This year’s Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) apprentices took centre stage at the Bespoke Tailors’ Benevolent Association (BTBA) summer party at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall on Friday 6thJuly where they were awarded their well-deserved diplomas. Pictured (top) from left to right are Vivian Wang (Gieves & Hawkes), Hannah Moore (Henry Poole & Co), Henry Burge (Henry Poole & Co), Emily …
Thursday 21st June was judgement day on Savile Row with the work of this year’s Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) apprentices being assessed. Congratulations go to the following, who each passed and will be awarded their diplomas at the Bespoke Tailors’ Benevolent Association Summer Party at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall on Friday 6th July: Henry Burge – Henry Poole & Co (coatmaker) …
Savile Row welcomed twenty-four wool growers from Australia last Friday. Organised by the Campaign for Wool, the day gave the visitors the opportunity to see at first hand the incredible work that is done on the Row with the fruits of their labour. Savile Row Bespoke Association members Anderson & Sheppard, Gieves & Hawkes and Henry Poole & Co played …
John Kerry (pictured, top, with William Smith and Simon Cundey of Henry Poole) was one of a healthy number of visitors to the pop-up showroom Savile Row set up for last week’s London Craft Week. The former United States Secretary of State and Senator for Massachusetts attended the pattern cutting and coat making demonstration given by Savile Row Bespoke Association …
Savile Row’s contribution to London Craft Week gets under way today with the opening of a pop-up showroom at numbers 34 and 35 of our celebrated street. Today sees Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) member and Row stalwart Henry Poole demonstrate the craft behind evening wear which, having conceived the dinner jacket in 1865, they are very well qualified to …
Making the Cut, the fine second book by Richard Anderson was published yesterday. Richard refers to the book as a ‘sartorial kaleidoscope’ and it comprises a wealth of on-the-Row know-how and insight. Savile Row has long been a byword for heritage and time-honed quality, but in Making the Cut Richard also looks at how, in the 21st century, its tailors …
Congratulations from everyone at the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) go to Richard James, who was awarded an OBE for services to fashion in the 2018 New Years Honours list. Richard received his OBE from the Duke of Cambridge (pictured) at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday. Richard founded the tailoring house that bears his name with his …
Works are now well underway to improve the public realm and overall customer experience on Savile Row. An initiative of the Westminster Council-led Savile Row Strategic Group, of which the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) is an active member, the scheme will replace and widen all the footways, reconstruct the carriageway in a slightly narrower configuration and install silver granite …
The future of the best British tailoring has been further safeguarded with the creation of the new Level 5 Diploma in Bespoke Tailoring. Developed by Savile Row Bespoke Association Director Su Thomas, expert in assessment and work based learning Sue Fraser and UKFT, the qualification provides learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to work in bespoke garment production …
Sir Winston Churchill cuts a fine, suitably sartorial figure in The Darkest Hour, the gripping new film that focuses on the great British Prime Minister’s early days in office with the threat of a Nazi invasion looming. Director Joe Wright and costume designer Jacqueline Durran were meticulous with regard to historical detail in the film and so approached Savile Row …
