Taking a Savile Row legend global

For all that it’s seen as a bastion of steadfast, stiff-upper-lip Englishness, Savile Row has always been a place of shifting sands. Tailoring houses have hopped from one address to another, others have swallowed up their failing rivals, new blood has appeared regularly to shake up the establishment while other tailors have come and gone. [...]

Three piece suits are best

Suits with waistcoats are in style. From City AM’s Suits and the City supplement.

Return of the power shirt

Contrast collar shirts are back in the City – from City AM’s Suits and the City supplement

Patrick Grant: the pursuit of a style less ordinary

Having just won Menswear Designer of the Year 2010, the man behind E Tautz and Savile Row’s Norton & Sons discusses the return of English style

Getting black tie right

How to make the most of the dinner suit

The benefits of a bespoke shirt

Bespoke need not just apply to your suit.

On linen suits…

The linen suit is highly adaptable for casual wear too

On pocket squares…

Since men everywhere fell under the spell of Don Draper, a neat white strip in the breast pocket has been a de rigueur suit accessory. It helped too that the crisp lines and white on grey tones suited fashion’s move towards sober asceticism. But hey, summer’s here, the sun’s out, and such sombre restraint is [...]

How to look after smart shoes

There’s no point owning an expensive suit if the shoes you wear with it don’t look the business.

Vents, flaps, and what a suit says about its wearer

A new coalition of styles as well as of politics – comparing Cameron and Clegg’s suits

Subtler suits in the City

Pinstripes have no place in the age of austerity, but there are subtler textures around to make suits interesting

Getting the morning suit right

Advice for Ascot attendees and wedding guests on traditional formalwear

On shorts…

Advice on shorts wearing from Patrick Grant of Norton & Son / E Tautz Wearing shorts is a male fashion minefield, and always has been. In the 70s and 80s they were ball-crunchingly small, in the 90s they became vast and billowing, and in the Noughties they begat the crime against taste and rationality that [...]

Olga Berluti

I meet the doyenne of the luxury men’s footwear and leather brand