High-class clientele

Still known as the most eminent tailors in the world today, these suit makers first appeared on Savile Row, London, from 1803 onwards. Catering to the rich and powerful, famous clients have included Horatio Nelson (who died in a Savile Row cut suit at the Battle of Trafalgar), Napoleon III and Winston Churchill. One of the street’s most famous tailors, Henry Poole, is also credited with inventing the tuxedo in 1865, after the future King Edward VII requested a tailless evening jacket to wear to informal parties.