Angus
Cundey receives MBE in the New Year’s Honours list
January 6, 2016
Posted In: MBE
Chairman of Henry
Poole & Co receives MBE for services to Bespoke Tailoring in the
New Year’s Honours list
Henry Poole & Co
is delighted that their Chairman, Angus Cundey has been awarded an
MBE for services to bespoke tailoring and trade charities in the New
Year’s Honours List. Mr Cundey who has worked on Savile Row for 58
years has worked tirelessly to uphold the bespoke standards of Savile
Row and to ensure the future of pure bespoke tailoring through
training and apprenticeships.
Mr Cundey has also
played an active role in the Bespoke Tailors Benevolent Association,
a charity which supports tailors in financial need and which this
year have supported over 60 beneficiaries. (The Bespoke Tailors
Benevolent Association was formerly the Master Tailors’ Benevolent
Association (est. 1887) and the Tailors’ Benevolent Institute (est.
1861). He is also a founder member of Savile Row Bespoke, an
association which ensures the tailoring houses on the Row work
together to protect pure bespoke tailoring, a craft which has been
practiced in this part of Mayfair for over two centuries.
At the outset of his
career Angus Cundey was taught to sew at Lanvin in Paris in 1955
before continuing his training at the Tailor and Cutter Academy in
London. He joined the family firm, Henry Poole & Co in 1957 as
sixth generation where for many years he was a salesman and fitter.
Mr Cundey, now aged 78 still works part time for Henry Poole & Co
and is affectionately regarded as the ‘Godfather of Savile Row.
Angus
Cundey presented his MBE medal by The Queen
March 30, 2016
Posted In: MBE
On Tuesday 22nd
March, Angus Cundey was presented his MBE medal by The Queen at
Buckingham Palace. Later that evening the great and good gathered for
a party at Henry Poole & Co in honour of Angus’s outstanding
achievement. Poole’s also commissioned Mich Turner MBE of Little
Venice Cake Company to create a cake and not surprisingly it was
fantastic. As you can see from the images the detail in the cake was
astonishing.
We can’t thank
Mich and all those that helped Angus celebrate enough. It was a huge
success and a day that Angus won’t forget.
PHOTO © ANGUS
RECEIVING MBE FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH II CREDIT - IMAGE COURTESY OF
BRITISH CEREMONIAL ARTS LIMITED.
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