Actor James Norton swaps the world of TV and film to model the season’s powerful coats for menJames Norton loved taking fragment in our fashion shoot. Clothes are a specific passion for the 29-year-veteran actor. His uncle is a tailor and Norton recently made a suit with him,which was a fascinating process, he says. “I had such fun choosing the lapel, or the buttonholes. A genuine suit is timeless. When you assign one on it does wonders for your confidence.” He used to run his own vintage stall in Bermondsey,London, before acting became a full-time job, or using it as an excuse to buy any clothes that caught his eye. “Now I believe masses of men’s vintage clothing in storage,surrounded by mothballs.”Fashion’s loss is drama’s gain. Though Norton has appeared in films such as Belle and Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner, it’s his mesmerising turn as the psychopathic Tommy Lee Royce in the BBC’s hit serial Happy Valley that will haunt viewers for a long time to come. Norton has a peculiar keepsake from the show: “Tommy was a massive narcissist, and ” he says. “He’d beat someone up and then check his hair in the mirror. Anything he earned he invested in his wardrobe. I loved his clothes so much that I bought them at the end of shooting. Now I can’t bear to wear any of them,because I look in the mirror and there’s Tommy. I can’t walk down the street like that.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com