TRIBUTE
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the unique Marie Scot, founder and editor of Savile Row Stle Magazine
H
ow does one describe an enigma, asks Robin Dutt? One doesn’t, but is simply glad to have known one. I was one of the lucky (many)
to have met, known and adored Marie Scott – a well… what shall we say? I know she wouldn’t mind. Minx, Lynx, Powder Blue Persian Cat. There was something always, to me, slinky-feline about her – sensationally independent and deliciously arch. That Marie was stridently left field is a given – directional too, determined and tireless. Her humour warmed the room. Her smile did as much with the illumination of that too. Just before the day’s work was through, eyes would be fixed on the clock’s minute hand as it edged closer and closer to cocktail time.
For 50 years, Marie was at the forefront
of fashion journalism. However, I would like to make (as surely she would have done too) the vital distinction between fashion and style. She might have written about the “now”, but always with stylistic flair.
Marie started working in the world of clothes with John Taylor, the editor of The Tailor & Cutter Magazine – a voice of calm authority and passion from the early 1960s until his death in 2003. It is often said that if you can remember the ’60s you can’t have been there. Marie was and Marie did. Her rapacious interest in the rapidly changing stylistic changes of the experimental 1960s and ’70s, before everything (style-wise) collapsed in the ’80s, was unstoppable.
Marie and John, who was both her life and business partner, published a series of titles that proudly promoted bespoke tailoring, including the influential and respected, Style Magazine. Later Marie became editor of MensWear. This was roughly around the time that I met her and then encountered her at so many subsequent fashion and salon shows where her diminutive form was so discernible amongst the vast egos of those with no reason. No names, no pack drill but you yourselves know who you are (Marie would have liked this lick of mischief). R
18 SAVILE ROW STYLE MAGAZINE
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