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fromEsquire
6 days ago

Up Close and Personal with 'the Best Tailor in the Country'

Leonard Logsdail, a renowned Savile Row tailor now 75, is relocating his New York shop after 30 years, remaining a singular force in high-end tailoring for elite clientele and costume designers.
fromAnOther
7 months ago

At McQueen, a Brief History of the Buttock

His intention, he stated, was never to reveal the intergluteal cleft - or crack, as we more colloquially put it - but to experiment with attenuated tailoring. "They were never really about the bum," he said in 1996. "They were a technical experiment in how to elongate the torso." Nevertheless, he did christen them bumsters - he also mooned the press a few times in place of the usual polite designer bow, as if to underline the reference.
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