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The gentlemen of Savile Row are getting hot under their stiffly starched collars as they absorb the news that yet another vulgar imposter, this time The Kooples, a French fashion brand, is about to lower the tone of their Mayfair street. (via Not quite our class, darling! Savile Row tailors deny snobbery… - News - Fashion - The Independent)
Why should they deny their snobbery? Standards are good.
The flamboyantly natty Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter with his dogs. ”Although tailoring was quite distinct from fashion then, Tommy Nutter changed the way men dressed,” says Dennis Nothdruft, who co-curated the 2011 retrospective (Tommy Nutter: Rebel on the Row) at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London along with tailor Timothy Everest. “And he changed the way Savile Row was seen. Before Nutters it was an exclusive, closed-off world. They didn’t even have window displays. Though, of course, the rest of the row looked upon him as an upstart whose shop was on the wrong side of the street.” (The huge purple candles in the shape of phalluses can’t exactly have endeared him to his neighbors… Another legend, Simon Doonan, was Nutter’s window dresser back in those days.)
From Admiral Cod
"Nothing is more unsettling than talkativeness and more pernicious than an unbridled tongue, disruptive as it is of the soul’s proper state. For the soul’s chatter destroys what we build each day and scatters what we have laboriously gathered together."
— St. Philotheos of Sinai (via lilianne2)
Levon Helm — Poor Old Dirt Farmer
opera4adults: Dali on a rope
~ Globe Theatre program, February 20, 1924
via Fine and Dandy“Stetsons are cool!”
And “styled for young men”.
(via mshelterskelter)
