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I think I heard on the radio this morning that he was doing 'Farrell stuff' in House of Fraser, Glasgow today.
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I think I heard on the radio this morning that he was doing 'Farrell stuff' in House of Fraser, Glasgow today.

 

He's doing it in Brown Thomas in Grafton Street on Friday too. Closed to the public though.

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Tight security as Robbie unveils clothing collection inspired by Irish grandad in BT

 

 

A RING of steel is due to be erected around Brown Thomas Dublin for Robbie Williams's appearance at the upmarket store tomorrow.

 

The former Take That star will be following in the footsteps of style icon Victoria Beckham by unveiling his new collection to a select number of guests from the fashion press. Security will be tight for his appearance as it won't be open to members of the public.

 

"He'll be doing a photocall, but it's strictly invitation-only," said a spokeswoman.

 

The star, left, who'll be taking to the stage at the O2 Dublin tomorrow night, has called his new collection Farrell and says it was inspired by his Irish grandfather Jack.

 

Kilkenny-born Jack was a huge influence on Robbie when he was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent -- he even has his name tattooed across his wrists.

 

"My grandfather, Jack Farrell -- Jack the Giant Killer -- was a huge man, built like an Irish navvy," he said. "He was an honest man, he taught me to box."

 

And it's fingers crossed that he'll be able to fulfil his commitment to perform tomorrow night, given that his wife Ayda is heavily pregnant and due any day now.

 

 

Herald.ie

 

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...or-Farrell.html

 

Robbie Williams: I want Andy Murray in my pants :P

 

Pop star would love tennis champ to model his clothes

 

By GORDON SMART, Showbiz Editor

 

ANDY Murray has two big balls in his pocket and a mighty racket – so he sounds like an ideal man to model undercrackers.

 

Robbie Williams has spotted his potential in the caber department and reckons he’d be ace as the face of his fashion brand, Farrell.

 

I joined Robbie in Glasgow yesterday for the launch of his latest collection and he said: “Andy Murray would be a fantastic Farrell man. I would love Andy to wear Farrell clothes.

 

“My own first inspiration for a style icon was Sean Connery in James Bond. Nobody else came close. But if I can’t get Andy then I’d go for Daniel Craig.

 

“I’d love to do a range of underwear if I could stop smoking, lose two stone and ban chocolate from my diet... I’ll pose in them if I can keep my feet out of the pantry. Maybe this time next year. I’m nearly 40. It’s now or never.”

 

Robbie travelled north of the border for one night only to promote his label and play an intimate gig — including new single Candy — at the Barrowlands.

 

I joined Rob for the day. Women everywhere will be jealous to know he peeled down to his undercrackers in front of me after the promo to stick his tracksuit on — revealing a pair of his missus’s peach, stripy knee-high socks. :manson: But don’t let the girly socks fool you. He’s been on a mission in the gym.

 

In response to my remarks about him looking like Desperate Dan the other day, he said: “When I gave up the fags, I put on nearly two stone. I got in the gym and decided to go for it. I was never going to be one of the skinny-jeans-wearing mob so I thought I’d go for the look of a wrestler.

 

“I want to take off my T-shirt at the big gigs next year and feel proud rather than ashamed!”

 

The pressure to look good is bigger than ever now he’s the elder statesman.

 

He joked: “Olly Murs started this thing on stage about how many press-ups a pop star can do between songs. He did 40 — but I got 53 out in Leeds the other night. I had to start the new single again, though, I was f*****.” :lol:

 

 

 

Click here to see the crowds out to see Robbie outside Fraser's in Glasgow yesterday.

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/ho...icle4535566.ece

 

 

 

Robbie Williams: I don’t want a choc DJ

 

By NIAMH ANDERSON

 

POP heart-throb Robbie Williams admits he’d love to model undies — but only if he can give up CHOCOLATE.

 

The singer, 38, revealed he’s struggling to fight the flab because devoted fans keep sending him sweet treats like Minstrels.

 

Hundreds flocked to meet the Rock DJ star yesterday after he jetted in to Glasgow to promote his new clothing range.

