Gratitude to the master tailors, cutters, shirtmakers, and garment craftspeople - Savile Row legends, Neapolitan masters, and the hidden gems of every high street - whose hands turn cloth into confidence. Celebrated from public work, cited on every card.
40 of 1024 Β· celebrated from public information, cited on every card.
Legendary Savile Row cutter who co-founded Nutters and redefined the modern silhouette
Edward Sexton / Nutters of Savile Row
Co-founded Nutters of Savile Row in 1969 and brought flamboyant, sculpted tailoring to a conservative street, dressing three Beatles for the Abbey Road cover and mentoring generations of cutters until his death in 2023.
The rebel of Savile Row who fused bespoke craft with 1960s peacock flair
Nutters of Savile Row
Opened Nutters in 1969 and revolutionized the Row with open shop windows and daring cuts, dressing The Beatles, Mick Jagger and Elton John while keeping traditional bespoke craftsmanship at the core.
First female head cutter in Savile Row history, now heading her own house
Kathryn Sargent Bespoke Tailoring
Rose to head cutter at Gieves & Hawkes β the first woman ever to hold the role on Savile Row β and in 2016 became the first female master tailor to open her own shop on the Row.
Trinidad-born master tailor and owner of Maurice Sedwell on Savile Row
Maurice Sedwell
Arrived from Trinidad in 1970, became the first Black owner of a Savile Row house, earned an OBE for tailoring and training, and founded the Savile Row Academy to pass the craft on.
Youngest-ever head cutter at Huntsman and author of the classic memoir 'Bespoke'
Richard Anderson Ltd
Became the youngest head cutter in Huntsman's 150-year history at 34, then co-founded Richard Anderson Ltd at 13 Savile Row in 2001; his book 'Bespoke: Savile Row Ripped and Smoothed' opened the cutting room to the world.
Seventh-generation steward of Henry Poole & Co, the founding house of Savile Row
Henry Poole & Co
Leads the Row's oldest tailoring house β creator of the dinner jacket and holder of royal warrants β carrying a family line of tailors unbroken since 1806 into its third century.
Head of Chittleborough & Morgan, keeper of the Nutters flame
Chittleborough & Morgan
Worked alongside Tommy Nutter and Edward Sexton before co-founding Chittleborough & Morgan, and was awarded Master Tailor by the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors in 2015 for some of the most technically demanding tailoring on the Row.
British-Ghanaian tailor who brought color, youth and Africa to Savile Row
Ozwald Boateng
Youngest tailor to open on the Row at 28 and the first to show in Paris, he fused Savile Row cut with Ghanaian-inspired color, served as creative director of Givenchy Homme, and earned a V&A retrospective.
Nutter protΓ©gΓ© and leader of the New Bespoke Movement
MbE / Grey Flannel
Trained under Tommy Nutter and helped revive British tailoring in the 1990s from his Spitalfields atelier, dressing films from Atonement to Skyfall and Mission: Impossible, and earning an MBE for services to fashion.
Inventor of the drape cut and principal tailor to the Duke of Windsor
F. Scholte, Savile Row (historic)
As the Duke of Windsor's tailor from 1919 to 1948 he created the drape suit β fuller chest, soft shoulder, nipped waist β arguably the most influential silhouette in 20th-century menswear; his coats survive in the Met's Costume Institute.
Head cutter and creative director of Huntsman, 11 Savile Row
Huntsman
A Scottish-trained cutter who led Kilgour's cutting room before taking the helm at Huntsman in 2014, he guards one of the Row's most distinctive one-button house silhouettes while designing its modern collections.
The last grand master of the Florentine cut
Liverano & Liverano
At his cutting table six days a week since the 1960s, he preserved the round, soft Florentine silhouette when it nearly vanished, and now teaches it to apprentices from around the world.
The cutter who invented the unstructured Neapolitan jacket in the 1930s
London House / Rubinacci (historic)
As head cutter at Gennaro Rubinacci's London House he stripped the English jacket of its padding and lining, creating the soft, deconstructed Neapolitan style that shapes how much of the world dresses today.
