Kilgour (British, founded in 1880)
Kilgour is one of Britain's oldest and most respected men's tailors on the famous Savile Row street in London. For over 140 years Kilgour Tailoring has been creating the finest bespoke and ready to wear suits, menswear and accessories for elegant dressers such as Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, and in more recent times, for actors Jude Law and Daniel Craig, designer Karl Lagerfeld, architect David Adjaye and graphic designer Peter Saville.
The company was founded in 1880 as T & F French. It was established on Piccadilly, and with an exclusive London based clientele, the business merged with A.H. KILGOUR in 1923 to form Kilgour & French. In 1925, Fred and Louis STANBURY joined the company. They introduced an elegance of cut that has remained the foundation of the house style to our days. Thus in 1937, the business changed its name to Kilgour, French and Stanbury. The brand became Kilgour in 2003 under the stewardship of Carlo BRANDELLI, who injected a modern spirit into the traditional Savile Row artisanal practices of the house. He used his own background as a contemporary fashion designer to fuse two different design codes to create the street’s first genuinely modern aesthetic.