Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Richard James sale starts at the Savile Row store at 10am on Tuesday 4th January 2011. We are closed for Christmas and the new year from 25th December until 10am on Tuesday 4th January. Season’s greetings and a very … Continue reading →

Waxed cotton was invented by the Scots, who have an interest in keeping out the rain. Originally, many years distant, they waterproofed linen with linseed oil to make sails and cannily fashioned capes and sou’westers and the like from what they … Continue reading →

But a few of our favourite Christmas cards. From the top: Studio Thomson, Manolo Blahnik, British GQ and Elton John and David Furnish.

The dashing interiors of the above now classic belts (we introduced them in 1996) say much about our ethos and bring to mind something that Richard James remarked to British Vogue on opening shop in Savile Row in 1992: “A … Continue reading →

1967 and the inimitable Anna Karina performs Serge Gainsbourg’s Roller Girl. It appears on the reissued C’est Chic! French Girl Singers of the 1960s (Ace).

Our luxuriant, 6-ply cashmere zip-front funnel necks are hand knitted in Wales and offer the perfect all in one winter protection, we have found, for the upper body and neck. And with regards to the latter, we certainly favour them … Continue reading →

The Unseen Dalí: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures at the Modern Masters Gallery just around the corner on Cork Street presents more than forty of the surrealist’s rarest works, a fair few of them never exhibited before in the UK. Above is … Continue reading →

How to tell a good knitted tie from a not so good one? Give it a squeeze. If you can hear it creak (and creak is the right word), all good, it’s silk. No creak, not so good. Needless to … Continue reading →

Pink Martini’s subtly shuffling rendering of Shhedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol). Taken from the new, Christmas/holiday season album Joy To The World. It’s that time of year.

Just arrived, these vibrant, shadowy, patent effect wallets and cardholders are made in Japan from 100% calf leather. The detail is  stunningly intricate. Available in pink, blue, grey and purple.