Excerpt from the Style.com slideshow…
Three Sheets to the Wind
Not so far from Brooklin is Portland, a less rustic Maine destination—and headquarters of Rogues Gallery, the vintage-style clothing line established by ex-L.L.Beanie Alex Carleton. “The nautical story at Rogues Gallery,” the designer says, “is very personal. Most of us here are from coastal New England and have a relationship with the ocean in some way.” Anchored around T-shirts, the Spring collection expresses those connections directly (with salty stripes and ship prints) and in more subtle ways. One of Carleton’s preoccupations is with the way clothes become weathered, so Rogues Gallery red is really faded salmon pink, and navy is a washed-out gray. “Adventure, style, culture, freedom, bravery, and rum?” he says. “How could we not be obsessed with the nautical world?”