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Painting a backdrop for a shoot for our SS17 Dandy Kim collection, which is arriving in-store on Savile Row and at Richard James Online very soon… Overall, the colour here is a touch more prono...
Read moreShown here is a marked out pattern for a sleeve, which our Head Cutter Ben Clarke is working on. The challenge is to accommodate the client’s difficulty with shoulder movement which, he says, m...
Read moreA couple of ’50s vintage menus from the Tropicana in Havana, which at that time was very much the peripatetic pleasure seekers’ nightclub and casino du jour. No surprise then that it attracted t...
Read moreOur own Myles and a copy of the latest Popeye, which features… Myles. Following in the wake of the Take Ivy movement of the fifties and embracing all things that would shortly become known as A...
Read moreReel Inspiration - My Week With Marilyn
Pinewood Studios, 1956, and too needy, vainglorious Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Brannagh) is first tested and then moved to much thin-lipped tetchiness by a typically ditzy and dazzling Marilyn Mo...
Read moreYes, it’s that man again… Here’s our store interiors and window display and lighting wizard Philip Oakley – he of Philip Oakley Illuminations, of course – in his pomp (or his ‘dressing up days’...
Read moreReel Inspiration - Downhill Racer
Self-centred, supposedly stereotypical sportsman David Chappelet (Robert Redford) has the single-minded aim of becoming the USA’s first gold-winning Olympic downhill skier in an age when the pod...
Read moreDavid Bowie painted a bit himself, but Beautiful, hallo, space-boy painting (right), the spin painting he produced with Damien Hirst, was his only work (or co-work) to go on sale on the first da...
Read moreSomething strange is in the making on the floor below. Three-Michelin-starred Spanish chef David Muñoz has set up shop with Street XO – a London outpost of his curious ‘punk rock meets fine di...
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