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COVER Tommy Nutter I


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INSIDE: FIND OUT WHAT TOMMY NUTTER SAID MADE HIM HAPPY. TOM CORBY ON THE BOOK THAT’S THE TALK OF SAVILE ROW PAGES 22-27


SAVILE ROW STYLE MAGAZINE 9


CAUGHT UP WITH EDWARD Sexton, one of the doyens of Savile Row, the other day and talked to him about Tommy Nutter. More precisely, I asked him: “What made


Tommy happy?” Edward took his time before telling me: “Tommy was a very laid back guy. He would get pleasure out of getting lost in fantasy. Tommy was a complete fantasist.” Master Tailor Edward, looking far


sharper and on his game than any man midway through his eighth decade deserves to look, was being quizzed about his former business partner as a new biography of Tommy Nutter – House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row by Lance Richardson – was being unveiled to a fascinated public at Hatchards on Piccadilly.


If you wanted to be beautiful, you had to be prepared to suffer, says Edward Sexton


Tommy was the public face and


Edward the tailoring genius behind Nutters, the fashion house which ripped up the rules of Savile Row in the late 1960s. Edward remembers when the pair teamed up. “When we got together, Savile Row was a really staid place,” he said. “It was boring. There were curtains across the windows – very intimidating. “But we were two young guys who


wanted to make a living and create our own look. When we put our garments in the window, it shocked Savile Row to


the core. People said ‘We’ll give them six months’. The turning point came when the clients of other tailors looked into our window and then went into their tailors and said: ‘Could you please make my lapel a little bit wider? Could you please make my trousers a little more flared’? Gradually Savile Row started to change. The curtains came down, the heavy oak doors were left open and you would start to see models appear in [other] windows as well. We were a breath of fresh air.” The pair went on to make the iconic


white suits Mick and Bianca Jagger wore, as well as those worn by Paul McCartney and John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Even though Tommy died more than 25 years ago, his standing and reputation on the Row seems as high as ever, certainly if you judge by the number of people crammed into Hatchards for the launch – “It’s all rather overwhelming,” admitted author Lance. “I was only expecting four people to turn up.” Before the evening was out though,


Edward did admit there was a price to be paid for choosing the close-fitting clothes at Nutters. “If you wanted to be beautiful, you had to be prepared to suffer,” he said with a smile. A small price to pay, in my view, for being part of the generation which bridged the divide between Savile Row and the King’s Road.


DANIEL EVANS Managing Editor Savile Row Style Magazine


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