Our  new Lookbook below, was shot at our home in Greenwich, featuring some key items from Sessun, Edwin, Vanishing Elephant, Penfield, Carhartt, Grenson, Pointer and Garbstore. All the looks were finished off with Edblad and Alex Monroe jewellery, Triwa Watches and Han Sunglasses.

All items are now available in store and will be online shortly. If you want to be kept up to date with all Meet Bernard’s news, join our mailing list today. Just fill out your name and email at the top right of this page!

Brands such as Fred Perry, Vanishing Elephant, Farah, Carhartt, Edwin and Pointer have already started dropping new items to Bernard’s HQ and are in store for you to pick up.

Edwin and Pointer have just released short films wih a focus on their Summer collections…

Edwin:

Pointer:

Concieved in 2008,  HAN is everything that form the fundamentals of scandinavian design.  Simple, innovative crafted glasses drawing on traditional production techniques.

Han Sunglasses will be arriving at Meet Bernard soon. To get you excited, here’s a film they produced for their AW12 collection:

Han Kjøbenhavn Short film AW12

Now available in our Womenswear Store!

OUT WITH THE OLD……sale continues

There’s not long now till spring is here. Now up to 60% off. Come and empty our cuboards & fill your shelves!

Enter the Meet Bernard Xmas Competition

It’s your chance to win a Brook’s England Bicycle Set worth over £200!

Get a makeover for your bike this Christmas with a brand new Brooks England ‘B17’ Saddle, Saddle bag, ‘Slender Grips’ and ‘ankle strap’, all Meet Bernard colours (green and black of course)!

For you chance to win, all you have to do is share this post/picture and ‘like’ or ‘follow’ us on any of our social media platforms.

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The competition will run from Saturday 1^st December till Sunday 18^th December at 4pm. The winner will be drawn at random on the 18^th December at 5pm and contacted via Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest or Tumblr.

The more social media platforms you follow us on/repost the competition picture, the greater your chance of winning. You can retweet, post, like and follow as much as you like!

At meetbernard.com we are very passionate about jeans with our favourite brands being Nudie, Edwin and Carhartt. As you may know, breaking in a pair of new jeans can be a challenge, but once you do, they are like a second skin. Regardless of your lifestyle, your jeans become a log of months gone by. Taking care of your denim is essential especially if you are going to invest in a great pair of jeans and want them to last, however there may be more than you think required to prolong the life of your most love jeans.

Clean freaks beware, the best advice to give about washing your jeans, is to not wash them! Or at least wait 6 months before washing them at all. In fact, scientists have tested the bacteria levels of jeans worn everyday for 15 months and another pair for 13 days and found the bacteria levels in both pairs after washing to be almost identical at a ‘normal’ level.

Before any washing instructions, you should know a little bit more about your special pair of jeans… Unwashed denim or ‘raw’ denim is unwashed denim fabric that has not been shrunk or exposed to water after the drying process. It is typically very dark, and made on old style shuttle looms. Selvedge denim, which is more often than not raw and is priced at a premium because of low production runs, the need to use older equipment and more fabric per pair, and the fact that it is made in higher labour cost countries. However, raw denim overall is more durable, and many raw denim advocates claim to wear their jeans thousands of times before they wear out, thus making them a strong value when you look at the number of wears vs the amount paid.

Even for the more liberal clothes washers out there, there comes a point where you just need to wash your jeans, whether it is due to a smell or the mere thought of the bacteria. We should state that we do not necessarily condone washing raw denim; we instead advise that you wear them for at least 6 months, thereby achieving the second-skin feel.

Typically with blue jeans, the indigo dye cannot be completely fixated onto the cotton fibres so after you wash your denim, you are losing that deep blue/black colour as well as the ridged feel due to starch loss. Hence you want to wash your jeans for at least 6 months prior to washing, but no longer than 1 year, otherwise the crotch in your denim will rip or ‘blow out’. But when you are ready to wash your jeans it is important that you follow strict instructions.

Our research shows that it is best to hand wash your jeans in bathtub if possible… The guys at Rawr Denim produced these videos:

Washing – do not be afraid to machine wash. Keep it at a low temperature, go easy on the detergent and turn them inside out. This will help the indigo dye stay within the denim.

Separate – Due to the natural indigo bleeding during washing, always wash your raw denim separate from other clothing pieces. If you are lucky enough to own more than one pair, then wash them together.

Water temperature – General rule of thumb: the hotter the water, the greater the shrinkage.

Drying – Always hang dry flat. Do not place on a heat radiator, use a dryer, or crumple when drying as it will damage the fabric and ruin the fit, fade, contrast and overall quality.

Spillage – if you ever spill any liquids etc. on your jeans, then try rubbing or dabbing with a kitchen towel. Do not use soap or any other cleaning solution since you will risk losing some indigo dye and create an uneven fade.

Smell – I you find that your denim starts to smell before the 6 month mark, then the best solution is to use a light cleaning spray such as Febreze and hang dry flat (preferably outside for 24 hours).

Hemming – do not hem your raw denim jeans prior to washing as the denim will naturally shrink in length.

This weekend, Bernard is teaming up with Carhartt! We’ll be giving away free gifts with every Carhartt purchase and the more you spend the better the gift. You could be walking out with a Carhartt speaker, book, lighter or even a new ‘U’ lock!

There are alot of freebies to give away, but get in quick, it’s just this weekend.

Meet Bernard’s Carhartt weekend starts this Friday 2nd November – Sunday 4th. Store opens from 10am-6pm

23 Nelson Road
Greenwich
London
SE10 9JB

Terms and Conditions:

Available exclusively to Meet Bernard store for a limited period. Offer available from Friday 2^nd November to Sunday 4^th November in-store only. Free gifts available upon any purchase of Carhartt product. Offer not available online. Free Gift allocation upon staff discretion, while stocks last. Any returns are subject to store returns policy.

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Flying under the same name as our successful menswear store Meet Bernard, our new ladies shop is open and is happily sitting next door! From Fred Perry and Carhartt to Sessun, Penfield, Nudie and Pointer, all our stock is ethically-sourced and often European-made pieces. Scandinavian brands such as Won Hundred and Libertine Libertine have an edgy tailoring to them that will look great on so many people!

The new store is at 22 Neslon Road, Greenwich, SE10. Open seven days a week, 10-6.

Come see us for a beer!