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470 entries across tailoring, shoemaking, cloth and craft Reference publication: we sell nothing and rank nobody for payment Every figure carries its source and the date it was checked

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People

The people whose choices changed how men dress, from kings and dandies to the tailors who cut for them.

People

10 entries
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor 01

Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor

The most consequential dresser of the twentieth century, and the customer who made the drape cut famous.

 Edward VII 02

Edward VII

The prince who asked for a shorter evening coat, and accidentally created black tie.

 Gianni Agnelli 03

Gianni Agnelli

The Fiat chairman whose deliberate small errors became a whole aesthetic.

 Fred Astaire 04

Fred Astaire

A dancer's requirements applied to tailoring, and one of the few men whose clothes had to actually work.

 Cary Grant 05

Cary Grant

Fit above everything, in the same handful of things, for forty years.

 Ralph Lauren 06

Ralph Lauren

Did not design a silhouette; assembled an entire visual language and sold it to the world for fifty years.
  1. Giorgio Armani Giorgio Armani 1934

    Took the structure out of the jacket in 1975 and changed what a suit could be.
  2. Beau Brummell 1778

    The man who replaced ornament with fit, and made restraint the most conspicuous thing a man could wear.
  3. Frederick Scholte

    The London tailor who cut the drape, and whose method outlived his name.
  4. Tommy Nutter 1943

    Opened a shop on Savile Row in 1969 with a window display, and dragged the street into its own century.
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  1. Portrait of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) (1894–1972): Photograph · Lafayette · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  2. [The Prince of Wales (Edward VII)]: Photograph · John Jabez Edwin Mayall · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  3. 1955-04-20 Salone Torino Fiat 600 Einaudi Agnelli: Photograph · Silvio Durante · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  4. Fred Astaire graumans: Photograph · NativeForeigner · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  5. Cary Grant Blue Plaque (54163702048): Photograph · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  6. 20191211 04 Ralph Lauren bear (49778660963): Photograph · David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  7. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Armani gowns in library: Photograph · Gerda Arendt · Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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