There was a time when wearing a suit would mean you were an upstanding member of society, reassuringly conventional in your tastes and invariably financially solvent. With the ongoing crisis occuring in the Eurozone and the inability of the besuited leaders to form any coherent answers to the problems faced, the suit has been stripped of all its power and respectability. Italy’s outgoing leader Silvio Berlusconi has revealed the suit for what it is… Bunga Bunga daywear.

These thoughts crossed my mind when I visited an Institute of Contemporary Arts exhibition and saw this jacket hanging on the wall. Located on The Mall, a stone’s throw from Trafalgar Square, the ICA is home of the British avant-garde movement and a great place to view the arts, film and events of a creative nature that will leave your mind asking questions it never previously thought of asking.

Founded in 1946 to challenge the orthodoxy of contemporary art, the ICA moved to its current site at the Regency period building of Nash House in 1968.

Who needs a suit when you can wear adidas tracky pants and matching hoodie!