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35 Savile Row - EDWARD SEXTON

 

https://www.edwardsexton.co.uk/pages/35-savile-row

 

Located at No.35 Savile Row, our new store is just a few doors down from the legendary Nutter’s shop, and represents a poignant homecoming. No.35 isn’t quite as provocative as the original Nutter’s of Savile Row store, but it does offer a unique experience on the Row.

 

Designed by friend of the house, interior designer Daniel Hopwood, No.35 is a contemporary ode to the craft of tailoring. The space is finished with striking touches that speak to Edward Sexton’s rebellious, yet elegant design philosophy. Subtle Art Deco and 1970s details reflect the two eras that we find most inspiring, from the metallic angle-poise lighting, to the decadent central marble island. The island forms a centre-piece in the shop and evokes a familiar, bar-like feel for clients to gather round and socialise. Of course, it also doubles as a tailor’s cutting table. Two fitting rooms are separated by plush navy velvet brocade curtains, finished with standing mirrors and carefully curated midcentury furniture.

 

ES MAGAZINE

MY LONDON: EDWARD SEXTON

 

The Savile Row legend gets his shoes from Gaziano Girling, finds spiritual answers at Brompton Oratory and would be happy to dress the King

 

BY SORAYA GAIED CHORTANE

15 DECEMBER 2022

https://www.standard.co.uk/esmagazine/my-london-edward-sexton-savile-row-tailor-king-charles-b1047207.html

 

Home is…

 

Here in my cutting room on Savile Row. I live in Surrey and grew up in Dagenham.

 

What was your first job? I had an uncle who worked as a dressmaker and every holiday I’d deliver trousers to the shops we were working with. Creating has always been in the blood.

 

First memory of London?

 

When I first came to London, I hated it. I moved when I was 10 from the country-side, with big open cornfields. Moving into the city with tower blocks was a change.

 

Where do you go to let your hair down?

 

You know, I’ve done my fair share of letting my hair down all over the world. From Studio 54 to [Kensington nightclub] Yours or Mine, it was mind-blowing. I was in my 30s, travelling for my own company, going to see my clients in restaurants. Now, I blow off steam in my garden and I think it is the best for everyone that I don’t get too excited.

 

Which shops do you rely on?

 

I like Gaziano Girling very much for the most elegant and comfortable shoes. They tend to go well with my suits.

 

Best dinner you’ve had out?

 

I’ve been to all the top restaurants but I’d rather have a good fish and chips on the Brighton seafront at The Regency. It’s the best when you’re sitting and the sun is shining in the evening — you could be anywhere in the world.

 

Where would you recommend for a first date?

 

Well, in my time we would go dancing at The Lyceum. We would start the evening there, then around 10.30 we’d find a local inexpensive restaurant and then get the bus home. The money and technology just wasn’t there to do extravagant things, but dancing is dancing.

 

What would you do if you were Mayor for the day?

 

I would get rid of these electric scooters and bikes on the roads. They are so frightening and dangerous. When I drive over Putney Bridge it’s like the Tour de France!

 

The first guy I saw wearing a suit with trainers was Paul McCartney and I thought that’s really cool

 

What do you collect?

 

I collect years! I’m sentimental about people and feelings, but not objects. I even throw away the celebrity pattern bags, I don’t keep them for the archives. You’re only as good as your next job so it doesn’t matter about the pattern you made 30 years ago. I’m not starstruck about celebrities. If you brought me in King Charles today, obviously I’d be very flattered, but at the end of the day I’ve got a huge responsibility to dress him perfectly.

 

What’s your idea of elegance?

 

Being natural is elegant, someone savvy who tries different things, like a suit with trainers. The first guy I saw doing that was Paul McCartney and I thought, that’s really cool.

 

Biggest extravagance?

 

I would say it is my new studio and shop. I’ve taken this beautiful building for my workshop because I want to be close to my tailors and where my garments are being made.

 

What’s your London secret?

 

Brompton Oratory. I’m quite religious even in my flying years! You don’t have to say set prayers, you can just be in the building and sometimes answers come.

 

Do you have a mantra?

 

My father told me years ago, once you’ve learnt your trade, you’re always your own master. You can pick up your tools and work elsewhere. That stuck with me.

