Style
The English Are Coming for Your Closet
Patrick Grant, owner of Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons, is keeping British style alive and well, one heritage brand at a time.
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It’s the first break of a whirlwind, five-day business trip for Patrick Grant, the 44-year-old owner of Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons, and he wants to talk about buttons. Specifically, how his jacket doesn’t have any sewn onto the cuff, unlike the traditional British bespoke suit, which has two working buttons and two dummies at the end of each sleeve.
“There’s just no need,” he says as he lays a napkin in his lap and tucks into an Ugly Burger at the National, Geoffrey Zakarian’s restaurant inside New York’s Benjamin Hotel. “It’s extraneous stuff that doesn’t mean anything anymore.”