When did Richard Anderson and Ozwald Boateng become "bespoke" tailors?  Last time I saw RA, he was hawking his "very expensive" ready made jeans.

Andrew Ramroop at Maurice Sedwell is another missing one.....mmm

I think Savile Row is missing a superb opportunity to bounce back. All this obsession with trademarking the term 'bespoke' and setting up appellations is a pretty narrow minded strategy, protectionist strategies always are, it's just a sartorial wagon ring against the "injuns", both literally and metaphorically. They need to look outward not inward.

We are now entering a phase were men want their individuality back, they've had enough of being told what to wear and shelling out thousands to look like everybody else. Ordinary men can now indulge themselves even if they can't afford bespoke suits by the dozen, they can have a few choice pieces like shirts and ties made up personally to there own specification in the most beautiful cottons and silks. This is the exactly the environment were S.Row can and should be flourishing but how do they achieve this?

Well, for a start they're in a unique position, not only do they have the skills, they have the location, right slap bang in the middle of one of the worlds wealthiest cities, a captive market with many men to busy to jump on a plane to Italy when they can hail a taxi straight to the Row. They have access to a rich history of cutting technique and style, access to the latest fabrics, the ability to design and commission their own fabrics. Savile Row needs to become more experimental if it's to survive, it needs to be more creative, cutting with more flair and style, embracing the latest weight fabrics, which are now the fabrics of choice for the younger affluent man, they need to keep their fingers firmly on the pulse of global style trends, leading from the front, not following from the back playing catching up, or worse still stuck in a cobwebbed past, lamenting the good old days. They've gone and hardly anyone now cares...