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You And Your Richard James

Three natty men, each wearing Richard James in their own inimitable way. Firstly (top), we have @d_dinggg‘s husband-to-be looking good in a classic black shawl collar evening suit, which she cap...

National Television Awards

Backstage at last night’s National Television Awards in London. Sir Tom Jones and Aidan Turner all set to go in Richard James. Super styling by Peter Hawker and Kenny Ho respectively.

Colour Piece

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...

Going Against The Grain

Shown 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...

Take A Letter

A 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...

Myles Ahead

Our 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...

Reel 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...

The Museum Of Last Parties

Yes, 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’...

Reel 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...

Meanwhile, In Mayfair...

David 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...