The London Lounge

I can't help but think that Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren, etc. can only serve to help Savile Row as they pique people's interest in good clothing. Savile Row can be aspirational (in the best sense of the word) for people who are looking for something beyond the high-end RTW brands, if SR promotes and cult...

Waiting for delivery on a 3-piece 6x2 DB from the light gray Brisa. Started a 2-piece 6x2 DB on Coops2. In the middle of a new sportcoat (I forget the cloth, but it's a green background with red windowpane, cashmere) with a local tailor. A new tuxedo shirt with turndown collar and pique front, and a...

The cufflinks made from Murano glass are nice, although one can get very similar Murano glass cufflinks in Italy or on ebay for a small fraction of the price. +1. I was pretty shocked at how much the Kilgour cufflinks were. I've bought murano cufflinks from eBay seller maguire37glass,and am very ha...

uppercase wrote: Rubinacci looks great in those pictures; simple but great. All repp ties, too. I wonder if they are those damn 7 folds!?

Agree, and his repp stripes are even going the "wrong" way!

--Andre

Modernism is an aesthetic movement of the early 20th century. There is no doubt that Mahler, Wagner, and Richard Strauss were already pointing the way to it --- someone just had to come along and put a label on what was happening as their successors took the art form to one of its logical conclusion...

The 23 minutes of this video were much more interesting and informative than however long that 3-part BBC series was on Savile Row.

--Andre

I see nothing modernist about Webern. He never thought of himself in such terms, and nor did Schoenberg. All of the Second Viennese School composers thought of themselves as thorough traditionalists. Yes, they thought of themselves as continuing the great musical tradition in the line of Brahms, Be...

[Leverkühn however, only wrote two Kammersymphonien. Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't Leverkühn a fictional character? Or are you talking about Schoenberg? For my tastes, Webern's Opus 10 rules over them all for the 2nd Viennese school --- it is the essence of modernism. But serialism becam...

There we go. Seven. Consistent? If we're talking about Prokoviev, probably not. 1 is charming, and 5 is very good. His best works for me are the 2nd piano concerto, his wartime piano sonatas, and Romeo & Juliet. Apart from Mahler, I'm not sure there's another 20th century composer who had consisten...

I keep finding composers I've forgotten to mention as I go through my iPod: Prokoviev.

--Andre

For great 20th century symphonists, it's pretty hard to top Mahler. And don't forget Bartok, Rachmaninov, Korngold, Martinu, Bernstein, and Lutoslawski in addition to the others mentioned above. Not all have written symphonies, but have very interesting contributions to orchestral writing. There are...

Martin Stall uses bespoke shears!

http://www.martinstall.com/index.php?op ... d=88888917

--Andre

All this leads me to wonder if one day Gaziano style will be challenged by a new entrant and one of you will write about the beginnings of his brand and the hurly-burly it incited among owners of a real English shoe, Edward Green. FWIW, Tony's mentioned approximately the same sentiment as above to ...

Symons wrote: How long was Thomas Mahon of English Cut actually at Anderson & Sheppard and what did he do there?

Tom explains his history here:

http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000003.html

--Andre

I'm not sure if Edwin is talking about this, but Tom goes into some detail in this blog post:

http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000030.html

I believe that Steven Hitchcock has also written that he uses the Rock of Eye method.

--Andre