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The Van Dyke is the UK's trendiest beard style
The dandy style

The Van Dyke is the UK's trendiest beard style

UK beard care and shaving specialists The English Shaving Company have analysed search interest in different types of facial hair over the past decade, to reveal which beard styles are trending, where each style is the most popular, and the UK’s favourite heading into 2021.

What is a British Style Suit and will it work for me
ABC of the men's suit

What is a British Style Suit and will it work for me

England, the home of bespoke tailoring and the biggest contributor to men’s tailored clothing over the course of history. In some ways, suits can be compared to wines and cheese as every country makes them to have its own style.

Rhys Pickering - one of the most famous Instagram models
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Rhys Pickering - one of the most famous Instagram models

Rhys Pickering is an English YouTuber and male model. Scouted in Switzerland during his gap year from university. By 2015, Pickering achieved "top 50 model" status very quickly, shooting with highly respected photographers and working with international brands.

G Tonino Tailors - finest quality suits
Bespoke Men's Suits

G Tonino Tailors - finest quality suits

Bespoke tailoring is a hand-sewn garment, custom-made to the customer's requirements. With over 50 years of craftsmanship experience, G. Tonino's suits are of the very finest quality, hand stitched and lined with canvas.

Lutwyche - luxurious hand-crafted menswear
Bespoke Men's Suits

Lutwyche - luxurious hand-crafted menswear

LUTWYCHE produces luxurious hand-crafted menswear, using traditional English artisan techniques. Offering Made-To-Measure and Bespoke tailoring, all of the clothing is individually hand-cut, made and finished in its own unique workshop in England. The stunning collection receives over 40 hours of hand-crafted tailoring, whilst the ultimate Bespoke approximately 60 hours.

British quality men's shoes by Joseph Cheaney and Sons
Menswear accessories

British quality men's shoes by Joseph Cheaney and Sons

Joseph Cheaney founded the company and moved to the present site in 1896. In 1903 Joseph's sons Arthur and Harold joined the company. In 1930 "Dick" Cheaney, grandson of the founder, joined the company.In 1966 Cheaney won the Queen's Award to industry and was sold to Church and Company. In 2009 Jonathan and William Church bought the company. Their family has been making fine shoes for five generations and they are fully committed to producing the finest footwear entirely made in England.

Oscar H. Grand - Barcelona based custom tailor
Bespoke Men's Suits

Oscar H. Grand - Barcelona based custom tailor

The history of Oscar H. Grand dates back to the year 2001. After working in a textile factory and making small collections for different shops, he decided to open his own shop with the intention of doing something very special and personal with their product, and giving themselves complete creative freedom in the development of their work. In 2006, he opened his shop in the Born district, which has, to this day, been the base for my work. In this space, the hand-crafted pieces created here can be appreciated in person.

Church's shoes - English hand made shoes
Menswear accessories

Church's shoes - English hand made shoes

With 58 days of detailed hand-craftsmanship dedicated to each single pair, the Crown Collection embodies Church's renowned hand-crafted virtuosity like no other.

Edward Green shoes - cut by hand from the world's finest leathers
Menswear accessories

Edward Green shoes - cut by hand from the world's finest leathers

Edward Green established his shoemaking workshop in Northampton in 1890. His name soon became synonymous with the finest English Goodyear welted footwear.

John Lobb - bespoke men's shoes from UK
Menswear accessories

John Lobb - bespoke men's shoes from UK

John Lobb began making bespoke boots and shoes over 150 years ago. Generations of master bootmakers have continued the lineage of unrivalled skill and constant innovation, bringing the spirit of bespoke into the modern era.

Celebrities' style: Christian Bale
Celebrity fashion

Celebrities' style: Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale is born on 30th of January 1974. He is an English actor.

Gucci Cruise 2017 - the English Mania
The dandy style

Gucci Cruise 2017 - the English Mania

Gucci Cruise 2017, whose creative director is Alessandro Michele, consists of 87 visions, which are in the spirit of Michael Fish. Fashion for young people not yet recognized in the matrix of conformism and the constant social sex, whatever that means. The outfits are charming, remembering the British impulse - non-ideological dandy Alessandro Michele says: “Men's Cruise collection was an excellent occasion to outline my vision for eccentricity. It started from My enormous passion for England, I tried to describe what is happening in my imagination, which often reveals aesthetics very similar to English fashion."

