The right trousers

OF course, Bianca Jagger was one of many,’ says Edward Sexton with a smile. ‘There was Twiggy and Cilla Black, Linda McCartney, Jean Muir—I dressed her personally…’

The tailor to the stars, now 78, famously created the suit that Mick Jagger wore for his St Tropez wedding in 1971. But he’s also a legend when it comes to women’s suiting and, although the bride wasn’t wearing one of his designs on that particular occasion (her jacket and skirt were YSL), there’s a double-breasted white silk suit of hers in the Sexton archive that might just be—whisper it—even more iconic.

‘Bianca was obviously a very cool, laid-back woman and she loved the looks of the 1930s and 1940s,’ Mr Sexton remembers. ‘When we work with a client, we take their personality and lifestyle into consideration; it was a collaboration.’ He