Patriarch who took Neapolitan tailoring from Naples to the world
Rubinacci
Took over London House at 18 and built Rubinacci into the global ambassador of Neapolitan elegance, founding a museum of Neapolitan tailoring and dressing icons for six decades until his death at 83.
Living legend of Neapolitan tailoring, former master cutter at Rubinacci
Sartoria Panico
Started in a tailor's shop at 11, cut at Rubinacci for over 20 years, and since 1991 has run his own Naples atelier β widely regarded as one of the last great freehand cutters of the Neapolitan school.
Master of the soft Neapolitan jacket on Via Toledo, Naples
Sartoria Solito
Learning from his father from age ten and cutting in his own atelier since 1966, he and son Luigi are counted among the finest living interpreters of the unpadded, high-armhole Neapolitan style.
Fourth-generation Neapolitan trouser-maker with a global cult following
Ambrosi Napoli
Heir to a family that cut trousers for Naples' great houses, he turned a backroom trade into a celebrated craft in its own right β roughly 80% hand-sewn, capped at about 1,600 pairs a year.
Naples' grande dame of the bespoke shirt, trained under Rubinacci
Anna Matuozzo
Since 1970 she has hand-made shirts considered among the finest in the world, building an all-female atelier now carried forward by her daughters β a rare matriarchal dynasty in Italian sartoria.
Second-generation cutter of Milan's tiny, revered family atelier
Musella Dembech
With his father Francesco β who made over 200 suits for Gianni Agnelli β he runs a family workroom whose 'soft Milanese' cut has made it one of the most sought-after small tailoring houses in Europe.
Fourth-generation master of Paris's great bespoke house
Cifonelli
Guardian of the famous Cifonelli shoulder and the highest armhole in the business, he carries a house founded in 1880 that dressed Cary Grant and Marcello Mastroianni, while constantly inventing new cuts.
Third-generation master tailor of Camps de Luca, Paris
Camps de Luca
With his father Marc and brother Charles he shares one cutting bench at the family house famed for its 'fish-mouth' lapel and teardrop pockets, keeping grand Parisian bespoke alive into a third generation.
Japanese master tailor who became head cutter at Smalto in Paris
Kenjiro Suzuki Sur Mesure, Paris
Moved to France in 2003, rose to head cutter at Francesco Smalto β a remarkable feat for a foreign tailor β and since 2013 has run his own Paris maison prized for its precise French 'fish-mouth' cut.
Tokyo's master of American Ivy-style tailoring at Tailor Caid
Tailor Caid, Shibuya
From his 1950s time-capsule atelier in Shibuya he has, since 2002, perfected a hand-made homage to golden-era Madison Avenue style, becoming a touchstone for the global Ivy revival.
Naples-trained founder of Sartoria Ciccio, Tokyo
Sartoria Ciccio
Apprenticed at Sartoria Dalcuore and Pascariello in Naples before founding Ciccio in 2008, he leads the wave of Japanese tailors who mastered Italian craft and made Tokyo a world bespoke capital.
Japanese cutter behind Florence's Sartoria Corcos
Sartoria Corcos, Florence
Left Osaka's Ring Jacket factory for Florence in 2004, opened Sartoria Corcos in 2011, and built such demand for his modern Florentine cut that his waiting list closed to new clients.
Second-generation tailor leading Seoul's B&Tailor onto the world stage
B&Tailor, Seoul
With his father, master tailor Park Jung-yul (est. 1967), and brother Changjin, he turned a Gangnam family workshop into one of Asia's most admired bespoke houses, trunk-showing across the globe.
The tailor of Tsim Sha Tsui β Sam's Tailor, dresser of presidents and royals
Sam's Tailor, Hong Kong
For five decades he has run the shop his father founded in 1957, suiting US presidents, British royals and rock stars, and received an MBE for his contribution to Hong Kong tailoring's global fame.
