The London Lounge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -bust.html

Spencer Hart, maker of skinny lapels, is no more. Any thoughts?

The article reads "Savile Row top designer Spencer Hart".
Obviously I will have to learn more about these matters sartorial. So, there are designers on the row after all, and Mr. Nick Hart, who once had a shop on SR, is one of them?

Interesting that only the DM thought it newsworthy.

I can't help but think that any serious tailor still on the Row, might just be contemplating a move to more affordable premises around the corner and away from the vortex of humbug brought about by the advent of 'designers'. I was recently reading about the apparent stupendous success of "Kilgour" (formerly Kigour, French & Stanbury) since engaging a design director. Seeing the photographs of its recently redesigned premises, it's not somewhere that I would want to spend a hundred pounds let alone the telephone numbers that such performance art normally requires to keep going.

I hesitate to make any political point, but would any good tailor really want 'celebrity endorsement' from a politician until they have retired from politics and become a national treasure? I suspect having Mr Miliband as a client might serve to alienate a significant chunk of potential clientele, just as would be the case with any prominent politico. Curious that Spencer Hart plainly thought differently.

Seeing Milliband at the recent conference I assumed he got his suits from one of the 4 shirts for £100 lot.