English bespoke suits and shirts by Barrington Ayre
Bespoke Men's Suits

English bespoke suits and shirts by Barrington Ayre

Barrington Ayre's mission is to provide the finest English made bespoke & made to order clothing at an affordable price with an approachable set up, allowing people across the World to experience the joy of bespoke clothing.

Savile Row tailors: Philip Alexander
Bespoke Men's Suits

Savile Row tailors: Philip Alexander

Phillip Alexander are experienced and long established bespoke tailors, with a tradition stretching back nearly 140 years. From showroom facilities in London Savile Row and Wilmslow Cheshire, Phillip Alexander provide a full range of high quality tailoring services; Full Bespoke Savile Row garments, Made to measure Semi-Bespoke, Bespoke Shirts and a Tailored Dress Hire Service.

English made-to-measure suits by Medida
Made-to-measure

English made-to-measure suits by Medida

Medida make made to measure suits and shirts, using the very best materials and the most modern cutting and tailoring techniques to bring you top quality clothes at off-the-peg prices.

English tailor-made suits by Brook Taverner
Bespoke Men's Suits

English tailor-made suits by Brook Taverner

Since 1912, Brook Taverner has been a leading name in classic men's tailoring. Their beautifully tailored suits, jackets, mens trousers and overcoats are produced using premium cloths from sources around the world.

Key differences between the American, the English and the Italian suits
How to buy the perfect suit

Key differences between the American, the English and the Italian suits

There are three main types of suits' cut: American, British and English. And now we will explain the key differences between them. Every type has characteristics that describe it and differ from the other two types.

Bespoke suits by Jonathan Behr
Bespoke Men's Suits

Bespoke suits by Jonathan Behr

There was a time not so long ago when a man's relationship with his tailor was as important and trusted as the ones he held with his barber, attorney, accountant and physician.

Bespoke English tailoring by Mullen and Mullen
Bespoke Men's Suits

Bespoke English tailoring by Mullen and Mullen

Mullen & Mullen is a family tailoring firm, founded by Damien & Dominic Mullen in 2004. They're proud to produce bespoke tailoring in Yorkshire from the finest cloths. Their London visiting tailor service brings the fine fit of a bespoke garment together with the convenience of fittings at a location of your choice. They are passionate about bespoke tailoring. Mullen & Mullen is a family business, priding itself on the quality of their service, clothes and the attention they give their customers.

Bespoke suits and shirts by Zink and Sons Tailors
Bespoke Men's Suits

Bespoke suits and shirts by Zink and Sons Tailors

Bespoke suits are the centerpiece of their business and it’s what their firm has been doing better than anyone else for well over a century. Their eye for tailoring and detail is the reason Zink & Sons is still making suits today. With over 118 years of experience in this field we are the best in the business.

Scabal Tailoring - Made-to-measure experience
Made-to-measure

Scabal Tailoring - Made-to-measure experience

Your sartorial adventure with Scabal comprises of selecting the finest luxury fabric, choosing the style of the cut crafted with Savile Row tailors techniques to suit your individual measurements, down to picking your unique personalised detailing both inside-and-out.

The Archive Collection - Celebrating 150 Years of Shoemaking at Grenson
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The Archive Collection - Celebrating 150 Years of Shoemaking at Grenson

To celebrate 150 years of continuous shoemaking at Grenson, they decided to look back through their archives and recreate a collection of their past shoes that span the decades of the 20th Century.

English actor Andrew Lincoln is among the nominees for Most Stylish Men 2016
Celebrity fashion

English actor Andrew Lincoln is among the nominees for Most Stylish Men 2016

Andrew Lincoln is an English actor, most famous for his portrayal of Rick Grimes, the lead character on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead.