Custodian of Shanghainese tailoring tradition at W.W. Chan & Sons
W.W. Chan & Sons, Hong Kong
With W.W. Chan since 1986, he preserves the exacting Red Gang (Shanghainese) tailoring lineage β fully hand-sewn canvases, British lines with Italian softness β earning the house a reputation as Asia's most craft-focused tailor.
Auschwitz survivor who became America's master tailor to six presidents
Martin Greenfield Clothiers, Brooklyn
Learned to sew as a prisoner at Auschwitz, arrived in America in 1947 with nothing, and built Brooklyn's great hand-tailoring factory β dressing presidents from Eisenhower to Obama before his death in 2024 at 95.
London-trained bespoke tailor of New York, suit-maker to the movies
Leonard Logsdail Bespoke, New York
From his East 53rd Street atelier he has cut power suits for The Irishman, The Wolf of Wall Street and Succession, making him Hollywood's quiet standard for authentic bespoke on screen.
Palermo-born New York master tailor of the documentary 'Men of the Cloth'
Corvato Custom Tailoring, New York
One of three Italian master tailors whose devotion to the craft was chronicled in the acclaimed documentary 'Men of the Cloth', he embodies the immigrant artisans who kept bespoke alive in America.
Oaxaca-born founder of Mexico City's celebrated family sastrerΓa
SastrerΓa Gilberto Ortiz e Hijos
Opened his Roma workshop in 1990 and built an international clientele on uncompromising hand craft, passing the trade to sons DarΓo and Alejandro and putting Mexican bespoke on the world map.
Brazil's reference name in alfaiataria for over four decades
Ricardo Almeida, SΓ£o Paulo
Since founding his SΓ£o Paulo house in 1981 he has developed his own pattern methodology for the Brazilian physique and elevated the national standard for tailored menswear, dressing the country's business and political elite.
Jodhpur royal-lineage designer who returned the bandhgala to the world stage
Raghavendra Rathore Jodhpur
A Parsons-trained descendant of Jodhpur's founder, he resurrected the bandhgala jacket and Jodhpuri breeches as global bespoke garments, dressing figures from Amitabh Bachchan to the Emir of Qatar.
Lagos master of bespoke tailoring and modern African luxury
ATAFO, Lagos
Left a corporate career to train as a tailor and built ATAFO into Nigeria's premier bespoke house, blending Savile Row discipline with Nigerian fabric traditions and earning coverage from CNN Africa to Forbes Africa.
The only female shirtmaker with her own house on Jermyn Street
Emma Willis, Jermyn Street & Gloucester
Built her English shirtmaking atelier in Gloucester employing local craftspeople, earned an MBE for entrepreneurship, and founded Style for Soldiers to make bespoke shirts for injured servicemen and women.
Founder of Savile Row's first women-only tailoring shopfront
Knatchbull (formerly The Deck)
After cutting her teeth at Huntsman, she opened The Deck in 2019 β the first shopfront for women in the Row's 200-year history β and made it the Row's first B Corp certified tailor.
Founder of Gormley & Gamble, the first women's-only tailor on Savile Row
Gormley & Gamble
Interning on the Row from age 15, she gambled her final year of university tuition to launch Gormley & Gamble in 2014 at 21, opening made-to-measure tailoring to women at accessible prices.
Architectural bespoke cutter forging a new London school from Berkeley Square
Michael Browne Atelier
After eight years under Joe Morgan at Chittleborough & Morgan, he opened his own atelier in 2017 where a single pattern can take 20 hours to draft β extreme craft that critics call some of the best tailoring in Britain.
Golden Shears-winning Savile Row tailor teaching the craft from rural Ireland
The Handcraft Tailor Academy, Monaghan
A fifth-generation tailor who apprenticed at Henry Poole and won the 2009 Golden Shears, he founded Ireland's Handcraft Tailor Academy in 2016 to teach full bespoke coat-making to students worldwide.
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