Tailors seek stitch in time to save Savile Row. From: Daily News Record | Date: May 21, 1990| Author: Collier, Andrew | COPYRIGHT 1990 Fairchild Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

TAILORS SEEK STITCH IN TIME TO SAVE SAVILE ROW

Fresh from an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Robert Gieve, vice-chairman of Gieves & Hawkes, the Savile Row custom tailor, contemplates the rapidly shifting fortunes of the tailors of his famous street. "The momentum of expansion is showing its greatest growth in international activities rather than in the UK," he observes.

If Gieve sounds as much like the head of a multinational as he does a Savile R...