Menswear accessories: Bowler hat
The dandy style

Menswear accessories: Bowler hat

Frenchmen call this hat 'chapeau melon' and Germans 'Melone' because it looks like a melon fruit. Until 1960s, the Bower hat was a symbol of London's brokers and bankers and today it's a mandatory attribute of the officers of the Queen's Guard as part of their urban civilian clothing.

Happy Birthday Celebrities: Rupert Grint
Celebrity fashion

Happy Birthday Celebrities: Rupert Grint

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint is an English actor, most famous for his part as Ron Weasley from Harry Potter film series. He is a birthday boy today and we wish him a lot of luck with his latest project Snatch - the new series for Crackle network.

Happy Birthday Celebrities: James Corden
Celebrity fashion

Happy Birthday Celebrities: James Corden

James Kimberley Corden is an English actor, writer, producer, comedian and television host, currently hosting The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. He is a birthday boy today and we wish him to keep his charm and strong presence on the screen.

Tailored made suits by SARTORIA F. CARACENI
Bespoke Men's Suits

Tailored made suits by SARTORIA F. CARACENI

SARTORIA F. CARACENI are an authentic Sartoria, under every aspect. They create handmade suits, designing them on the client’s body shape and posture, using only traditional work tools. The staff is carefully selected based on parameters such as experience and passion for this ancient profession. With great pride, they are appreciated worldwide as an Italian excellence of this wonderful profession. The main production specializes in tailor made suits for men.

Cad & The Dandy: It’s about making the best suits and creating a new destination shopping experience
Interviews

Cad & The Dandy: It’s about making the best suits and creating a new destination shopping experience

Interview with James Sleater, one of our founders and co-directors of Cad & The Dandy.

The Barbour jacket
The dandy style

The Barbour jacket

By buying a Barbour jacket you will own not just a comfortable piece of cloth, great for rainy weather, but also a piece of the international life style. A piece, which belongs to the world of those, who have money, style and success.

More about the cut of men's trousers
The dandy style

More about the cut of men's trousers

Most men tend to consider that the cut of trousers depends on fashion whims and fancies. In reality, the details in the cut of trousers change season after season and the whole basis of the cut is changed every 10 years.

Savile Row tailors: Chester Barrie
Bespoke Men's Suits

Savile Row tailors: Chester Barrie

Chester Barrie is a quintessentially British brand. Based on London's Savile Row, home of many great tailoring names, Chester Barrie was founded in London in 1935 by Simon Ackerman, an Englishman who had emigrated to the States.

Savile Row tailors: Richard Anderson
Bespoke Men's Suits

Savile Row tailors: Richard Anderson

Producing only the highest-quality garments, Richard Anderson clients have come to expect excellence as a given. Richard Anderson's clientele - many of whom are leaders in their own fields - are uncompromising in their demand for quality.

Tailor Made to Fit - English made-to-measure suits
Made-to-measure

Tailor Made to Fit - English made-to-measure suits

Tailor Made To Fit crochets your ideas with the finest hand-picked fabrics with elegant craftsmanship to construct luxurious Suits, Jackets, Shirts, Overcoats and other outfits that drape off your body frame stylishly.

How to offer a variety of men's suits even if you are a small atelier
How to produce

How to offer a variety of men's suits even if you are a small atelier

If you are an emerging designer or a tailor with a small atelier, you might not be able to offer a variety of fabrics for your customers as this requires a lot of investments. A good decision is to work with a factory that has already bought all fabric collections from major Italian and English wool fabric producers.

Gucci Men's Cruise 2017 collection
Menswear collections

Gucci Men's Cruise 2017 collection

'The men's Cruise collection was an excellent occasion to best depict my idea of eccentricity. Everything started from my great passion for England. I tried to describe what's going on in my imagination, which often embraces an aesthetic very similar to the English one', said Alessandro Michele.

S.W. Wilson - The Finest Men’s Suits in Phoenix
Bespoke Men's Suits

S.W. Wilson - The Finest Men’s Suits in Phoenix

The term Bespoke originated in the world-renowned Savile Row of London, referring to a multi-stage measuring process. Bespoke refers to making clothing from scratch by a custom tailor. This ensures the perfect fit along with any customized details chosen by the client.

