Richard James Spring/Summer '12 advertising image

Our Spring/Summer ’12 advertising image, which will shortly be appearing in such esteemed organs as GQ, Esquire, Wallpaper, Monocle and Port.

The Spring/Summer ’12 collection is available at the Savile Row shop now, and from Richard James Online in the next few days.

See the advertising image archive on our facebook page – twenty five defining images spanning Autumn/Winter ’99 to now.

Roger Moore is James Bond in a very nice Chesterfield coat

A couple of your favourite Bond looks. We will be posting a selection of these to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the top licensed to kill British agent’s first screen appearance, which came in the 1962 Terence Young directed Dr. No.

Above, and nominated by Chris Laverty of Clothes on Film, Roger Moore sports a very nice Chesterfield coat in the Guy Hamilton directed Live and Let Die, from 1973.

And below, coming from leftfield and as nominated by Wendy, we have Sean Connery in that curious towelling onesie from another Guy Hamilton Bond, 1964′s Goldfinger.

There has always been more to Bond’s wardrobe than Savile Row suits.

Let us know what your preferred Bond get up is.

Sean Connery is James Bond in a towelling onesie

Collage by Hormazd Narielwalla

Two works by the artist and collage maker Hormazd Narielwalla, who makes very interesting, original use of bespoke Savile Row tailoring patterns.

It has long been our belief that the innate individuality of our bespoke suit patterns says as much about the inner soul of those they are cut for as they do the body.

Contact Hormazd directly for more information and, indeed, if you would like to have him do something with your patterns.

Final Frida by Hormazd Narielwalla

As heard in the Savile Row shop a couple of minutes ago:  L’eau à la Bouche by Lulu Gainsbourg. From the album From Gainsbourg to Lulu.

Nice video. The son of Serge has some boots to fill.

Spring/Summer '12 colour scheme at Richard James Savile Row

A new colour scheme heralds the arrival of the Spring/Summer ’12 collection at the Savile Row shop.

We call it sand – there is something hot and of Morocco in this collection.

Below, as we were for Autumn/Winter ’11.

And, bottom , as we were for Spring/Summer ’11.

The nicely proportioned nozzles are a part of the air conditioning.

Autumn/Winter '11 colour scheme at Richard James Savile Row

Spring/Summer '11 colour scheme at Richard James Savile Row

Successful, self-satisfied Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) drops by some neighbours in his swimming trunks and takes straight to their pool. Exiting, he helps himself to a martini and announces “This is the day Ned Merrill swims across the county”. And so he sets out, from neighbours’ pool to neighbours’ pool, to swim home. Some neighbours are pleased to see him and some are not. And at each pool Ned comes face to face with something from his past (in the scene above, his old hot dog wagon), which results in his arriving home a changed man to the one that left, a man stripped almost bare.

The Swimmer (1968, Frank Perry; Costume Design by Anna Hill Johnstone) is a strangely compelling, highly stylised, somewhat surreal adaptation of one of John Cheever’s ‘misery in suburbia’ short stories. Burt Lancaster gives what many consider to be his finest performance. And that, remarkably, aged fifty-something in nothing more than a pair of black swimming trunks.

Richard James Spring/Summer '12 navy rings board shorts

L'eau by Lucien Clergue, 1960. © The artist

Two images by Lucien Clergue from Natural Selection: Important Modernist Photographs From Nature (1840-1960), which you can see on Savile Row at James Hyman Photography from tomorrow, Friday 27th January.

James Hyman Photography, 5 Savile Row, London W1S 3PD

Le Marais d'Arles, Algues by Lucien Clergue, 1962. © The artist

'James Bond cuff' at Richard James Bespoke

Our head cutter Chris models his preferred turnback button ‘James Bond cuff’ (“Because Sean Connery wore them in the Bond films.”) on one of his own bespoke shirts.

And, below, his pattern and the shirting for another couple of  shirts with said cuffs.

A bespoke Savile Row shirt pattern (see below) represents an incredibly precise piece of draftsmanship. Unlike suits, shirts are single layered garments and do not allow any room for concealment of excess fabric. So the pattern must be absolutely spot on.

Shirting and bespoke shirt pattern at Richard James Bespoke

Sleeve and cuff of a bespoke shirt pattern at Richard James Bespoke

Bespoke shirt pattern at Richard James Bespoke. From the top, going clockwise: front panel, collar stand and collar, yoke and left panel.

Richard James Spring/Summer '12

More of the Spring/Summer ’12 collection arrives at Richard James Savile Row. A timely reminder that brighter, warmer days lay ahead.

Above, a bright blue linen suit, a fuschia linen contemporary shirt and a pair of brown leather casual slip on shoes.

And below, a coffee cotton canvas suit, an electric linen contemporary shirt, a coffee spot silk tie, a turquoise orange sad eye silk pocket square, a mid brown leather belt and beige tan canvas loafers.

Two Savile Row suits with summer colour.

You can see a little more of our Spring/Summer ’12 lookbook – some mint and coral – on facebook.

Richard James Spring/Summer '12

A Night and a Day by Pepe Deluxé.

The lady is Miss Dominican Republic 2008, Miss Geisha Natalie Montes de Oca Robles.

Taken from the album Queen of the Wave, which is out on January 30th.