I like narrow trousers. I'm pretty sure this isn't a fashion thing – they are trendy and have been for a good year or two, but I think it has influenced my choice in tailoring for longer than that. (Side note on very narrow trousers: They only ever look good on thin people. Do not wear [...]...

I have never been an advocate for fashion slavery. Fashion can be quirky and surprising, even delightful but it's an expensive pursuit for one to follow religiously. It also has the disadvantage of lacking permanence; the essence of fashion is that reliance on the idea of perpetual transition, continual evolution. However, while I have long been [...]...

Recently the UK Advertising Standards Authority took a rather ignorant decision to declare that there is no difference between bespoke and made-to-measure. It is a loss to menswear and to language. Sartoriani, a suit maker that recently set up on Bond Street with all manner of promotional offers and advertising, proclaimed that it made bespoke suits. [...]...

"The Med" an impatient acquaintance of mine once remarked "really is quite dead." The remark was made during that very forgettable post-Beach period when everyone I knew was stampeding in the general direction of Thai Air; backpacks, boarding passes and bonhomie. Chums were desperate to corner a piece of the 'Thailand action'; "It's cheaper than [...]...

Things are going full steam ahead on the menswear front, particularly when it comes to New York City, the capital of fashion retail. High end labels are making serious investments and seem quite bullish on the future of men's fashion. Locals style icons like Ralph Lauren are putting money on the table with major brick-and-mortar expansions [...]...