 

But the ex-Take That favourite said he’d have to drop a few pounds before slipping into a pair of tiny whities.

 

Robbie said: “I’d love to do a range of underwear if I could stop smoking and ban chocolate from my diet.

 

“I put on two stone when I stopped smoking. But the fans keep sending me Minstrels.

 

“I can’t separate me from chocolate. I’ll pose if I can keep my feet out of the pantry. Maybe this time next year. I’m nearly 40. It’s now or never.”

 

The dad-to-be was in Glasgow for one night only to perform at the Barrowlands, as stunning wife Ayda Field is about to give birth at any minute.

 

But he still managed to fit in the autumn/winter launch of his Farrell label at the city’s House of Fraser store — as well as a brief meet and greet with fans.

 

Wearing a classy blazer teamed with blue jeans and a crisp white shirt, Robbie greeted hundreds of screaming fans with a wave and a peace-sign before the official debut.

 

But he revealed he was tempted to don a KILT after spotting one in a shop window.

 

He said: “I’d love to team it up with a Scotland strip and wear it on stage here for a gig.

 

“I’ve got quite a few kilts at home. I love them.”

 

Hundreds thronged the department store to see their idol.

 

 

Annette Somerville, 50, of Newton Stewart in Dumfries-shire, climbed a huge flower pot :basil: to get a better glimpse of the superstar.

 

She said: “I’m a huge fan of Robbie’s — I absolutely love him. I’ve had a look at the line and it looks great.”

 

Student Gemma Mackie, 19, of Kilmarnock, and pals queued outside the shop for FIVE HOURS.

 

She said: “It was worth it. It made my life to see him.”

 

The clothes line is named after Robbie’s grandad Jack Farrell and is a mix of military and classic themes.

 

 

 

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http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday...rrell-1-2530100

 

Sleeve notes: Robbie Williams on his new fashion range, Farrell.

 

By Ruth Walker

Published on Sunday 16 September 2012 12:08

 

WHAT’S a man to do? You’re a global rock superstar at the age of 18, you’ve made shedloads of cash (at one stage your personal fortune is estimated at £85 million). Then it all just kind of stops. You’ve done the sex, the drugs and the rock ’n’ roll rehab. What next?

 

It wasn’t acting or DJing or producing other artists that ticked that particular rich-but-bored box for Robert Peter Williams Esquire, formerly of Take That. “In 2006 I’d finished a massive world tour,” he says. “I’d played to three million people and I got to the point where I thought, ‘What do you do next? This is as big as it’s going to get.’ So I started doing documentaries about UFOs.”

 

Robbie Williams’s fascination with the supernatural goes back to childhood. His mother Janet read tarot cards and collected books on witchcraft and demons, and it terrified the youngster at the time. Then, in 2005, he asked Glasgow-born comicbook writer Grant Morrison to collaborate on illustrations for his Intensive Care album and the pair discussed magic spells together. At the time Williams was also said to be fascinated by ghosts.

 

He has since confessed that, rather than spiritual enlightenment, all it made him was fat and weird, with a big, bushy beard. And when we meet in Glasgow, he’s clean-shaven, with a new single about to be released, a first child about to be born and a third collection for his clothing label Farrell arriving in shops any day. His focus seems very much on terra firma. “The UFOs didn’t go down too well,” he says with such a straight face I can’t tell if he thinks it’s funny or frustrating. “I thought, ‘Maybe I’m investigating the wrong kind of paranormal stuff here.’ I live in America, where pop stars, actors, actresses all branch out into different things.”

 

Which is when someone suggested he might like to launch a range of clothing instead. “I thought, ‘I’ve worn clothes all my life, I must know how to do this.’”

 

It’s also a damn sight less weird than alien abduction. So, inspired by his grandfather Jack Farrell – whose name is tattooed on the inside of Williams’s wrist – he poached Burberry’s former design director, Ben Dickens, and created a wardrobe for the man’s man, full of items like the classic pea coat and Harrington jacket, the military trench and the grandad shirt. Savile Row tailoring, he says proudly, at high street prices. “My first version of a man on this planet was my grandad,” says Williams. “He was Jack the Giant-Killer. He was from an era where, even if you worked with planks, you had a tailor and you wore a three-piece suit every day.