 

Edward Sexton has just opened his new flagship store and studio at 35 Savile Row, W1 (edwardsexton.co.uk)

Prince alleges he was physically attacked by William

SPARE : Prince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new book

 

Prince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new book

 

Exclusive: Harry writes in new autobiography Spare that William ‘knocked me to the floor’ during confrontation in London in 2019

Harry and William in London in September, following the death of the Queen. The Guardian obtained a copy of Harry’s autobiography.

 

Martin Pengelly in New York

@MartinPengelly

Thu 5 Jan 2023 00.03 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/04/prince-harry-william-physical-attack-2019-meghan-spare-book

 

In his highly anticipated autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry recounts what he says was a physical attack by his brother, William, now Prince of Wales, as their relationship fell apart over the younger prince’s marriage to the actor Meghan Markle.

 

Describing a confrontation at his London home in 2019, Harry says William called Meghan “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”, which Harry calls a “parrot[ing of] the press narrative” about his American wife.

 

The confrontation escalated, Harry writes, until William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.

 

The extraordinary scene, which Harry says resulted in visible injury to his back, is one of many in Spare, which will be published worldwide next week and is likely to spark a serious furore for the British royal family.

 

Amid stringent pre-launch security around the book, the Guardian obtained a copy.

 

The book’s title comes from an old saying in royal and aristocratic circles: that a first son is an heir to titles, power and fortune, and a second is therefore a spare, should anything happen to the first-born.

 

Spare is a remarkable volume, in which the altercation between the two princes forms a startling passage.

 

Harry writes that William wanted to talk about “the whole rolling catastrophe” of their relationship and struggles with the press. But when William arrived at Nottingham Cottage – where Harry was then living, in the grounds of Kensington Palace and known as “Nott Cott” – he was, Harry says, already “piping hot”.

 

After William complained about Meghan, Harry writes, Harry told him he was repeating the press narrative and that he expected better. But William, Harry says, was not being rational, leading to the two men shouting over each other.

 

Harry then accused his brother of acting like an heir, unable to understand why his younger brother was not content to be a spare.

 

Kate, William, Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle in September following the death of the Queen.

Kate, William, Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle in September following the death of the Queen. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/AFP/Getty Images

 

Insults were exchanged, before William claimed he was trying to help.

 

Harry said: “Are you serious? Help me? Sorry – is that what you call this? Helping me?”

 

That comment, Harry says, angered his brother, who swore while stepping towards him. Now scared, Harry writes, he went to the kitchen, his furious brother following.

 

Harry writes that he gave his brother a glass of water and said: “Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this.”

 

He writes: “He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”

 

Harry writes that William urged him to hit back, citing fights they had as children. Harry says he refused to do so. William left, Harry says, then returned “looking regretful, and apologised”.

 

When William left again, his brother writes, he “turned and called back: ‘You don’t need to tell Meg about this.’

 

“‘You mean that you attacked me?’

 

“‘I didn’t attack you, Harold.’”

 

Harry says he didn’t immediately tell his wife – but did call his therapist.

 

When Meghan later noticed “scrapes and bruises” on his back, and he therefore told her of the attack, Harry says she “wasn’t that surprised, and wasn’t all that angry.

 

“She was terribly sad.”

 

Harry’s resentment of being the “spare” is the unifying theme of his book, through chapters on his childhood, his schooling, his career as a royal and in the British army, his relationship with his parents and brother and his life with Meghan through courtship, wedding and marriage to their own experience of parenthood.

 

Early on, Harry recounts the story of how his father, now King Charles, supposedly said to his wife, Princess Diana, on the day of Harry’s birth: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”

 

Whether describing his memories and love for Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, or his similar love for his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died last year, Harry is unsparing in his recounting of intensely private scenes and conversations.

 

 

Harry met Meghan in 2016. They married at Windsor Castle in 2018. As Duke and Duchess of Sussex, they began life as working royals but quickly drifted apart from the family and eventually embarked on a largely separate existence, moving to Canada and then California.

 

Their acrimonious split from the royal family has been the subject of endless press coverage, some of it steered themselves, including via a famous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 that caused huge controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world.

 

Subjects from that interview and a recently released Netflix documentary, including a miscarriage suffered by Meghan and her thoughts of suicide, and suggestions of racism within royal circles, are covered extensively in Harry’s book.

 

The book has been trailed and two interviews with Harry are due to be broadcast in the UK and US this weekend, with ITV News at Ten and CBS 60 Minutes. Both interviews are eagerly awaited, trailers and teasers reported on as news as speculation about what Harry has chosen to say in his book continues.

 

In a clip from the ITV interview, Harry said: “I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back.”

