Savile Row Was Dying. Here's How It Was Saved

Savile Row Was Dying. Here's How It Was Saved A decade ago, the average tailor on Savile Row was sixty years old, and the trade was running out of apprentices to replace them. Two hundred miles south, Naples faced the same problem. This is the story of how two institutions, on two different continents, saw the collapse coming and moved before it was too late. In two thousand and seven, sixteen Savile Row houses formed an association and made something the trade had resisted for two centuries mandatory: every member house now has to employ a salaried apprentice, at all times. Seven years earlier in Naples, Kiton founder Ciro Paone built his own tailoring school inside his workshops, training roughly one hundred tailors in its first nineteen years. Both bets paid off. Savile Row's average tailor age has fallen from sixty to forty, and apprenticeship applications are surging. This isn't the story of the whole industry, though. Reporting from twenty twenty five still shows a wider shortage of skilled artisans across Italian fashion manufacturing. This is the story of the two places that got ahead of it. #savilerow #kiton #bespoketailoring #mensfashion #luxurymenswear #tailoring #menswear #neapolitantailoring #luxurysuits #tailoringapprenticeship #italiantailoring #menswearhistory 1. Savile Row: Tailoring a bespoke future - Drapers https://www.drapersonline.com/insight... 2. Apprentices breathe new life into historic Savile Row - AFP/France24 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news... 3. SRBA Apprentice Scheme - Savile Row Bespoke https://www.savilerowbespoke.com/info... 4. Savile Row tailoring - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savile_... 5. Kiton's High-tailoring Academy https://us.kiton.com/pages/tailoring-...