2026 rankings: the best tailors in London, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai. Our 2026 rankings are out. See the rankings
The latest in tailoring and menswear: soft tailoring and the return of the suit, new shops and milestones, fabric mills and wool prices, red-carpet dressing and the business of the houses that make the clothes.
Updated daily · 62 stories
Latest · Retail ·
The shirt and suit brand says tie sales more than tripled over the summer and its sales are now split roughly evenly between formal and casual clothing.
ReadBusiness ·
The 1818 brand returned to New York Fashion Week in September 2026 for the first time since 2018 and says its average customer is now about five years younger.
Business ·
Shareholders tendered about 17.6% of Hugo Boss after its boards called the bid financially inadequate, and Frasers is now reviewing its support for the company's chair.
Retail ·
Six locations are confirmed for early 2027, from Cherry Hill to Boca Raton, after six straight quarters of positive EBITDA, and the chief executive wants 10 a year for five years if they work.
Craft ·
Three of the graduates trained as trouser-makers under the same master at Dege & Skinner, and a coat-maker from Edward Sexton completed his training under Henry Humphries.
Business ·
Six years after a 2020 bankruptcy in which it closed more than 400 stores, the suit retailer and formalwear rental chain says all of its 1,000-plus stores are profitable and it wants to add 500 more over a decade.
Houses ·
The house was the first purely bespoke tailor to open on the street in 50 years, and it says every garment is still cut by hand.
Business ·
Mike Ashley's retail group held about 26% of Hugo Boss when it launched the voluntary public offer, which the German company said was unsolicited.
Houses ·
The London tailor's largest store outside its home city takes over Armani's former Upper East Side space, with tailoring and private consultations on the lower floor.
Fabrics & mills ·
The family-run mill on Lewis employs 38 staff and contracts 58 home-based weavers, and says it grew in 2024/25 even as total Harris Tweed output fell.
Red carpet ·
The gala opened the Costume Institute's Costume Art exhibition, and many men answered the “Fashion Is Art” dress code with reworked eveningwear rather than plain black tie.
Houses ·
The house traced the blue its tailors used for the French emperor, who gave Henry Poole its first royal warrant in 1858, through matching ledgers held by the Italian mill.
Business ·
The German group called 2026 a year of deliberate brand and channel realignment under its CLAIM 5 TOUCHDOWN strategy, with growth expected to return in 2027.
Business ·
Wholesale sales dropped 16% while e-commerce grew 14%, and the British designer brand says full-price sales and North American trade improved over the following holiday quarter.
Fabrics & mills ·
Auctions on 3 and 4 March 2026 lifted the Eastern Market Indicator another 51 cents, while wool testing data showed the season's clip running almost a tenth below the previous year.
Style ·
Catalyst Brands marketing chief Marisa Thalberg says the campaign changes how the 1818 brand tells its story, not the brand itself.
Trade ·
The ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump voided the country-by-country rates that had hit European, British and Indian clothing and fabric, but a new temporary surcharge kept import costs up.
Business ·
The designer joined in May 2021 after J.Crew's bankruptcy and is leaving with immediate effect; no successor has been named.
Retail ·
The store offers fittings and personal styling alongside shirts, suits and casual clothing, and opens about two months after Dunhill's new Middle East flagship in Dubai Mall was reported open.
Fabrics & mills ·
The purchase brings together two Yorkshire fabric makers, and Dormeuil says it will keep Alfred Brown's manufacturing in the UK while growing the brand abroad.
Fabrics & mills ·
The Eastern Market Indicator added 112 cents in a single sale week, the fifth-largest weekly rise on record, taking its gain since early July to about 30%.
Houses ·
The expanded London flagship puts ready-to-wear on the ground floor and bespoke and made-to-measure fittings upstairs, with a walled garden at the back.
Retail ·
John Lewis plans a new tailoring concept on Oxford Street, and M&S says men's formalwear remains a growth category as customers dress up for work.
Craft ·
Tailors link the interest to a turn away from fast fashion and toward hands-on work since the pandemic, as four apprentices received Savile Row diplomas in July.
Trade ·
Every EU country must set up an extended producer responsibility scheme for textiles by April 2028, with fees that can be adjusted for durability and recyclability.
Obituaries ·
The designer, who softened the shape of the men's jacket and dressed Richard Gere in American Gigolo, worked on his collections until his final days.
Trade ·
An extra 25% penalty linked to India's purchases of Russian oil doubled the tariff, leaving Indian garment makers facing far higher US duties than rivals in Vietnam and Bangladesh.
Trade ·
Goods whose existing US duty was already 15% or more pay no extra reciprocal tariff, while European textile makers warned that the details remained unclear.
Business ·
The regulator said Armani's statements on ethics and social responsibility were misleading given conditions found at suppliers and subcontractors; Armani will appeal.
