DANIEL DAY-LEWIS - WE CARRY ON PLAYING

This month saw Daniel Day-Lewis collect a well-earned BAFTA and Oscar for best actor in the epic film “There will be blood.” Nailing the role of Daniel Plainview, a dedicated oil prospector, Day-Lewis picked up his third BAFTA award and his second Oscar.

Fashioning a Paul Smith Bespoke suit that had been commissioned especially for him from Westbourne House, Daniel Day-Lewis gave a speech so beautiful that it could have been mistaken for an epilogue in itself. “In Greenwich Park, Blackheath, the streets of Deptford, Lewisham, New Cross, the bombsites on the Isle of Dogs, the wharfs and shadowy lane ways of the southeast London Docks, the terraces of Millwall Football Ground, those are the playgrounds of my early life. We carry on playing and we need playmates. Or otherwise we’re just playing with ourselves.”

Day-Lewis is one of many actors who do justice to the elegance of Paul Smith. But, stealing the show at the British Academy Film Awards with his genuine humility and cultured flair, the team at Paul Smith are very proud of the London-born actor…and rightfully so.

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