract Hotel, with its magnificent view of the island of Elephantine.

Ernest Hemingway, newly married to Hedley Richardson, is living in Paris for the third year, writing as the European correspondent for the American "Toronto Star". Meanwhile, in Kirchanschöring in Upper Bavaria, the traditional Meindl brand can look back on almost 250 years of company history. Harry Grosberg's windproof and waterproof jackets, mainly for bikers, pilots and the military, are now topping his own sales figures year after year. Always on the lookout for the ideal fabric for outdoor clothing, his waxed, cool frocks are now worn not only in England.

Amelia Earhart once said "Every adventure is worth it". With this in mind, our buyers have been bringing together the essence of the label's collections with the phoenix for 20 years.