Jules Verne had Phileas Fogg, his lead character in Around the World in Eighty Days, live at 7 Savile Row – a "fashionable address" and "the former home of Sheridan".
7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens… The adventurous, wealthy and rather mysterious Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, is noted in the book's first line as living at “No. 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814”.
A visitor to the roof of 3 Savile Row today (it is now an Abercrombie and Fitch children's shop and its roof is not open to the public) would see essentially the same view, both in the foreground and on the horizon, looking due south.
It's known for its fantastic array of high-end bespoke tailor shops and it was originally named for the very famous Lady Dorothy Savile. She was the spouse of the 3rd Duke of Burlington. Savile Row itself was created during the 1730's and was a part of the vast Burlington Estate.
In 1846, Henry Poole, credited as being the "Founder of Savile Row", opened an entrance to his tailoring premises at No. 32 Savile Row. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers.
Huntsman is owned by investor and bespoke enthusiast Pierre Lagrange and once more fields the largest in-house cutting team on Savile Row – a testimony to the commitment we make to create the finest suit possible entirely in-house.
When you factor in fabric choices, the cost can be more than £10,000. A bespoke suit from Alexandra Wood, starts from £5,000 and includes complete style and design guidance from start to finish and is where Alexandra Wood differs from other tailors.
Famous customers include Charles Dickens, Dr. Livingstone, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, Buffalo Bill, Sir Winston Churchill and Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
Huntsman has probably made clothes for more famous film stars and actors than any other house on the Row, including the 30s heartthrob Rudolph Valentino, 40s hard man Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, film actor before he became President of the USA, as well as Clark Gable, top, known as the King of Hollywood in his ...
The Beatles had purchased 3 Savile Row in London on 22 June 1968, for £500,000. On this day they moved into the building. 3 Savile Row was the headquarters for Apple Corps, which had previously been based at 94 Baker Street and 95 Wigmore Street.
One cannot actually see the rooftop from the streets, which is why the Beatles performed there in January 1969, people were climbing all over the place to get a look. If you are a Beatles fanatic like me, you need to go and get your pic taken. Pus its in a post section of London near some great clothing stores.
It also became a place for Beatles fans to congregate outside – the legendary Apple Scruffs, as immortalised by George Harrison in song. Apple eventually sold the building in October 1976.
Savile Row is a street in Mayfair, central London, known for traditional men's bespoke tailoring.
He is the French valet of the novel's English main character, Phileas Fogg. His surname translates literally to "goes everywhere", but “passepartout” is also an idiom meaning "skeleton key" in French.
In 1974, he found a position with Maurice Sedwell—the only shop that would hire a non-white tailor. Ramroop eventually bought the store in 1988, becoming the first person of color to own a shop on Savile Row.
Huntsman clients have included King Edward VII, King Edward VIII, King Alfonso XII, Winston Churchill, Rudolph Valentino, Lord Mountbatten, Gregory Peck, Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Reagan, Marc Jacobs, Lapo Elkann, and Gianni Agnelli.
Savile Row (originally Savile Street) was laid out in the early 1730s and named after Burlington's wife, Lady Dorothy Savile.
This action/comedy is about a fictional Savile Row tailor that secretly houses the headquarters of an elite spy force. The story was inspired by director Matthew Vaughn's own experiences of buying a bespoke suit on Savile Row.
His two favored suit makers, Anderson & Sheppard and Gieves & Hawkes, have long held royal warrants marking them publicly as official suppliers of the royal.
The film's clothing store is based on a real shop called Huntsman and Sons. Founded in 1849, Huntsman quickly gained a reputation for being the fashion of choice for the high-class horse riders of Europe.
The acquisition of Huntsman Textile Effects adds to the rich heritages of Archroma, with Archroma having previously acquired the global textile chemicals business of BASF, M. Dohmen, and the stilbene-based paper optical brightener business of BASF.
Peter Riley Huntsman (born March 13, 1963, Los Angeles, California) is an American business executive, currently serving as the chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Huntsman Corporation.