 

“He was in the Second World War and worked down the pit. He was over 6ft tall – he was a big lad – and he taught me how to box. He wanted me to strengthen my legs.

 

“When Dad left, I was going to be raised by two women and I think he thought I was going to be soft, so he had me punching him. He was the first man in my life, and I just thought, ‘What would Grandad Jack want to wear?’”

 

But if Grandad Jack was the first fashion icon in his life, the most lasting one would have to be Bond, James Bond, a character the singer aped in his Millennium video, complete with malfunctioning jet backpack. Which one? “Sean, of course,” he says, with no hesitation and a knowing smile – he is in Scotland after all. “He was the butch Bond.”

 

Sitting on a distressed leather sofa with Dickens, the pair illustrate perfectly the two sides to Farrell – Williams dressed down in grey cable-knit, roll-neck cardigan and jeans; and Dickens smarter in long-line tailored jacket, grandad-collar shirt and skinny black jeans. Slightly bizarrely – perhaps in some kind of supernatural twist of fate – the shop mannequins behind them are dressed identically, almost like faceless twins. “We’ve actually only got five pieces of clothing,” quips Williams. “But they’re sample-size, we’re not.”

 

“The thing is,” adds Dickens, “who looks better?” Awkward.

 

So why this? Why now? “The single came out this week on radio,” says Williams, “the video’s out this week, I’ve got six weeks to wait until I get the approval or disapproval from the charts and, to be honest, I’ve been, more out of fear than anything, ‘Well, f*** you, if you don’t like the song. I’ll just do the clothes.’ This is what I’ll fall back on if everything goes tits up.

 

“It’s fun too. And I’m sure there’s loads of ego stuff in there. ‘I’ve got my own brand.’” He beams. “It means a lot to me. It’s my bit on the side that might end up being bigger than the other bit that’s not on the side, if you know what I mean.”

 

While admitting that he has no particular design skills, he says – and Dickens nods in agreement – that it is a fully collaborative project. “Basically, since Ben has arrived, I’ve DJ’d clothes. I’m not a designer, I didn’t study that, but I know fashion’s dirty little secret. Which is ‘inspiration pieces’. Quote, unquote. You go to vintage shops and you buy inspiration pieces, then you basically rip them off.

 

“So I’ve been through my wardrobe and what I’ve been wearing for the last 20 years and beyond, and I’ve remixed clothes. ‘I like this piece of clothing, what you do think?’ Then Ben comes back with a version. ‘I like it, but can you take that down a bit?’ ‘Why don’t we put a dogtooth lining on it?’ ‘Why don’t we put a secret stash pocket in every piece of clothing?’

 

“It’s enough for me to say, ‘I design clothes’ as much as other people can warrant saying they design them too. I’m talking to you, Victoria Beckham.

 

“I’m not doing this in a half-hearted way,” he adds. “I would hope that I’m smart enough and creative enough – with the help of my man here,” he plants a chummy hand firmly on Dickens’s thigh, “to come up with a unique brand. We’re not reinventing the wheel. There are only so many jackets, so many jeans and shirts a guy can have. But if we didn’t believe in it, we wouldn’t have done it.”

 

For all the talk of Savile Row tailoring and three-piece suits, however, Williams says the piece of Farrell clothing he loves more than any other and could not live without, the item that is on a constant wash cycle in the Williams twin tub in LA, is a plain grey tracksuit. “I’m very, very proud of it and I wear it every day. It’s on non-stop. I’ve got more than three sets now.

 

“I was watching Rocky the other day and I thought, ‘That’s where it came from.’ When he’s running up the stairs – that’s exactly the grey tracksuit we’ve got at Farrell. It must have been somewhere in my subconscious.”

 

He’s not quite ready to model it for us yet, though. “That would be something I would definitely do but I can’t separate me from chocolate. I gave up smoking and put on two stone. I went, ‘OK, obviously skinny jeans are not for me.’ So I went to the gym and am becoming a wrestler right now.