Tailor's tips by Vitale Barberis Canonico: Trousers
ABC of the men's suit

Tailor's tips by Vitale Barberis Canonico: Trousers

Vitale Barberis Canonico, one of the oldest woollen mills of the world, celebrates bespoke tailoring with the project Tailor`s Tips, a series of 12 videos in which the master tailor Giovanni Barberis Organista, directed by Gianluca Migliarotti, tells what happens behind the scenes when a hand-stitched suit is created.

Cad & The Dandy - a passion for all things tailoring
Bespoke Men's Suits

Cad & The Dandy - a passion for all things tailoring

Cad & The Dandy has a passion for all things tailoring. They don’t over complicate things, operating from premises in Savile Row and The City, with their trained Savile Row tailors, cutters and finishers. They offer three grades of tailored suit: fully hand-stitched, half hand-stitched and machine stitched. All of our suits start with pattern creation, done by hand and retained for future orders.

British Fashion: Casely-Hayford
Menswear collections

British Fashion: Casely-Hayford

The Casely-Hayford House has been founded on two simple phrases: English Sartorialism and British Anarchy – phrases which embody key elements of the English character.

English Fashion: Oliver Spencer
Menswear collections

English Fashion: Oliver Spencer

Showing two collections a year at London Collections: Men, Oliver Spencer has built an international reputation for what GQ calls a 'uniquely British take on relaxed style'

William Halsted - a part of the largest speciality fibre manufacturers and merchants in the world
Sustainable fabrics

William Halsted - a part of the largest speciality fibre manufacturers and merchants in the world

The company was founded in 1875 in Bradford by William Halstead (1815-1924). Late in 1889 with the business expanding rapidly, William built Stanley Mills to which the company transferred in 1890 and still operates from today. The business has been run by a further five members of the family until in 2006 the company was acquired by SIL Holdings Ltd, another Bradford based family textile business. SIL are one of the largest speciality fibre manufacturers and merchants in the world.

English fashion: Hardy Amies
Menswear collections

English fashion: Hardy Amies

Having written a regular column for Esquire on men's fashion, in 1964, Amies published the book ABC of Men's Fashion. Amies's strict male dress code included commandments on everything from socks to the summer wardrobe. When, in July 2009, the Hardy Amies Designer Archive was opened on Savile Row, the Victoria & Albert Museum reissued the book. He stated, "A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them." In 1974, Amies was entered into the Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Hield Brothers - a manufacturer of the finest quality English cloth
Sustainable fabrics

Hield Brothers - a manufacturer of the finest quality English cloth

Hield Brothers was established in 1922 during the reign of His Majesty King George V of the United Kingdom, a year which saw the British Empire at its largest ever, covering one-quarter of the world's population. The company was founded by entrepreneurs David and Hugh Hield under the name Hield Brothers in West Yorkshire as a manufacturer of the finest quality English cloth.

Men's scarves by Burberry
Menswear accessories

Men's scarves by Burberry

Men's scarves in a selection of colours, checks and prints, in two weights. The iconic cashmere designs are made in Scotland and can be monogrammed.

'Milan' is the Top fashion buzzword of 2015
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'Milan' is the Top fashion buzzword of 2015

It seems that Milan will take again its place as a capital of Global Fashion (it was last on the Top Spot in GLM's annual ranking in 2008) - or at least will stay one of the Big Four.

Japan: Made-to-measure and Made-to-order men's suits
Made-to-order Men's Suits

Japan: Made-to-measure and Made-to-order men's suits

Young Japanese tailors are meticulous in their work and attentive to customers' needs, so they're well-placed to win the hearts of their clientele.

Fashion Design Education: Istanbul Moda Academy
Fashion design education

Fashion Design Education: Istanbul Moda Academy

İMA collaborates with world-famous fashion schools such as London College of Fashion, Polimoda, Institut Français de la Mod and Nottingham Trent University, providing its students access to international institutes, brands and designers.

Fashion Design Education: Milan Fashion Campus
Fashion design education

Fashion Design Education: Milan Fashion Campus

Lessons are taught in English, Italian and Spanish. Translators for other languages are possible upon special requirement. There is no age limitation or qualification requirement to attend MFC's courses.

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