I was not expecting much from Richard Anderson’s Bespoke. The accompanying press release from the publisher carried an endorsement from that cynosure of male style, that arbiter elegantiarum, Simon ...

Ozwald Boateng (L), was at this month's Met Gala, with his son (C), Oscar, and daughter (R), Emilia [Getty Images] ...

Among them are the sound of shears slicing through wool in a Mayfair cutting room, the chalk marks mapping a future jacket on a ... in the next era of Savile Row bespoke tailoring.

Back in 1995, Boateng was the first black designer to open a shop on Savile Row, a London street famed for fine tailoring. "When I first started as a designer, Savile as a street was a dying ...