 

Given the details recounted in his book, that might not seem immediately likely. Indeed one of Harry’s most pertinent revelations of private conversations between the senior royals comes from the very front of his book.

 

Harry recounts an anguished meeting with Charles and William after the Windsor Castle funeral of Prince Phillip, the queen’s husband, in April 2021.

 

Charles, he says, stood between his warring sons, “looking up at our flushed faces”.

 

“Please, boys,” Harry quotes his father as saying. “Don’t make my final years a misery.”

Oh NO ! Another ‘Bridgeton’ version of a classic novel !?! / Dangerous Liaisons | Official Trailer | STARZ

“You’re better off thinking of it as Bridgeton in France. Gossip Girl in powdered wigs. Game of Thrones in silks, slaying only reputations. Which is to say: park your brain at the door and enjoy the ride.”

 

Review

Dangerous Liaisons review – a classic novel becomes Gossip Girl in powdered wigs

Yes, the script for this adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ book is terrible. Sure, the French accents are ropey. Never mind – park your brain at the door and enjoy the ride

 

Lucy Mangan

@LucyMangan

Sun 6 Nov 2022 09.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/06/dangerous-liaisons-review-a-classic-novel-becomes-gossip-girl-in-powdered-wigs

 

Put aside Choderlos de Laclos’ novel. Forget the magisterial 1988 film version starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich. The new eight-part Starz adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons (Prime Video) is billed as the origin story of the marquise de Merteuil and vicomte de Valmont we know and love-hate. You’re better off thinking of it as Bridgerton in France. Gossip Girl in powdered wigs. Game of Thrones in silks, slaying only reputations. Which is to say: park your brain at the door and enjoy the ride.

 

We are in Paris, 1793. Les peasants are revolteeng, but Camille (Alice Englert) and Pascal (Nicholas Denton) are young and in love and care nothing for the scent of revolution in the air, nor the terrible script they have been tasked with delivering. Nor for any kind of French accent. Englert in fact seems to be aggressively Englishing hers instead, which does make it hard to understand on occasion. “Take me somewhaa I’m not paaaaawh!” she says breathlessly to Pascal. When he spins a dreamy yarn about how that might be accomplished, she slightly unfairly asks, “Have you forgotten my dat?” This, it transpires, means “debt”. Camille (the marquise de Merteuil-to-be) is a courtesan in hock to her madam. Pascal (the vicomte de Valmont come the day) is a mapmaker with a side hustle in seducing rich, titled ladies in the hope of being rewarded with riches and a title.

 

One of his ladies is the current marquise de Merteuil, Genevieve (Lesley Manville, somehow grounding the show while soaring above it all), who has foolishly poured her heart out in letters to him (this is ye olden days’ equivalent of sending nudes, children) and now wants them back. Hmm – oui mais non, says her stripling lover. Alors, says the marquise, and carries on sleeping with him while she works out what to do.

 

The answer comes when Camille’s friend Victoire (Kosar Ali) – no great fan of le petit mapmaker – steals the letters from him and Camille discovers that Pascal has been playing hide the saucisson not just with Genevieve but several others, too. They take them to the marquise and trade them for an introduction to high society. Genevieve, heartbroken about her lover’s betrayal, steps through the stages of grief and arrives rapidly at the lesser-known sixth stage: Massive and Ongoing Vengeance. She begins training Camille out of the ways of the cheap courtesan and into the ways of trading sex for palaces rather than centimes. Camille’s glow-up begins with a Pretty Woman-esque wardrobe fitting and trip to the opera, where Genevieve takes a minute out of her busy bewigging schedule to kick Pascal in the virtual noisettes and send him on his way.

 

Pascal, meanwhile, has only his penis to work with. From second-tier project Florence de Regnier (gloriously played with a fibrillating edge of madness by Paloma Faith) he gets a gold clock, which won’t do.

 

Because they are not yet their fully poisonous adult selves, Pascal is keen to get back into Camille’s good graces, which – for … reasons – requires seducing the look-how-pious-I-am Jacqueline de Montrachet (Carice Van Houten), and eliciting epistolary proof after the fact.

 

From there, it’s just a roiling sea of absurdity. Scam builds upon scam, scandale follows scandale and everybody – except the rightly exasperated Victoire – has a whale of a time. Including the viewer, despite (or perhaps, morally corrupt horrors that we are too, because of) some atrocious dialogue and a liberal scattering of terrible performances.

