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The Sartorial Travel Guide
An indispensable, informative, and portable insider’s companion to the most fashion-forward cities for well-dressed and worldly men. This essential travel guide distills a decade of style expert Simon Crompton’s experiences traveling the world to meet and advise the finest menswear producers and artisans—providing everything the modern man needs to know to travel in style and explaining what to buy and where to buy it. Offering insider knowledge on ten of the world’s most stylish cities, including Florence, New York, Stockholm, Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and detailing ten more cities full of emerging talents, each chapter contains listings of the finest shops and ateliers. In-depth...
The Finest Menswear in the World
The first menswear book to go in search of the finest clothes, accessories, and brands in the world, and to explain the craft which makes them the best of the best With impeccable taste and an unerring eye for quality, connoisseur Simon Crompton seeks out the world’s most beautifully crafted contemporary menswear, item by item, from the Panama hat to the Milanese buttonhole. In profiles of fourteen distinguished companies that design, make, and sell their own products, Crompton tells the story of how each luxury item is crafted, explaining the subtle but crucial difference a hand-stitched seam, perfectly cut sleeve, or screen-printed silk can make. Augmented by extensive, specially commissioned photographs, The Finest Menswear in the World delves into every element of the well-dressed man’s wardrobe, both business and casual, from shirts to shoes, suits to scarves, and bags to umbrellas. With Crompton’s expert guidance, the discerning gentleman can dress himself head to toe in the finest menswear in the world.
The Suit
A beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple—at once a garment of tradition, power, and subversion. The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power, and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians, and social revolutionaries through the decades—from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking—the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.
Obsessions: Tailoring
Here is insider advice for every gentleman who is ready to invest in tailored clothing. Armed with this exclusive knowledge, you can now be certain that your jacket sleeve has the correct number of buttons and your suit is appropriate for Ascot, Henley or an ambassadorial reception. As well as tips on the timeless rules of bespoke menswear, advice on how to select a tailor and the common pitfalls to avoid, Simon Crompton offers profiles of the world's finest tailors from Henry Poole and Anderson & Shepherd to Gieves & Hawkes and Oswald Boateng. Obsessions: Tailoring is the perfect fit for any well-appointed bookshelf.
One Savile Row
A handsome volume covering all aspects of bespoke tailoring. Savile Row is the world’s iconic address for the best in bespoke tailoring, and home to legendary Gieves & Hawkes, suppliers to the British military for more than two centuries and furnishers to elegant gentlemen today. The company began by designing attire for Britain’s most illustrious officers, including Admiral Lord Nelson and The Duke of Wellington, as well as ten generations of British royalty, from King George III in 1809 to Princes William and Harry today. As masculine attire evolved after World War I, Gieves & Hawkes added civilian clothing to its repertoire applying centuries of expertise in creating hand-made garments—proportion, cutting, fitting, and quality fabrics—to the finest bespoke tailoring. This volume traces the rich history of tailoring, drawing from Gieves & Hawkes’ vast, unpublished archives of client ledgers, garments and accessories, and photographs. Including today’s bespoke tailoring and ready-to-wear collections, this is an indispensible book on classic men’s style and fine tailoring.
Tailoring
For the men and women who appreciate the finer things in life, The Le Snobs are your guides to the work of skilled artisans, culinary connoisseurs and inspired designers from around the world. Impeccably stylish and beautifully understated, these handbooks will appeal to anyone seeking perfection and, most importantly, ensure you always know more than everyone else. Witty, assured and informative, these books are the perfect foil for your passion for the finer things in life. Is there a sartorial obsessive in you waiting to get out? A modern day dapper Don Draper? Fond of telling people that strictly speaking, it's a coat, not a jacket? Then you need a guide to feed that obsession, to help y...
Ivy Style
A history of "Ivy Style" in menswear, tracing the origins and diffusion of this enduring and classic fashion
This Guy
This beautiful photographic collection is a celebration of modern menswear. In it, photographer Jamie Ferguson profiles men from the fashion industry, covering a range of ages, geographical locations and personal styles. Each of the men profiled works in menswear, but enjoys passions of his own. Tommaso Capozzoli (Sales Director) is also a rower who belongs to an exclusive club whose headquarters sit below the Ponte Vecchio in Florence; Hooman Majd is a world renowned Iranian-American journalist and author; Michael Hill is the founder and creative genius behind Drake's haberdashery in London, New York, Seoul and Tokyo, Simon Crompton is a keen cyclist, and Antonio Ciongoli a gifted skateboarder. This Guy captures not only their impeccable style from London, Paris, New York, Stockholm, Tokyo and Rome but also the lives that made them. Full of aspirational life stories, beautiful photography, and cutting-edge fashion, This Guy is the perfect luxury coffee-table book for anyone who appreciates the finer things in life.
