10 entradas
Personas
Las personas cuyas decisiones cambiaron la forma de vestir del hombre, desde reyes y dándis hasta los sastres que cortaron para ellos.
People
10 entradas
01
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor
The most consequential dresser of the twentieth century, and the customer who made the drape cut famous.
02
Edward VII
The prince who asked for a shorter evening coat, and accidentally created black tie.
03
Gianni Agnelli
The Fiat chairman whose deliberate small errors became a whole aesthetic.
04
Fred Astaire
A dancer's requirements applied to tailoring, and one of the few men whose clothes had to actually work.
05
Cary Grant
Fit above everything, in the same handful of things, for forty years.
06
Ralph Lauren
Did not design a silhouette; assembled an entire visual language and sold it to the world for fifty years.
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Giorgio Armani
1934Took the structure out of the jacket in 1975 and changed what a suit could be.
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Beau Brummell
1778
The man who replaced ornament with fit, and made restraint the most conspicuous thing a man could wear.
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Frederick Scholte
The London tailor who cut the drape, and whose method outlived his name.
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Tommy Nutter
1943
Opened a shop on Savile Row in 1969 with a window display, and dragged the street into its own century.
Créditos fotográficos 7
- Portrait of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) (1894–1972): Photograph · Lafayette · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- [The Prince of Wales (Edward VII)]: Photograph · John Jabez Edwin Mayall · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- 1955-04-20 Salone Torino Fiat 600 Einaudi Agnelli: Photograph · Silvio Durante · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Fred Astaire graumans: Photograph · NativeForeigner · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Cary Grant Blue Plaque (54163702048): Photograph · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- 20191211 04 Ralph Lauren bear (49778660963): Photograph · David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Armani gowns in library: Photograph · Gerda Arendt · Wikimedia Commons · CC0