UNDER THE SKIN

Far be it from us to disparage the hallowed craft that has always sat at the centre of our editorial focus, but wool fabric is an extremely forgiving friend to the bespoke tailor. Thanks to millions of years of evolution, as well as the diligence and perspicacity of the world’s best sheep farmers and cloth makers, it has unmatched stretch, pliability and crease recovery. Even the finest, thinnest, minuscule-micron batches of warp-and-weft twine behave with dutiful subservience.

Now imagine carrying out similar tasks to the conventional tailor’s but with the bulkier, denser, fibrously inconsistent material that is animal hide: it’s an image that calls to mind the trickiness that’s website.