Category Archives: Lifestyle

Peter Charles of Brooklyn, New York was moved to contact us from Cannes: Hi Richard Just saw Dustin Hoffman in Cannes wearing trainers (loud ones) with a suit. Should I pull him up about it? Pete Over to Richard: “I … Continue reading →

The full range of our fitted Spring/Summer ’11 swimming shorts has now arrived at the Savile Row shop (and do check our worldwide stockists, on the map here, too). Italian made, they’re slim in the leg and sit a little way … Continue reading →

Shorts. The way we are (top and middle) and, as modelled by Clark Gable in John Ford’s Mogambo, the way we were in 1953 (bottom). In between (the seventies and eighties; think George Michael), shorts got a lot shorter. But … Continue reading →

Dr No (1962, directed by Terence Young) was James Bond’s first outing and the film that introduced him as a man of particular tastes, not the least of which was his tailoring. Director Young got his own tailor, Anthony Sinclair of … Continue reading →

A sad moment: it is time to say goodbye to Koichi, our trainee cutter from Tokyo. His year with Richard James is up and at the end of the week he’s heading home. But we trust it’s not going to … Continue reading →