Kilgour has been making bespoke suits since 1882, and its handmade bespoke suits are all created entirely at 8 Savile Row in London. The bespoke service offers an item of clothing which has been tailored uniquely for you from scratch – to your individual body shape, taking into account proportion, balance and posture.
All bespoke items from Kilgour are made to the client’s exact requirements, and the production process is therefore a collaboration between the tailor and the customer. You are involved in the choice of every detail, from the fabric to the buttons, cuffs and linings. The house signature style at Kilgour is a modern English silhouette with a neat structured shoulder and an emphasis on shape through the waist and chest. Essentially, Kilgour makes the quintessential contemporary tailored look, as worn over the years by many style icons, including Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Bryan Ferry, Jude Law and James Bond himself, Daniel Craig.
One tailor oversees the entire process, which involves several specialist craftsmen, from the taking of your measurements to the thousands of stitches required to construct the chest. Each suit takes approximately 80 man hours to produce and a different specialist will make your jacket, your trousers and, if required, your waistcoat.
The entire process takes four to eight weeks, depending on how busy the studio is. At the initial appointment a full set of measurements is taken and choices of cloth and design details are made, and then two to three more fittings are required before the suit is finished.
Each bespoke suit is unique to you alone, be it the house signature single-breasted one-button charcoal grey flannel model or a houndstooth three-piece. Modern bespoke allows you the freedom and flexibility to create exactly what you desire, down to the smallest detail, and at the highest possible level of quality.
Design is the watchword at Kilgour. They take the classic menswear code and interpret it in a contemporary manner.
At Kilgour, under the guidance of Creative Director Carlo Brandelli, the emphasis is on a modern, discreet, purist aesthetic, which prizes texture over colour, and line and proportion over embellishment. In the geometry and architecture of these clothes, there is both British reserve and evidence of an essential global design lexicon. Distilling ideas of abstraction, symmetry and balance, and working in particular with the device of the dot, or circle, Kilgour is not retrospective at all – it treats its glorious past with respect while looking resolutely to the future.
These are clothes engineered to be functional and comfortable. And to look effortlessly chic. Meaning, the man in the Kilgour suit will always be the best-dressed man in the room.
Prices from £3,750 for a two-piece suit.
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