Listen, I’ve got a soft spot for any comrade Yorkshireman – especially after I’ve had a few beers (it’s like a stag do in here, believe you me). But one doesn’t have to be a provincial prince to see the crown on Daniel Lee. Burberry’s creative director has kept on pushing this strange land’s biggest luxury brand, and it’s legit turning a corner to become the highest tower once more.
And surprise! He didn’t even wear Burberry checks. Just straight-up Burberry, because the Daniel Lee administration does big coats just as well in leather, too.
“We try to celebrate the best parts of the country. So for me, that really is the creativity, the music, the theatre, the film that still comes out of here,” he told me when we sat down earlier this year. “There’s an amazing crop of young British actors that are all having great global careers right now. There continues to be great sportspeople. There continues to be greatness from the UK. We just want to be seen as part of that.”
Sofi Adams