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Naples has the biggest concentration of high-end handmade menswear in the world. Although not so much for shoes, for tailoring and shirtmaking this is the motherlode, with hundreds of tailors in the city and surrounding...

The two-week period for placing special orders of our Friday Polos ends tomorrow. So if you are planning to take advantage of the opportunity to order one in any colour or size (including XS and XXL) please do so by mi...

As promised during conversations around the last batch of Friday Polos, we are now offering special orders - for the next two weeks only, until July 12th. This is primarily to give readers that require an XS or XXL the...

This feature is the first in what will become a series on Permanent Style, in which we analyse the seasonal offerings of all the top menswear brands, and pick out our favourite ten pieces. As ever on Permanent Style, th...

Friend and author Bruce Boyer recently penned a startlingly ambitious piece on the importance of clothing, for US Catholic journal First Things. I have obtained permission to reproduce a section of it here. It argues ...

Tokyo is arguably the most varied, creative and stimulating retail experience in the world. Not only is the city huge, but each area has a distinct feel and atmosphere, reflected in its shopping. There are small, niche ...

*Please check the Shop page for stock. Some size/colour combinations now sold out* I'm pleased to say that the short-sleeved permutation of our highly popular Friday Polos are available again in the Permanent Style shop...

We'll be taking a break from the Symposium series of talks this summer, because frankly the Style Guide and the Savile Row pop-up have just been too much. And there's another dinner to come. So I can finally enjoy an i...

American podcast Blamo! recently featured an interview with me, which you might enjoy listening to. Founded by ex-Armoury man Jeremy Kirkland, it interviews both fashion and music innovators to talk about their experi...

This is going to sound rather cheesy. Forgive me. I believe in Permanent Style. I believe in the value of investing in products made to last. And I believe in style that lasts decades, even centuries. (Though maybe not ...

Since we introduced the Trunk Show Calendar last year, it has become an increasingly popular part of the website. For those that missed the announcement (and the link in the site navigation, above), the Calendar was a ...

It would be lovely to see as many Permanent Style readers as can make this, our US book launch. The event will be at The Armoury, 168 Duane Street, 6pm-8pm on April 20th. Please RSVP to NYC@TheArmoury.com if you'd like...

In a similar way to Stoffa (covered recently here), I loved the aesthetic of P Johnson tailoring before I ever got to see any in person. We are all - in our various ways - battling to show how useful, beautiful and rele...

Two weeks ago, I chaired a discussion in the Private White VC shop in Mayfair around the topic of British manufacturing. It turned out to be one of the most enjoyable such talks I’ve ever done. The speakers were g...

From today, our Finest Knitwear is available to buy in the online shop. There was a lovely reception to it in the Savile Row pop-up, with dozens of readers coming in to try and to buy. But I'm pleased to say that we sti...

On Thursday this week I will be chairing a talk at the Private White VC store on Duke Street, Mayfair. Featuring speakers from Edward Green, Inis Meain and Alice Made This alongside Private White, the talk will focus o...

There was a point in my speech where I got a little emotional. I'd only sketched down some points on the back of an envelope, mostly thanking everyone from the brands, to the audience, to manager James Girdwood. There ...

(Left to right: Elliot of General Eyewear, DaShira of The Hanger Project, Will and Amy of Fox Brothers, Richard of The Armoury, myself, James Girdwood (back), Lia of Codis Maya (front), Beatrice of Luca Faloni, Tommaso ...

Following last week's announcement of our pop-up shop on Savile Row - under the banner 'Permanent Style presents' - here are some details of the shop and the brands. I also include an invitation, above, to any readers ...

Our ever-popular Friday Polos are back, in the four colours of navy, brown, green and light grey. You can buy them on the shop page here. Please don't forget to include the size you want and the colour(s) in the notes ...

After several months of planning (and stress) I'm pleased to say that we finally announce the launch of the first Permanent Style pop-up shop. It will be held in a rather special location - numbers 34 and 35 Savile Row...

Following on from Wednesday's post on the Symposium discussion, here are Mark Cho's specific responses to some of the questions. Mark wrote the below in preparation for the talk (bless him) and he makes some interesting...

During my lifetime, there has been a steep fall in the quality and range of menswear retail around the world. Designer brands have expanded aggressively; independent multi-brand shops have closed; and department stores ...

Plaza Uomo editor-in-chief Konrad Olsson with Alessandro SquarziHolding our Symposium with Plaza Uomo mixed up the crowd rather at our after-party. Here are some of the dressed-up men (and women). Full piece on the Sym...

