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By why isn't it modern according to FnB though? Not sure I get it as A&S style has been hugely influencial among the designer set for quite a while.Originally Posted by Fuuma
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Groupthink or Connoisseurs' Consensus?
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By why isn't it modern according to FnB though? Not sure I get it as A&S style has been hugely influencial among the designer set for quite a while.Originally Posted by Fuuma
Influential in their designs, or they just like to wear it? Didn't McQueen work there for a while?
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By why isn't it modern according to FnB though? Not sure I get it as A&S style has been hugely influencial among the designer set for quite a while.Originally Posted by Foima
Don't ignore me, Foima.
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Are you sure about that? - BOriginally Posted by voxsartoria
He thinks because he needs a consensus, everyone else does. Read him the Riot Act... My views on A&S haven't changed since the first day I posted at AAAC.
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Influential in their designs, or they just like to wear it? Didn't McQueen work there for a while?Originally Posted by iammatt
In their designs.
McQueen : I think he worked at a couple of SR tailors but not sure which ones. I'm sure you could wikipedia-it for comfirmation as I'm too lazy to do it.
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In their designs.Originally Posted by Fuuma
In what way?
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By why isn't it modern according to FnB though? Not sure I get it as A&S style has been hugely influencial among the designer set for quite a while.Originally Posted by Fuuma
He would have to explain himself.
Personally, I don't think he has a reason. I think those little outbursts are all about his iGrudge.
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Don't ignore me, Foima.Originally Posted by RJmanbearpig
I never ignore you willingly, it's just that your snark sometimes leaves me speechless. Like the time I saw some guy have a heart attack and drive his Jag through a lampost but was too wasted to do anything but laugh with a vague feeling of malaise slowly settling it.
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In their designs.Originally Posted by Fuuma
McQueen : I think he worked at a couple of SR tailors but not sure which ones. I'm sure you could wikipedia-it for comfirmation as I'm too lazy to do it.
A&S (whence the infamous "McQueen woz here" allegedly chalked into Prince Charles' interlinings) and G&H. Savile Row Master Tailor Darren Beaman once told me that when that story broke, they took apart some of the Prince's jackets and didn't find a thing.
Huntsman did a bespoke line for McQueen in the early noughties, but it was something like 5000 pounds and only a few Gucci Group execs got suits (as their company had the controlling stake in McQueen at the time).
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Ramroop seemed like charming guy in that BBC Savile Row special.Originally Posted by mafoofan
He makes some really loud stuff that I would never wear, but he is just a wonderful guy. Really obsessive about what he does. The quality control in that shop is astounding.
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Who is the best you've seen...Sedwell? Well, it is true, to support FNB a little bit, that A&S is upper class in the way that Corvato is not. Cruizer, for example, would like a two button Corvato over a 3 roll to 2 A&S. - BOriginally Posted by voxsartoria
A&S is definitely upper class in a way Corvato is not. Upper class read as tradition bound in spite of actual quality, slovenly, unkempt and uncaring of what anyone thinks about them. Class to burn and clothes to with it
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In what way?Originally Posted by iammatt
I have to leave but doesn't it go like this: A&S: Italians likey, Italians develop a fashion industry (Chanel used to say Italians couldn't make clothing for ****, how things have changed), Italian adopt a sort of soft tailoring inspired by A&S, big guns like Armani emerge.
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Yeah, it is really spectacular. As good as the best Italians.Originally Posted by Manton
I can believe, contrary to some reports, that A&S is sewn really well. My stuff uses the same outworkers (although coatmaking is now...well...I guess in-house is as good a term), and Foo has posted the great work that the do, comparable to Rubinacci in at least what a layman can discern.
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