Dege & Skinner, the family-owned tailor at 10 Savile Row, marked its 160th year in 2025 with a limited collection of anniversary suiting and its first house shirting fabrics. The house announced the collection on 23 April 2025. The anniversary coincided with the 90th year of its chairman, Michael Skinner.
The suiting was woven in England by Marton Mills in Yorkshire. It comes in four colorways, named Rust, Light Blue, Denim Blue and Dark Green, all in a basket weave of 100 percent wool worsted at 11/12oz, with a navy warp running through each one. The house suggests them for jackets, suits and trousers.
The three shirting designs are the first in the house collection. Head shirt cutter Tom Bradbury and apprentice Xanthe Godwin chose them in Italy from the Thomas Mason archive, held by Albini Group, taking inspiration from a ledger dated 1865, the year Dege was founded. Both collections can be ordered at 10 Savile Row and at the house's trunk shows in Britain and abroad.
“2025 is a major milestone in the company history of Dege & Skinner.”
William Skinner, managing director of Dege & Skinner
From Grafton Street to Savile Row
The business was founded in 1865 as J. Dege by Jacob Dege at Grafton House on Grafton Street in London. It moved to 10 Savile Row in 1989 and has traded as Dege & Skinner since March 2000. Michael Skinner joined in 1953 and became managing director in 1970. His son William, the fifth generation of the family in the business, has been managing director since 2001. In 1994 the house launched a bespoke shirt service; the Savile Row Bespoke Association describes it as the street's only in-house bespoke shirtmaker. Nicholas De'Ath, previously head cutter, was appointed creative director in 2025.
Military and ceremonial dress remains a large part of the work. In December 2024 King Charles III granted the house a royal warrant for the uniforms of The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. For the film Lee, De'Ath, then head cutter, and cutter Alex Hills made a replica of the US Class A tunic worn by the photographer Lee Miller, for Kate Winslet to wear in the title role; the original had been made on Savile Row by Kilgour, French & Stanbury in 1943.
Apprentices and new markets
The house employs four apprentices across cutting, coat-making and shirt-cutting, according to the Savile Row Bespoke Association, which Dege & Skinner helped to found in 2004. William Skinner told AFP in September 2025 that a fifth would start that month, the most the firm had ever had at once, and that all were women. He also credited the team at No. 10 for the firm's expansion into markets including Singapore and Malaysia.
What it means for buyers
For clients, the anniversary is a practical offer: a small run of English-woven worsted suitable for year-round suits and odd jackets, and shirting that can be paired with it in the same building. At 11/12oz, the worsted is a mid-weight fabric. Our guides to suit fabrics and worsted vs woolen explain what those terms mean, and Jermyn Street shirtmakers covers bespoke shirts in London.