George Wang: Brio, BeijingAs with previous Symposia, here is a preview of next week's coverage of the Retailers Symposium, with portraits of our six speakers. I have to say, they were the best six people yet in terms o...

As is traditional, Graham Browne are having a sale between Christmas and New Year - and just as traditional is my writing to tell readers about it. The sale will run on the 28th, 29th and 30th of December, and offer su...

I'm really excited about our next Symposium, scheduled for Tuesday, January 10th. First, because while it brings together some of my favourite people - as with all the symposia - the subject is very different. It will ...

It’s been great to see the reaction to our Trunk Show calendar since it launched in September. You’d expect artisans to be keen, given it’s a free way to advertise their travels to Permanent Style read...

The next in our regular installment of small brands doing interesting things looks at some ties, handkerchiefs and knitwear. Viola Milano x Alexander Kraft First up is a collaboration between Alexander Kraft and online ...

Choosing a suit cloth is, in some ways, harder than any other area of clothing. Because they all look so similar. If we leave aside the more aesthetic – and subjective areas – of colour and pattern, we are l...

*Many sizes are now sold out. For a breakdown of remaining stock, please see the shop page* With excitement and not a little relief, given how many people have been asking, I'm glad to say the Friday Polos are now bac...

Our trip to Japan this week was meant to be roughly split into three parts: retail (for a shopping guide), bespoke makers (for a range of posts and freelance articles) and Japanese crafts (around Osaka and Kyoto). But s...

Today we launch something rather different on Permanent Style: a live Trunk Show Calendar. The calendar is a central, coordinated listing of bespoke menswear trunk shows around the world. It lists, month by month, who i...

The next young tailor I wanted to highlight on Permanent Style is Ayres Goncalo, a Portuguese who worked at Gieves & Hawkes in London for four years, before returning to Porto to set up his own shop in 2011. I met A...

Several weeks ago, I wrote a review on Permanent Style of an artisan. The review contained good and bad points, with the latter focusing largely on quality of work. I had mentioned these points when I received the finis...

I love how enthusiastic the reaction to our new website has been. Even a few non-digital natives have said they're coming to love the navigation. People are highlighting quite a range of different points, however. So I ...

This week the young tailors featuring in our Symposium at Pitti will be taking over my Instagram account. Every day, a different one of the six tailors from England, Italy, Hong Kong and Korea will post images of the pi...

If you like the style and structure of Saint Crispin's shoes, they offer some of the best value available anywhere. Pictured here is my first pair, made a couple of months ago - a wingtip in brown, with an alligator ad...

Every Pitti Uomo for the past two years, we have held an event to bring people together with a unique group of the finest craftsmen in the world. For the next instalment, we will be returning to last summer's focus: be...

I am proud to say that at the end of this week we will be launching a brand new Permanent Style website. The content will be the same, but it will be more expansive, modern and easier to browse. It’s been a long ...

Bryan Manning (above) is a cutter who trained at Kilgour French & Stanbury, before running his own workshop in various forms for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of his career, howe...

Here is the interview produced during my recent visit to the Leatherfoot Emporium in Toronto, as part of their grand opening. Some interesting questions about quality and craft, and you get a bit of a sense of the wor...

When I fantasise about running my own shop, stocked with the greatest menswear money can buy, it normally involves having the finest tailor and the finest shoemaker on site, beavering away just for me. I discovered l...

Sharp magazine interviewed me during a recent trip to Toronto, Canada and wrote up the nice piece above. They were particularly interested in my wardrobe staples, and basic tips on dressing well. You can read the ful...

*Stock is now very limited. For the current position please check the Shop page* The latest batch of our Friday Polos has continued to sell well, and we’re down to just a few shirts in each of the various size...

Our next book signing event will be in Canada in a couple of weeks – at LeatherFoot in Toronto. I think this is the ninth such event we’ve held in the past six months, and I enjoy them so much. It’s ...

*Stock is now very limited. For the current position please check the Shop page* Thank you everyone for your fantastic response to our new Friday Polo batch. So far we have sold 130 of the 200 in this batch, and nav...

When I was a teenager, we went on holiday to New York as a family. And although I looked in many shops, particularly the Rhinelander Mansion, it was Paul Stuart that I loved the most. Ralph Lauren was a lot more poli...

Although Paris has never been a centre of menswear – unlike London or Milan – there is a surprisingly broad range of small companies and artisans worth visiting. More, arguably, than anywhere in Italy outs...

The Bespoke Tailors Benevolent Association dinner is a wondrous thing. Every year, 300 or so tailors, friends and cloth merchants gather at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall on Threadneedle Street in London. There are ...