 

For all that it is about love, sex and the deceits that come with it, this Dangerous Liaisons resists becoming encumbered by any deeper messages about the damage people are willing to do to each other to get ahead. It’s about watching Camille learn the manipulative ropes from a mistress of them and seeing how far she can get on her wits alone. This can get a touch repetitive – you might need to do an episode or two at a time rather than binge-watch the lot – but that’s the common weakness of all but the most riotous escapist fare.

 

In short, give up, kick back, relax and enjoy. Clear your mind of any thoughts of how Pierre C de L must be spinning in his grave. Resistance to the accumulating absurdities is useless. As a wise, if endlessly malevolent man once almost said: it’s beyond your control.

Prince Harry says he wants his father and brother 'back'

'I want my father and brother back': ITV releases trailer for interview with Prince Harry

Prince Harry: I would like my father and my brother back

 

Duke of Sussex tells ITV ‘it never needed to be this way’ and that ‘I want a family, not an institution’

 

Miranda Bryant

Mon 2 Jan 2023 15.46 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/02/prince-harry-would-like-father-brother-back-itv

 

The Duke of Sussex has said he wants his father and brother “back” during an ITV interview due to be broadcast on Sunday, two days before the publication of his highly anticipated memoir.

 

The latest intervention by Prince Harry, expected to again rock Buckingham Palace with revelations of its inner workings, is one of two interviews to be broadcast on the same day either side of the Atlantic. In the other interview, with a US broadcaster, he accuses the palace of failing to protect his family in the same way as other royal family members.

 

The prince says “I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back” in a preview clip from the interview with the ITV News at Ten presenter Tom Bradby.

 

The 90-minute programme, produced by ITN Productions for ITV, will be broadcast two days before Harry’s autobiography, Spare, is published on 10 January.

 

In a series of clips cut together with no questions heard, Harry says “it never needed to be this way” and refers to “the leaking and the planting”, before adding: “I want a family, not an institution.”

 

He also says “they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains” and that “they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile”, although it is unclear to whom he is referring.

 

Filmed in California where Harry lives with this wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and their two children, the interview will go into “unprecedented depth and detail” about his life in and outside the royal family, ITV said.

 

Bradby, who has known Harry for more than 20 years, was also behind the interview during the couple’s 2019 southern Africa trip, when he asked Meghan about the impact of the pressure she was under during an ITV documentary.

 

In comments that became an early public signal that the couple were struggling under the intense media spotlight, she said: “Thank you for asking because not many people have asked if I’m OK, but it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.”

 

In a separate interview, to be broadcast on US television, Harry told the 60 Minutes programme on CBS News that “silence is betrayal” while talking about the alleged failure of Buckingham Palace to defend him and the Duchess of Sussex before they stepped down as senior royals.

 

In a clip from the interview, to be broadcast on Sunday, Harry tells the journalist Anderson Cooper: “Every single time I’ve tried to do it privately, there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife.”

 

“The family motto is ‘never complain, never explain’, but it’s just a motto,” he added. “[Buckingham Palace] will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.

 

“So when we’re being told for the past six years, ‘we can’t put a statement out to protect you’, but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.”

 

Buckingham Palace said it would not be commenting on either trailer.

 

Harry has previously said that Spare is written “not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become”. It will include “the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned”, he has said, promising it will be a “first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful”.

 

The book’s publisher, Penguin, described the memoir as “intimate and heartfelt” and “written with raw, unflinching honesty”.

 

Promotional materials say Harry will write for the first time about walking with William behind their mother’s coffin and include details of his time in the military in Afghanistan, and Meghan and Harry’s home life.

 

An audiobook, read by Harry, will also be released on the same day.

 

The interview comes weeks after the release of the six-part Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan in December, which broke viewing records at the streaming service and divided viewers with its explosive details.

 

The series, directed by Liz Garbus, included personal footage shot by the couple and their accounts of their heartbreak over wars with the palace, claims of Prince William shouting at his brother and briefing against them and the stresses over privacy action against the Mail on Sunday, which they believe led to them miscarrying.

 

Last month, the Sun was forced to apologise after publishing a column by Jeremy Clarkson in which he said he “hated” Meghan “on a cellular level”.

 

The article rapidly attracted widespread criticism and became the Independent Press Standard’s Organisation’s most complained about article. It was later removed from the Sun’s website at Clarkson’s request.

 

A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said the apology was “nothing more than a PR stunt”.