How many people look as stylish as Mr. Charles PG-Hamilton as he faced mortal danger head on down the Cresta run.

The Cresta Run was established in 1885 in St Moritz, and has a total drop of 514 ft. It is fashioned new every year using the natural contours of the landscape with tobogganists reaching speeds of up to 80 m.p.h, as they career down the run head first.

Charles completed the run, in a rather dashing outfit and in one piece.

To Florence for the Pitti Uomo menswear shows. Almost every conceivable men's luxury brand is on display, and with a view to showing we had a good look around. The double breasted suit made by Russell in the Teal Modernist made quite an impression with the numerous photographers blogging the event.

Just arrived, our beautiful new Shetland designs the Shetland Two-Step in green and the Shetland Jig in elegant grey. These most sophisticated new designs would make the most fabulous coat and they are entirely British, being woven from Shetland Wool.

How cool are these! One of the biggest collaborations we have done are about to hit the streets. Dashing Converse trainers. Even more exciting you will be able to buy them straight from us in a very short time. We will put them up in our ready to wear shop section.Now everyone can have something dashing for christmas.

Basking in the October sun, I thought you may like to see a preview of our summer suit. It's a cotton jacquard weave inspired by thoughts of a threadbare Robinson Crusoe. We will have the jacket as a ready to wear item next year and of course you can buy some cloth for your tailor to make a suitably adventurous creation.

The weave studio had a very busy season working with the wonderful Holly Fulton on her Autumn/Winter 2011 tweed, inspired by Chanel’s trips to Scotland and weave hero Bernat Klein. We hand wove the tweed for dresses seen here in our design studio. The studio also helped to develop couture hand woven fabrics for the Alexander McQueen A/W 2011 show in Paris.

On 16th March Kirsty presented at the Close to Home/Made in the UK meeting as part of a new All Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion at the House of Lords. Kirsty was invited to talk about Dashing Tweeds policy of manufacturing in the UK to an audience of MPs and industry members.

We are all excitedly waiting to see what will be worn at the Royal Wedding this Friday. I’m sure Prince William will look very dashing but perhaps not as exciting as Neil marrying Lindsay in his beautifully tailored Dashing suit  or Arron and his best men all wearing Dashing Tweeds.

'In the true nature of the pop up shop phenomenon we where very happy to help Clare and Carrie with their shop last week. Although only an ephemeral affair the shop attracted many hundreds of people last weekend in London's East End. As can be seen George Lamb was a great fan.

A couple of weeks ago London was delighted and entertained by hundreds of well dressed cyclists peddling through the city. We are very proud to be one of the sponsors of the event and to collaborate with the bicycle manufacturer ABICI. Seen above leading the pack is Alex on their Velocino.

Dan and his ABICI bike with a specially made matching chain guard in the McDougall Check. These bikes are really the perfect London commuter, single speed, light fast and very comfortable.

The Dashing and ABICI gathering on a test drive the night before. John is sporting a prototype of our new cycle jacket which will launch this autumn.

The new jacket is designed for us by Alice and Beth, two new fashion graduates with first class degrees. It is being made in London in one of our very latest Lumatwill tweeds. the back panel is made of a high tech Swiss stretch reflective material. The body of the coat is close fitting but has lots of room for movement due to the vented sleeves.

Always keen to advance the wearing of wool we have been experimenting. Jeans do seem to be ubiquitous and as the traditional work wear of cowboys and gold diggers they are not always appropriate dress. We have boiled some of the Blue Basket and had Dan from Graham Browne cut a twisted 'jean' in them. The boiling gives the tweeds a fabulous felted softness and means they can easily be chucked in the washing machine at low temperatures.