Will Broome X Community Clothing

Will has been a great friend and collaborator for nearly twenty years. The first thing he did for me was to paint the windows of my shop on Savile Row one Christmas (I’d been to Bergamo and seen a little shop in the old town there where the shop keeper had painted seasonal greetings on the inside of their window with white paint).  He doodled on our windows for all sorts of occasions, from Olympic Games to Halloweens, right up until I stopped working there. I am very proud to have a framed illustration Will drew for me on my wall at home, a gang of zombie squirrels proclaiming ‘Patty is our Leader’ (I never was). Long term CC customers will know Will from the windows he’s done for our London pop-ups over the years, and some of you will have met him at the first We Invented The Weekend festival in Salford where he was live doodling on t shirts and postcards. 

Will has had a long and brilliant career. He created the amazing Miss Marc character for Marc Jacobs, and illustrated the Little Marc kidswear for well over a decade. He has worked for all sorts of other brilliant brands from Vans to Wedgwood and has for many years taught illustration at both Central St Martins and Kingston.  

I also had it in my mind to have Will create characters for CC Kids, but I couldn’t have imaged they be as great as they are. Two of us in the team had come up with the idea of turning the C from the CC logo into a monster, and Will took it to another level. We had brilliant fun both creating, and naming them all, a cross between deranged Mr Men and Littles Misses and Bob Mortimer’s cat names. We’ve lots of ideas of other things to do with them if it turns out you like them as much as we do.   

He is also a Nottingham Forest fan so we’re crossing our fingers for his beloved Trees. 

Meet the Cee Monsters

"We wanted to have a sense of humour, for it to be kind of funny and quirky and odd in a good way. I think we wanted a sort of certain Britishness to it in kind of northerness to it and sort of the things that some of the characters were saying. 

The way I work is sort of super low fi really. I've never used the computer and then I'll just jump on my light box and kind of refine those drawings. But throughout the whole process I was kind of constantly in discussion with Patrick, you know, sending things to him and kind of so we would sort of discussing and refining it together all all the time, it's a nice and collaborative way of working together."

Will Broome

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