Business ·
The Italian menswear group sold 14.1 million new shares to the Singapore state investor, which had already bought 12.7 million shares on the market.
Business ·
Judges found the company had failed to check a supply chain in which jacket production passed through two intermediaries to Chinese-run workshops.
Houses ·
The house, founded in 1821, took down internal walls so the workroom now forms part of the front of house.
Retail ·
Managing director Dan Ferris says top-end suits are selling well and a three-year plan calls for expanding the store estate quickly, with Manchester and Edinburgh under consideration.
Retail ·
The two-floor store returns the 1818 brand to the Financial District, seven years after its old downtown shop at Liberty and Trinity closed.
Fabrics & mills ·
The islands now count 140 weavers, some of them career changers, and the authority says the industry no longer depends on the US market.
Events ·
France's environmental cost label for clothing, wool traceability and the first use of artificial intelligence at the congress were on the agenda, and the 2026 meeting was set for Dalang, China.
Red carpet ·
Under the “Tailored for You” dress code, the four male co-chairs wore tailoring by Valentino, Wales Bonner, Louis Vuitton and A$AP Rocky's own label, AWGE.
Business ·
The London shirtmaker and suit retailer, founded in 1986, said customers were spending more time in the office, and grew faster abroad than in the UK.
Houses ·
The family-owned house at 10 Savile Row also celebrated chairman Michael Skinner's 90th year and its first royal warrant from King Charles III.
Business ·
The two firms replace KLM and London Super, and the estate says the strategy will keep bespoke tailoring at the center of the street.
Awards ·
The Amsterdam and Paris-based designer takes $195,000 in the first edition of the prize's biennial format, while Südwolle Group, a German worsted yarn spinner, wins the Supply Chain Award.
Trade ·
The new tariff was added on top of existing duties, and a Brooklyn suit maker that buys its wool fabric in Italy and England said it was already paying 25%.
Houses ·
The unlined, lightly built line in cord and heavy cotton sits between the shop's travel jackets and the house's bespoke tailoring on Old Burlington Street.
Awards ·
Tilda Jonathan of London College of Fashion took the Silver Shears and Kasia Hughes of Connock & Lockie the Rising Star award, from 25 finalists.
Events ·
The Fall-Winter 2025 show at the Pavillon Vendôme was the first under the designer named in September 2024 to relaunch the Zegna-run label.
Events ·
Scaffolding and construction traffic would have cut the display from 50 vehicles to 30, and Westminster City Council did not approve a larger event area.
Events ·
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute's first menswear exhibition in more than 20 years, opens on 10 May 2025, five days after the gala.
Craft ·
The three-month course, run by the Savile Row Bespoke Association's training partner, prepares students for cutting, coat-making and trouser-making apprenticeships with member houses.
Business ·
Ken Ohashi stays on as chief executive of Brooks Brothers inside the new group and also takes charge of Eddie Bauer.
Royal & state ·
The December list completed the review of warrants that began when Charles became king, after a first round in May 2024 that included the Jermyn Street shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser.
Business ·
The Dutch suit retailer says it will use the refinancing to open and enlarge stores in its existing 22 countries rather than enter new ones.
Houses ·
The move to an Edwardian building across Piccadilly from Savile Row followed the opening of her second atelier, in Edinburgh, six months earlier.
Retail ·
The New York menswear designer is aiming the Upper East Side shop at older professional customers, with an expanded range of suits and sport coats.
Houses ·
The former Berluti designer replaces Peter Hawkings and will lead all Tom Ford fashion categories, which are run under license by the Ermenegildo Zegna Group.
Obituaries ·
Trained as a cutter in London and a coat-maker in Paris, he led the first tailoring house on Savile Row, presided over the trade's charities and handed the business to his son Simon.
Business ·
Councillors voted four to two against their own planning officers' advice, after more than 100 letters of support from the street's tailors and neighbors.
Houses ·
The Naples house opened a salon at Takashimaya Nihonbashi in spring 2024 and aims to open its own Ginza store within two years, with London due first.
Business ·
The ruling, dated 3 April 2024, found that the unit had not properly checked the workshops that made Armani bags and leather goods under subcontract.
Houses ·
The Grade II listed townhouse opposite the brand's 29 Savile Row store puts bespoke tailoring on the first floor, next to a lounge bar.
Obituaries ·
The Holocaust survivor bought the East Williamsburg factory where he started as a floor boy and turned it into Martin Greenfield Clothiers, which his family still runs.
Red carpet ·
Best actor winner Cillian Murphy wore Atelier Versace, and Colman Domingo wore a custom double-breasted Louis Vuitton tuxedo with flared trousers.
Houses ·
The house founded by Henry Huntsman in 1849 used the anniversary to reopen a members' room above its shop and later took its name into a New York jewelry collaboration.
