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Tailors can't afford Savile Row Luxury offices replace home of the bespoke trade MARKETPLACE by Bloomberg
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International Herald Tribune
07-18-2006
Two hundred years of history are coming unstitched on Savile Row in London, as tailors who make bespoke clothes for the rich and famous flee soaring rents.Sewing shops along Savile Row, where Fred Astaire, Cary Grant and Prince Charles once bought custom-made suits, are being converted into luxury offices and retail stores as the growth of London's financial-services industry makes the West End, home to Savile Row, the most expens...
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THE POWER SHIFTS ON SAVILE ROW: A CHANGED WORLD DEMANDS THE 400-YARD-LONG STREET MUST MARKET ITSELF ANEW.
Daily News Record
; LONDON -- Savile Row has long been renowned as the world's center for men's tailoring. Now it wants the same reputation in men's wear retailing. The 400-yard-long street just off Regent Street is finally waking up to the fact that the world has changed. It's shaking off the dusty, snobbish image
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Tailors seek stitch in time to save Savile Row.
Daily News Record
; 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
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Savile Row: the best of the old and new. (London) (All About Clothing Supplement)
Daily News Record
; Savile Row: The Best of Old and New It's called the strip. Savile Row, however, is actually a square mile of London that contains the best of classic British men's tailoring, and it is undergoing a major upheaval. No one has ever disputed that Savile Row represents tailoring at its best, but in the
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Savile Row upstaging Italy. (British influence in men's clothing)
Daily News Record
; SAVILE ROW UPSTAGING ITALY NEW YORK - Savile Row of the 1930s is giving the tailored clothing market a fresh direction for spring '91. And there are many signs that the market is ready for it. To many, the Italian influence has peaked. Even Giorgio Armani sent up signals last year that a change was
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What a stitch-up; The diggers have moved in and the tailors are clearing out. Sartorial traditionalists are in despair while developers are eyeing profits. Savile Row will never be the same again, says Clare Longrigg.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: CLARE LONGRIGG A couple of tailors' dummies lie discarded on Savile Row. Nearby are half a dozen sewing machines. The shop they came from is dark. A 'Sale' sign hangs in the window. It's a Monday lunchtime. People walk by without giving the sorry pile of rubbish a second look. This month,
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