Category Archives: Spring/Summer ’11

Final reductions at the Savile Row shop’s summer sale, including 50% off all of this season’s suits. And it’s an ideal time to reinvigorate your sock drawer.

Attractively bumbling scientist Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) invents a miracle fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. And how better to demonstrate it than in the form of a white suit? Undoubtedly it’s a brilliant invention, but not … Continue reading →

Essentially decent but not terribly sharp stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) gets into hot water after he ingratiates himself with asset stripper come corporate raider come all round bad egg Gordon “Greed is Good” Gekko (Michael Douglas) in the pursuit … Continue reading →

A mystery man models a Richard James lightweight, cotton and linen summer trench outside the Savile Row shop. We like to keep our trenchs clean and simple and not over burden them with buckles and straps and the like. A … Continue reading →

Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a rich man, but bored stupid with it. So he robs a bank. Enter Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway), the hottest crack insurance investigator ever, and cue a frisky cat-and-mouse caper. The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of Richard James in Mr Porter’s new Something For The Weekend bulletin. Above, our cotton blazer, classic fit white shirt and flat front cotton trousers. They’re all available from Mr Porter, our Savile Row shop and stockists. … Continue reading →

It’s 1966 and David Hemmings’s Thomas is a happening fashion photographer and dedicated birder (and a ringer for David Bailey) whose daily diet of swinging London is interrupted after he inadvertently snaps what appears to be a murder in a … Continue reading →

Tony Curtis and Roger Moore are Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair, two very seventies playboys from typically different sides of the tracks who resort to fisticuffs and so destroy a bar after instant animosity overtakes them on first meeting … 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 →