Savile Row’s driving jackets for Bentley
Bespoke driving jackets designed by Dege & Skinner, Henry Poole, Gieves & Hawkes and Huntsman. Which is your favourite?(Worth expanding to full screen)
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Hopsack blazer: the perfect summer jacket
This Caliendo hopsack blazer was completed earlier in the year and is now fast becoming the most useful item in my wardrobe.Just like the Solito cashmere blazer I had made for Autumn/Winter last year,...
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Edward Sexton grey flannel suit
My apologies to readers that have been waiting for these shots of the Edward Sexton suit. Books, corrupted photos and other things seemed to consistently get in the way. I’ve always wanted a...
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Almost ready – suits being made for our Tailoring Symposium
At our Tailoring Symposium next week in Florence, we have six of the greatest tailors in the world presenting their styles to the audience of press and buyers: Panico, Cifonelli, Edward Sexton,...
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The Tailoring Symposium: six greats in one room
“Edward, Edward,” said Antonio Panico, in a conspiratorial whisper. “What was it like to fit Mick Jagger?”Just like the Shoemakers Symposium we ran in January, the biggest pleasure of our Tailors...
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Tailoring Symposium: the outfits
These are the six pieces that our six greats of bespoke tailoring made for the Symposium last week in Florence.As expected, each has a very distinctive style, most clearly seen in the shoulders but...
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Ferdinando Caraceni bespoke cashmere jacket
My final jacket from Ferdinando Caraceni in Milan is superb in many ways, including fit, make and finish. The style, however, is interesting and not necessarily what I expected.I started this project...
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House styles and difficult customers: The Tailoring Symposium
Edward Sexton Before the public part of Tailoring Symposium in June, we all gathered next to the pool at the Four Seasons to have a chat about tailoring and its future, with The Rake busily making a...
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Bespoke gilet with Davide Taub
Some of my best, certainly my most original bespoke projects have been undertaken with Davide Taub, head cutter at Gieves & Hawkes. Regular readers will remember the bespoke leather jacket we...
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Steven Hitchcock fitting: Let the tailor cut his style
I return to the drape style with recognisable regularity. For those without a big chest – and not that bothered about big, wide shoulders – it is a very flattering shape. Many also forget how slim it...
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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – foreign bespoke
If you’re looking for a good bespoke suit in London, there aren’t many English options between £1000 and £3000 or so. Most are closer to the £1000 make and finish, but simply charge twice as much. An...
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Final Camps de Luca grey suit
My apologies to Philip, who wrote recently that he’s been waiting for my review of this Camps de Luca suit. And to anyone else. The suit was completed a few months ago and we managed to take some...
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Edward Sexton flannel – When to wear a suit
Apparently people are becoming more casual. There are now such things as luxury jogging bottoms.But I’ll put my money on the fact that – even as the fashion wheel turns – the suit will remain the...
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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – first fitting
I recently had the basted fitting for my two suits from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – the tailor that runs a workshop in India but has all the suits cut by the same person London. They had offered...
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Sartoria Dalcuore bespoke, brown high-twist suit
*London trunk show details:February 18-20info@sartoriadalcuore.com+39345840423232 Royal Crescent, London W11, UK*It’s been interesting to watch in recent years how more and more small tailors have...
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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury final suit – great value bespoke
Back in October there was a lot of interest around my post on the bespoke service at Whitcomb & Shaftesbury. Their ‘classic bespoke’ service, which involves cutting the suit in London (by a very...
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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury visit the US
Whitcomb & Shaftesbury, the fabulously good value tailor I have written about recently, visit the US 5-6 times a year. They will be there next in a couple of weeks – in New York for three days...
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Manning & Manning bespoke tailoring
Earlier this year I started a bespoke summer suit with tailors Manning & Manning. They are a small operation comprising old Row cutter Bryan Manning (above) and his son, with the making...
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House styles and difficult customers: The Tailoring Symposium
Edward Sexton Before the public part of Tailoring Symposium in June, we all gathered next to the pool at the Four Seasons to have a chat about tailoring and its future, with The Rake busily making a...
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House styles and difficult customers: The Tailoring Symposium
Edward Sexton Before the public part of Tailoring Symposium in June, we all gathered next to the pool at the Four Seasons to have a chat about tailoring and its future, with The Rake busily making a...
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