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BEST DRESSED DINNER
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Bespoke Tailors' Benevolent Association Festival Dinner in February (2016)
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he impressive Merchant Taylor’s Hall played host to the world of tailoring this spring with the annual Bespoke Tailors’ Benevolent Association (BTBA)
Festival Dinner. The impressive hall, resplendent with fl ags and heraldry, was the perfect location for what is surely the best dressed guest list in the UK. More than 300 guests, including the majority of tailors from Savile Row, plus woollen mill merchants and many associated trades, enjoyed an impressive dinner and auction, with substantial funds going to the BTBA. Guest speaker, Yeoman Warder Jason Woodcock gave an amusing glimpse of life in the Tower of London, although he was not dressed in his instantly recognisable Beefeater uniform, which would have been appropriate as these uniforms are made by The Row’s Dege & Skinner. Building on the success of this evening, the BTBA is already
looking ahead to its key summer event. This a more informal dinner dance for the tailoring community on Friday 8 July, again at Merchant Taylors’ Hall. Tickets are now available from
info@bespoketailorsbenevolentassociation.com and more information is available at
www.bespoketailors
benevolentassociation.com. The BTBA is the result of a merger between two of the
British tailoring industry’s oldest and most revered charities – the Master Tailors’ Benevolent Association (established in 1887) and the Tailors’ Benevolent Institute (established in 1861). The Association’s remit is to aid and award grants when necessary to anyone who has worked in British tailoring at any level for a period of 10 years or more. Q
close cit shave he award-winning Ruffi ans Barbers has just opened its second store in London – at 63 Wigmore Street. After launching and then
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winning a clutch of awards in Edinburgh in 2012, the team behind Ruffi ans headed south a year later to conquer London from Covent Garden with equal success, including winning the Best Salon Team in the UK at the Creative Heads Awards 2015. Ruffi ans style themselves as “Engineering for Men”, with a menu featuring haircuts, moustache trims (including twiddlying), cut throat razer shaves and beard tidies. In addition, each Ruffi ans boasts a whisky and coff ee bar, plus a rolling calendar of seasonal tipples, just to add to that Ruffi ans experience. Q
PERFECT TIMING f you are into watches then Baselworld must be a kind of heaven on earth. Some 1,500 exhibitors all under one roof, talking timepieces. New trends usually
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start here and this year’s fair was no exception. Matching straps to faces was a popular theme and blue in a range of shades appeared the watchmaker’s preferred palette. Although Hublot has created a conversation stopper with its transparent Big Bang Uniquo. There is also a shift towards thin, with some heavyweights moving to a new, featherweight division. We look at this in more detail on page 42, highlighting a new, sleeker look from the likes of Nomos and Piaget. Even the king of big watches, Richard Mille, is creating lighter timepieces. Q
William Skinner Dege & Skinner
Simon Cundey Henry Poole
Matthew Crocker Gieves & Hawkes
30 SAVILE ROW STYLE MAGAZINE
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