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Images from The London Cut

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Images from The London Cut.

FLORENCE

"In January 2007 Florentine men's fashion foundation Pitti Immagine Uomo headlined their winter show with The London Cut: Savile Row Bespoke Tailoring. Commissioned by Pitti Immagine CEO Raffaello Napoleone, directed by Lapo Cianchi and curated by James Sherwood, the exhibition was a celebration of Savile Row tailoring in which the great houses of the Row showed together for the first time in their illustrious history. The exhibition was staged in the private apartments of the Duchess of Aosta and Prince of Naples in the Palazzo Pitti for a month. Neither of these 'secret' quarters had previously been opened to the public. At the core of the exhibition were forty bespoke suits recreated by the big beasts of Savile Row and inspired by famous/infamous customers spanning over two centuries. Surrounding the bespoke suits made for the exhibition were military and civilian florence pieces from the vaults of Gieves & Hawkes, Henry Poole and Huntsman as well as iconic pieces from private collections. Italian contemporary artist Luca Trevisiani art directed the exhibition. HRH Prince Michael of Kent inaugurated The London Cut and attended the opening night Black & White Ball at Palazzo Corsini directed by Contessa Sibilla della Gherardesca."

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PARIS

"In July 2007 a sartorial entente cordiale between Parisian Haute Couture and Great British bespoke was celebrated at the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris with the second chapter of The London Cut exhibition. Hosted by Chambre Syndicale President Didier Grumbach and Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott, the exhibition of Savile Row tailoring was inspired by one of the Residence's most stylish Ambassadorial couples, Sir Alfred Duff Cooper and his wife Lady Diana who were posted to Paris in 1944 and made their palace on the Rue du Faubourg St-Honore the epicentre of chic for post-War Parisian society. One of the Coopers' most celebrated guests, Cecil Beaton, inspired the evening dress display in the Galerie Veranda that echoed Beaton's iconic designs for the Ascot scene in My Fair Lady. The master tailors of Savile Row cut new exhibits for the Galerie Veranda display and exhibition curator James Sherwood endeavoured to link Savile Row's Paris with the monarchs, ambassadors and illustrious guests who haunt the Empire-style state rooms of the Residence (commissioned by Napoleon's sister Princess Pauline Borghese) such as the Duke of Wellington, Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie, King Edward VII, Sir Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle."

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bandwidth.... clogging.... images..... not appearing............. computer...... crashing......
 

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Originally Posted by Douglas
bandwidth.... clogging.... images..... not appearing............. computer...... crashing......

Yes, Sherwood's server is down...try again later.

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I believe the Italian exhibition feature briefly in the three-part BBC Savile Row documentary?
 

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
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Wow at the left most Velvet tuxedo with sash!

Are most of those dinner suits pictured actually conform to the SF DJ dress code?
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TOKYO

"In April 2008, The London Cut was invited to the British Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo by Ambassador Sir Graham Fry. The charming mansion, modelled on Sir Edwin Lutyens' Art Deco Washington Residence, brought a new mood to this third presentation of masterpieces by the master tailors of Savile Row. Curator James Sherwood invited Steve Lidbury Design - a Tokyo-based consultancy led by the eponymous British-born designer - to consider framing Savile Row in a Modernist mis-en-scene that reflected the timelessness of the bespoke tailor's art. A further ten pieces were cut especially for Tokyo to show all the disciplines of an elegant man's contemporary wardrobe including black tie, white tie, morning tails, shooting tweeds and a collection of blazers and flannels anticipating the 2008 film Brideshead Revisited. Archive pieces acknowledging the link between Japan and Savile Row were shown at the Residence including Henry Poole's Royal Warrant for the Japanese Imperial household (1923), order books relating to Prince Imperial (later Emperor) Hirohito and a rare 1930s Japanese Prime Minister's court coatee worn in the presence of the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor). The event at the Residence was followed by a satellite exhibition at Isetan who gave The London Cut all of their windows and an in-store exhibition space also designed by Steve Lidbury."

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Great pictures. How did you secure the invitation to the event?

On a separate note, I spotted James Sherwoode and a chap round Burlington Arcade last week, looking dapper in a straw boater.
 

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Manton should see this. Pity it's not double breasted.
 

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So does this mean I need to add a pocket for a square on my cloak?
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