TRIBUTE
John Taylor, Marie Scott and Michael Skinner Remembering Marie
“I first met Marie in the 1970s when she interviewed my father in our dismal premises in Cork Street. Subsequently, together with John Taylor, she was a great supporter of Savile Row and generously reported Pooles return to the Row in 1982. Over the years, Marie took a great interest in the Federation of Merchant Taylors, MTBA and TBI. In fact, Marie thankfully joined our table at the BTBA Dinner last February. Recently she continued her keen interest in bespoke tailoring by editing the Savile Row Style Magazine. Both Mandy and I, together with the staff of Pooles will miss the enthusiasm of dear Marie.”
Angus Cundey, Henry Poole & Co
“Marie was a very good journalist and she exercised her skills with what seemed like minimum effort. She spent a lot of her career in a male-dominated industry, but no one would patronise her. She was a real individual, highly enterprising, and very entertaining.” Janet Prescott, friend and fellow fashion journalist
“Marie Scott looked after us for so long and I must have personally known her for some 60 years. She was a fantastically talented human being who absolutely loved the bespoke tailoring trade and did an enormous amount of good for that trade. We all miss her dearly.”
Brian Lishak, Richard Anderson
“Marie loved Savile Row since her first days at the Tailor & Cutter Magazine. A lot of the time she just worked for love as she just wanted to get the name of Savile Row out there. She was a fantastic person and will be much missed.”
Alan Bennett, Davies & Son
“Marie was always very supportive of my small set up here [in D’Arblay Street] and really understood my trajectory. However, my best memory is the relaunch of Savile Row Style Magazine party [at the Mayfair Hotel in 2014]. I am good friends with the poet John Cooper Clarke who was also at the party, being a Beau Brummell character and a lover of the culture of tailoring and Marie said did I think that John would say a few words. So I asked and of course he made a brilliant, off- the-cuff speech.”
Tom Baker, Sir Tom Baker
“I was, like so many others, very fond of Marie and her vivacious personality and appetite for life. Marie's keen eye for detail, passion for Savile Row and Men's bespoke tailoring will long remain an influence on the pages of this magazine. She was great fun, entertaining and hard working. She will be missed by all of the team here at the magazine and throughout the Savile Row Community.”
Stewart Lee, Savile Row Style Magazine SA VI L E ROW CUS T O ME RS | EVE NT S | P IN -UP | D RINK S | SHOES | WA TC H E S | A N D MO R E ... S AV I L E ROW S T Y L E M A GA Z I N E
It was a great pleasure for me to have worked for her when she was editor of Savile Row Style Magazine and our meetings usually took the form of greeting each other at her club – or mine – over cocktails, to determine the efficacy of this or that idea. It might have been a finite number of features, but this did not extend to our cocktail consumption. But oh, she could be tough! She wasn’t always “sure” (Marie’s way of saying no) about this or that idea, but when she liked something, the phone would ring immediately or the email sent garlanded in flowers. Every time we met, Marie was exotically, beautifully, elegantly turned out. She loved clothes and clothes loved her. She wore them with grace and a sexy chic! We will always miss her. Au revoir, chérie. Q
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