The London Lounge

Looks like two major defections from Dege (from Savile Row Magazine (hat tip to Andrey)):

GRAHAM LAWLESS , formerly with Dege & Skinner, is now ensconced just across the road at Davies & Son. He will be largely responsible for overseas travels, covering Germany, Paris, Geneva and the US outside New York. Alan Bennett will continue to make New York visits twice a year.

Lawless was preceded from Dege by ROBERT BAILEY, who has become Head Cutter at Davies.

Graham Lawless was one of the people in charge of customer service at the shop and did some of the non-NY US traveling. Robert Bailey was the cutter for many of the US customers, including me - he took over from my original cutter, which was Michael Skinner. Of course, I never met Bailey, which was too bad, as he didn't travel (not a good system for the customer, though I suppose there is less risk of a cutter taking customers if he never meets them).

The pitfalls of not being family in a family-owned business. The last time with Dege was 14 years ago. Dopey, will you be following suit?

Davies & Son used to grow their own.
NJS

Davies & Son used to grow their own: 5 years' hard graft, a dog's body, a no one, doing nothing right - and then, suddenly, on the last day (in best Cockney style): you're a master cutter, my son - and, by golly, could those boys cut! I used to be complimented by total strangers, in the street, with words like '
nice suit!!!
NJS

Concordia wrote:The pitfalls of not being family in a family-owned business. The last time with Dege was 14 years ago. Dopey, will you be following suit?

I don't think Bailey is traveling to NY, so not likely, but you didn't ask the right question.