The London Lounge

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A sad day for the Row.

Maybe someone will step in and buy it up. Hope so.
NJS

I encourage members to go to the Hardy Amies' site and the customer service thread: here - http://hardyamies.com/content/customer_services/ and encourage them to go to the Arts' Council, for funding - here - http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/index.php
- after all, art does not cease to be art because it is useful - and Hardy Amies' creations must beat some of the modern art cr*p that is funded, up to the tune of about £200m a year. They also seem to employ about 50 skilled people too - quite a potential loss to: them; to their families and, frankly, to all. Please do this small thing.
NJS

Why not art? Hardy Amies celebrated its 60th anniversary in a museum, to wit: the Victorian & Albert Museum.
See e.g.: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashio ... index.html

Then, let us do something to try to save this House as a discrete House. At least, let us try our very best.
NJS.

Hardy Amies – I mean the person, more than the company –, in a certain sense embodied the very idea of style. In a well written essay on Amies, Edwina Ehrman shows how Amies’ conception of sartorial elegance was on a par with his understanding of proportions, tradition, furniture, and even botanic contemplation.




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