The decorations are up on Savile Row… On behalf of our members, we would like to wish everyone – customers, craftspeople, suppliers, fellow community members, and friends – a very happy Christmas and holiday season, and all the best for 2024. Pictured, from top to bottom, are the Christmas windows at Gieves & Hawkes, Dege & Skinner, and Henry Poole …
The Crisis pop-up shop at the old West End Central police station is open! Take yourself down to the station to find a great selection of garments and accessories at real bargain prices. All proceeds go to Crisis, the national homelessness charity. This year, the pop-up’s fourth on Savile Row, some fifty brands and tailoring houses have made donations, and …
Our condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of Alex Cooke. An extremely popular presence on Savile Row, Alex worked his way from Striker to Managing Director at Henry Poole & Co. He joined Poole’s in 1998 on a cutting apprenticeship, which he completed to become a Savile Row Cutter in 2003. And in 2008 he was promoted to …
The pop-up Crisis Christmas shop at the old West End Central police station on Savile Row is back! Ready yourself for another arresting array of garments and accessories at bargain prices from Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) members and other leading menswear and womenswear retailers. This year’s Pop-Up Crisis runs from Monday 4th to Thursday 14th December. And, as usual, …
The shears are up and shining bright. This year’s Savile Row Christmas lights are now in place for all to see. Tailors’ shears represent some of the key values of our community – knowledge, skill, and time-tested craftsmanship. And, stretching down our famous street from Clifford Street to Burlington Gardens, we think they make a splendid site. The Savile Row …
Look out for the shining shears! Christmas lights return to Savile Row this year in the giant, fluorescent form of the tools that are central to the work of our community: tailor’s shears. The impressive shears (see computer generated image) will light up our street all the way from Clifford Street to Burlington Gardens. The big switch-on date is Thursday …
Where would we be without it? Wool Month – the annual celebration of what is a truly indispensable commodity for the members of the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) – gets under way this week. A special gallery space has been set up just around the corner from Savile Row at 30 Old Burlington Street, which features key wool apparel and interior …
A new, all-encompassing guide to the craftsmanship of Savile Row has launched in the form of a website and interactive Instagram, Facebook and X/Twitter channels. An initiative of our street’s landlords The Pollen Estate, On Savile Row showcases all the ateliers and attendant artistry of the Row, from the exquisite tailoring of Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) members and others, …
Richard James’s bespoke operation has moved to a new billet across the road at the house’s flagship Savile Row store while its Clifford Street premises (pictured) are refurbished. The Clifford Street store is scheduled to re-open with a fresh, all-new expanded interior in the January of 2024. Richard James was established on Savile Row in 1992, and became a founding …
We are delighted to announce that Mark Henderson (pictured) has been reappointed as the new Chair of the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA). This is the second time Mark has assumed the position, having acted as our founding Chair. Mark is currently the Royal Warrant Holder and an advisor to SRBA member Gieves & Hawkes, where he served as CEO …
Our friends at the Bespoke Tailors’ Benevolent Association put a few questions to this year’s Savile Row Bespoke diploma graduates, Zsanett Meszoros of Gieves & Hawkes (pictured, top), and Charlie Button of Henry Poole & Co (pictured, bottom right). Read on for an insight into how Zsanett and Charlie came to choose a career in bespoke tailoring, who and what …
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Edward Sexton, who was an exceptionally talented cutter and one of the great pioneers of Savile Row. Edward changed both the way men dressed and the way menswear was marketed when he famously co-founded the tailoring house Nutters with Tommy Nutter. Backed, amongst others, by Cilla Black, Nutters opened on Valentine’s Day …
The future of bespoke tailoring on Savile Row was further strengthened on Friday when two more talented young people received their Savile Row Bespoke diplomas. Charlie Button of Henry Poole & Co and Zsanett Meszoros of Gieves & Hawkes (pictured together, top, and with William Skinner, Managing Director of Dege & Skinner and Director of the Savile Row Bespoke Association …
This year’s Concours on Savile Row was a great success, with the sun shining down on a truly spectacular collection of cars and in excess of an astonishing ten thousand visitors. Our famous street was covered with a red carpet for the two days of the event, and the vehicles on display perfectly represented the past and future of motoring, …
2023 Savile Row Concours Our celebrated street will be closed to all traffic save for some forty world-class classic and contemporary cars on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th May for the return of Concours on Savile Row (pictured, last year). Entry to this, the second spectacular collaboration between Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) members, our community neighbours and the leading …
The bunting Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) members have made in collaboration with The Campaign For Wool to mark the coronation of King Charles III is up! Made from red, white and blue wool Melton from AW Hainsworth in Yorkshire, the mile’s length of bunting can now be seen on Savile Row, Clifford Street, Old Burlington Street and in neighbouring …
Savile Row will be bedecked with bunting to celebrate the coronation of Kings Charles III. The Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) and its members have collaborated with The Campaign For Wool to produce one full mile of red, white and blue wool bunting to decorate Savile Row, Clifford Street, Old Burlington Street, and parts of neighbouring St. James’s. The bunting …
We are thrilled to announce that over one-hundred apprentices have now been trained in the craft of bespoke tailoring on our celebrated street since the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) was founded in 2004. From its inception, the overarching remit of the SRBA has been to protect and promote the unique craft of bespoke Savile Row tailoring. And nothing is …
We are delighted to announce that Hackett has joined the Savile Row Bespoke Association. The Hackett story started in 1983, when Jeremy Hackett opened his first store selling second-hand clothes on King’s Road, Chelsea. Today, the brand’s bespoke tailoring service is available exclusively at the Hackett townhouse at 14 Savile Row.
When Gregory Peck appeared on screen as the man in The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit it fast became a symbol of careerist conformity. The eponymous suit was cut for Peck by his tailors of choice and Savile Row Bespoke Association founding member Huntsman, who – sixty-seven years on since the film’s release – have now revisited it and …
