Thom Browne talks of his inspiration for spring-summer 2016 line

Thom Browne is having a wardrobe crisis. The New York-based designer is due to have dinner at the China Club later this evening but is in a panic over the restaurant's "no shorts" dress code. It turns out that the man who is famous for bringing the suit back in for contemporary fashion, does not travel with a pair of trousers.

"Well, what if someone from Bermuda shows up," he says laughing, signalling to his perfectly pressed, tailored Bermuda shorts.

"Of course, I respect dress codes, but this is my uniform. It's always a grey suit. I don't know why women don't have uniforms too. It would make their lives so much easier," he says.

While it's unlikely that many women would subscribe to Browne's personal style philosophy, it's certainly resonated with men. Ever since his shrunken suits landed in boutiques such as Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Colette in Paris in the mid-noughties, Browne caused a style revolution in the way men dressed, something not witnessed since the days of Giorgio Armani.

Soon they were taking to the streets in his buttoned up, conservative jackets and ankle baring trousers, a look, that according to one GQ writer, makes the wearer look like Pee-wee Herman's employer.