THEY WEAR IT WELL

EDWARD SEXTON BESPOKE TAILOR

“After beginning my apprenticeship in London’s East End, I started on Savile Row at Kilgour & French. A few years later, I joined a company in Burlington Arcade called Donaldson, Williams & Ward and it was here that I met a young chap called Tommy Nutter, one of my co-workers.

One evening Tommy and I went for a beer. He told me some people that wanted to invest in a new tailoring company had approached him. Tommy had good ideas on style himself and we were able to combine our respective tastes to make a great look, something that really worked. On 14 February 1969, we started Nutters of Savile Row.

We were the first new company on the Row for over 100 years and, even though we were doing these highly stylised garments, we stayed true to the street – the handwork, the beautiful detailing and so on. Nutters was also the first on the Row to have an open window display. Traditionally Savile Row was a very dowdy street with heavy oak doors and curtains across