 

“Yes, I would love to,” he adds. “Hopefully this time next year. But I’m nearly 40, so …” and he suddenly bursts into song, “It’s now or never, just lose some weight ...”

 

So, apart from a strict diet and a new baby, what else is on the Farrell horizon? Childrenswear perhaps? “Right now we need to concentrate on getting the men’s right,” says Dickens. “We need to walk before we can run.

 

“It’s about men. It’s a tribute to Jack, so let’s get that right first. We might look at shoes, we might look at eyewear, but it’s a guy’s wardrobe.”

 

Designed by a guy who does a bit of singing on the side.

 

Farrell (www.farrell.com) is available at House of Fraser, Glasgow (www.houseoffraser.co.uk), from this month; Candy, the new single by Robbie Williams, is released on 29 October, the album Take the Crown is released on 5 November

 

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b]Close-Up preview: Q&A with Farrell duo Robbie Williams and Ben Dickens[/b]

 

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18 September 2012

 

Drapers gives you an exclusive sneak peak of our Close-Up interview with Robbie Williams and Ben Dickens about menswear brand Farrell, ahead of the full interview in this weekend’s edition.

How did the brand start?

 

RW - “It was put to me by my management, maybe you should try doing clothes,” says Williams. “It had always been something that I thought not to do because everybody’s doing it. And then I thought I wear clothes, I always have, I really like them, I have an idea about how I like to look and I’m delusional enough to believe that maybe other people would like my idea of how they should look. But I was delusional enough to want to have a singing career and it paid off. So, this once again is a small acorn of delusion that I’m hoping to build into a massive brand.”

 

How would you describe the brand?

 

RW – “I think the word I’d use is authenticity – it looks solid because it is. The clobber is of high quality – you know once you buy an item from Farrell it’s not going to fall apart. It’s honest, hardy, windswept and it’s interesting. It’s for the understated peacock. I’m incredibly proud of it.

What is your most memorable item of clothing?

 

RW –“I’ve loved a three quarter length jacket from Versace – very posh – in about 1994, a dog tooth Versace jacket and I felt like the bollocks.”

Who would you like to see wearing Farrell?

 

RW – “In terms of icons of the minute you’ve got Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Craig, JayZ, Mario Balotelli - as well as the regular guy on the street.”

What brands do you wear?

 

RW – “Recently I’ve been wearing APC, Folk, Oliver Spencer but I have to say that my everyday wear for the last two years has been Farrell.”

 

BD – “Doc Martins, a hell of a lot of vintage stuff like old Aquascutum, Belstaff etc”

 

Who is your style icon?

 

RW – “Mine’s been Steve McQueen for the last few years. But then to be honest it’s old British icons like McQueen and James Bond but then I look at the likes of Kanye West and JayZ and I want to be them too.”

 

BD – “Mine’s everyone from James Bond to the Kray’s to Steptoe & Son but I would also have to say my old man when he was younger. He’d spend - and he didn’t have a penny to rub together - a month’s wages on having a pair of trousers made by a tailor he found in Putney.”

 

 

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I noticed on my O2 priority moments that if I buy Farrell clothing of more than £30 from House of Fraser I get a free scarf. :D
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I must admit, I'm no expert on gentlemens' attire but I do think the Farrell range is quite classy ^_^
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See Robbie serving Fish & Chips

 

 

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/style/article...ng-summer-video

 

 

In any other circumstance, seeing a singer serving fish and chips on Bournemouth pier would be the sign of the star's career having taken a rather steep nosedive. However, for Robbie Williams, the opposite is true. After the huge success of his ninth studio album Take The Crown, selling out Wembley Stadium within hours of tickets going on sale and three strong seasons at the helm of clothing line Farrell, Stoke's finest export is going full-on Hitchcock and making a cameo in the video accompanying his label's latest lookbook. If you want to skip straight to the action, Williams' guest appearance - complete with apron - kicks off at 1:02.

 

 

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:lol: Great advert. Will it appear on the telly do you think? It should.
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I've looked online at some of the prices for these clothes, truly bonkers, who can afford to buy clothes at those prices :unsure:

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