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Nick Scott

Keeping it real

With eight years until its centenary, Ettinger’s story has seriously gathered pace over the last few decades. A house founded in 1934 as a supplier of leather goods to Harrods, Fortnum & Mason, and Asprey, it was granted a license to produce official leather merchandise for the Wimbledon Championships in 1992; was granted a Royal Warrant by the then-Prince of Wales – now His Majesty Charles III – in 1996; acquired James Homer Ltd., one of England’s oldest leather factories, in the Midlands town of Walsall (the saddlery and leather-goods capital of Victorian Britain) in 1999. Then came the international expansion milestones: the opening of its Tokyo (2013) and Seoul (2021) boutiques, and a residency in Turnbull & Asser’s New York Townhouse in 2019.

Nick Scott

With Thom Sweeney’s Madison Avenue opening, America’s crush on British tailoring has become a full-blown love affair

Purveyors of premium menswear don’t come more British than Thom Sweeney. The house’s roster of celebrity clients includes Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, and Davids Gandy (of D&G ad fame) and Beckham. Walk into its London flagship – a four-story townhouse on Mayfair’s Old Burlington Street – and you’re likely to hear The Rolling Stones or Britpop blasting through the speakers. Even the house cut – high armhole, slim sleeve, silhouette softened a little – is characteristically British. Thom Sweeney’s ‘elevated and grand’ Madison Avenue interior [Matteo Verzini] So it’s perhaps inevitable that America has embraced Thom Sweeney with such gusto.