THE BIG INTERVIEW


ANDREW AT


From Trinidad to Savile Row Andrew Ramroop tells Cindy Lawford about his long journey to the top of his trade


ANDREW RAMROOP IS BUSY SEWING WHEN I TURN UP AT 19 Savile Row for our interview. Though he has already devoted over 200 hours to the 6½ ounce checked wool suit he is working on (for exhibition at the Milano Unica textile fair), he is clearly still relishing the job. “I enjoy sitting and making,” he says, though running both his tailoring house Maurice Sedwell as well as the Savile Row Academy does not allow him much time for it. “People are surprised that I still sit and sew but that’s how I am. You can’t ask an artist to stop drawing or painting.” Andrew, who is 65, has been making clothes for more than five decades, and 2018 sees him celebrate three major anniversaries which demonstrate his dedication to the tailoring craft. The house of Maurice Sedwell is 80 years old, having been established in Fleet Street in 1938; Andrew himself is marking 30 years as the sole owner of Maurice Sedwell; and the Savile Row Academy he founded in 2008 is 10 years old. That same year Andrew was awarded an OBE; the first Savile Row tailor to win one. It truly is an impressive list.


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