9 exclusive luxury Savile Row suit tailors

Gentleman, browse our list of the finest made-to-measure tailoring and luxury ready-to-wear suiting emporiums on Savile Row, London, to ensure you’re impeccably turned out for your next social or business event:

Renowned for: An assembly line of tailoring and cutting artistry, where each suit component is created and delivered to exacting standards and with military precision. The house style is designed to improve the client’s profile, defining the chest and elongating the body.

Heritage: Tailors with 100 years of collective experience, based on co-founder Anderson’s cutting principles and skills honed while at Huntsman.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes. It’s a six-to-eight-week process with prices starting at around £5,000.
Ready-to-wear: Yes, from around the £1300 mark.
Patrons: Bryan Ferry, George Michael, André Leon Talley.
Website: richardandersonltd.com
Address: 13 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PH
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 734 0001

Renowned for: The Heddon and Brinsley jacket shapes. The Heddon offers a trim, close fit and narrower waist. The Brinsley is a more traditional less close-fitting cut.

Heritage: Founded by Sir Edwin Hardy Amies, who was Queen Elizabeth II’s dressmaker, the brand was acquired by Fung Capital in 2009.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes, within 6 to 8 weeks and from £4,000.
Ready-to-wear: Yes, from £395.
Patrons: Eddie Redmayne, Tinie Tempah, Greggory Peck and David Hockney.
Address: 8 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PE
Telephone: +44 (0) 203 696 1408

Renowned for: A blend of Savile Row tailoring and modern design aesthetic to structure a slim, contemporary form. Boateng has been awarded an OBE.

Heritage: Boateng dressed celebrities such as Mick Jagger and Spike Lee in the mid-80s. In 1995, he opened his first store on Savile Row, bringing his Ghanaian heritage to bespoke British tailoring.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes, both bespoke and made-to-measure options from around £5000.
Ready-to-wear: No.
Patrons: Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Giorgio Armani and Richard Branson
Website: Ozwaldboateng.co.uk
Address: 30 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PT
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 437 2030

Renowned for: Its affordable bespoke service that offers traditional, in-house tailored suits and ‘semi-bespoke’ alternatives hand-stitched, half-machine-made in India. A sleeker, more contemporary silhouette and competitive prices.

Heritage: Born in 2008 out of an alliance between two former bankers whose respective families both had connections to the couture industry.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes, with semi-bespoke suits starting at £800.
Ready-to-wear: No.
Clientele: Toby Jones, Ben Fogle, Chris Eubank, Mike Tindall.
Website: cadandthedandy.co.uk
Address: 13 Savile Row, London, W1S 3NE
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 7434 4244

Renowned for: The quintessential Savile Row experience offering bespoke tailoring with detailing such as frogging, lacework and metal thread embroidery.
Heritage: Founded in 1865, the brand is a three-time Royal Warrant Holder (Queen Elizabeth II, the Sultan of Oman, and the King of Bahrain), famed for its military uniforms.

Bespoke tailoring: Yes, with suits starting at approximately £5000.
Ready-to-wear: Yes with pricing starting just shy of £800.
Clientele: Prince William, David Bowie, Gianni Versace, Michael Jackson.
Website: dege-skinner.co.uk
Address: 10 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PF
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 287 2941

Renowned for: Being the house of choice for Heads of State, world business leaders, performing artists and noteworthy gentlemen from all over the world. The house style favours a high armhole and a roped shoulder.

Heritage: Although it boasts a heritage dating back to the late 1700s, the brand officially opened its doors in 1974. The tailoring house possesses three Royal Warrants: HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, and HRH The Prince of Wales.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes, both bespoke and made-to-measure are available. Suits start at £5000. The process takes between eight and 12 weeks.
Ready-to-wear: Yes with prices starting at around £800.
Clientele: Sir Winston Churchill, Ian Fleming, Michael Jackson.
Website: gievesandhawkes.com
Address: 1 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PB
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 432 6403

7. Norton & Sons

Renowned for: A signature silhouette that is simple and classic with a neatly cut shoulder paired with a shaped waist. Managing director Patrick Grant is one of the experts featured on the BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee.

Heritage: Founded in 1821, the brand has dressed international royalty and at least three US Presidents. The company was purchased by Grant in 2005 after he spotted an ad in The Financial Times calling attention to the sale of the tailoring house.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes, fully bespoke as well as made-to-measure suits. The process takes between eight and 10 weeks – with prices starting at £4,200.
Ready-to-wear: No.
Patrons: Sir Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, King George V and King Edward VII.
Website: nortonandsons.co.uk
Address: 16 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PL
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 437 0829

Renowned for: Creating Ultra Bespoke garments that are individually designed, hand cut and hand-tailored. Creating refined, luxury suits for business through to casual occasions. And unique design quirks to pockets, sleeves, buttonholes and lapels.

Heritage: Master Tailor Andrew Ramroop has been making clothes for more than five decades and has owned Maurice Sedwell for more than 30 years.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes, at around £5000 for a bespoke two-piece suit.
Ready-to-wear: No.
Patrons: Samuel L. Jackson, Brian Lara, Tony Curtis.
Website: mauricesedwell.com
Address: 19 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PP
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 734 0824.

Renowned for: Contemporary, flatteringly slim style, the brand’s iconic ‘pagoda’ shoulder option and an extensive range of fabrics, patterns and prints.

Heritage: Opened on the Row in 2013.
Bespoke tailoring: Yes. Book a private consultation with Master Tailor through the website or by phoning the boutique. Expect no fewer than three fittings and a six-week process.
Ready-to-wear: Yes.
Patrons: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch.
Website: Alexandermcqueen.com
Address: 9 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PF
Telephone: 020 7494 8840

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Sources:

https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/best-london-tailors/
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/savile-row-tailors-london
https://luxurylondon.co.uk/style/his/savile-row-bespoke-suits-tailoring-guide