#patrickgrant

[nomanwalksalone]

BOOK REVIEW: PATRICK GRANT’S ORIGINAL MAN

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Any shop that’s had a nameplate on London’s Savile Row or its neighboring tailoring streets (Old Burlington Street, Conduit Street, Clifford Street and the like) for more than a few decades has acquired a variety of different identities. Shop signs added extra names as tailors, the historical residents of that neighborhood, merged with other firms or simply bought the goodwill and customer list of a firm that was closing. If anything, this trend ought to accelerate now that rents in London’s West End continue to increase. 

Norton & Sons, which Original Man’s author Patrick Grant acquired after graduating from business school, is a case in point: a respected tailor’s shop that had weathered the rise of casual clothing and ready-to-wear in the 1980s and 1990s. The author Richard Walker noted in 1987’s Savile Row that the firm’s owners of the time had even tried to re-orient it to look like a cozy Hamptons shop rather than what we now expect a tailor’s shop to look like. Fast forward several decades and an owner or two: Grant saw an ad for the shop being up for sale, bought it, and saved it from closing. He also wisely played on one of Norton’s hidden identities, one of the shops it had absorbed. Grant launched an expensive, high-profile and fashion-forward clothing line using the name of E. Tautz, a tailor famous prior to its acquisition by Norton. What exactly it was famous for doesn’t really have actual relevance to its current incarnation. Tautz was one of the dozens of West End clothiers whom Winston Churchill patronized. The reason Churchill patronized so many is because he famously hated to pay them, and so would move to different tailors, shirtmakers or shoemakers after using up his credit. 

Just as the association with Churchill elevates Tautz’s profile, Tautz’s association with Norton & Sons no doubt helps keep the latter afloat. The new Tautz has (or had, I haven’t followed it closely in some time) a carefully select distribution in chic specialty stores around the world, rigorously odd designs, UK manufacturing that seems idiosyncratically idealistic in this age, a niftily retro fox logo, and punishingly high prices, all of which garner it attention, with perhaps a mention of its London custom tailor parent Norton, in international fashion media.

One of Tautz’s more interesting, affordable and palatable creations is Original Man: The Tautz Compendium of Less Ordinary Gentlemen. I’ve had my eyeballs, to say nothing of my fingers, burned reading what usually passes for books on style icons. So I came to this book warily. Fortunately, while few of the icons will shock (the book ends with Prince Charles, for Pete’s sake), it profiles a great many of them. Thus, the reader can choose to flip past profiles of well-trodden style icons like Gianni Agnelli, Marcello Mastroianni and Churchill himself for engaging quick bursts of text on hard to kill war hero Adrian Carton di Wiart, German leader Helmut Schmidt or the architect Walter Gropius. The reader will realize that the gentlemen this book profiles are not just selected for their dress sense, which gives the book more than a single dimension – and no doubt explains the inclusion of Ozzy Osbourne, George Orwell and Federico Fellini, among others. And Original Man does well even by those gentlemen we expect with heavy heart to see named in a style-focused set of profiles.

It is, in point of fact, an ideal breakfast book: perfect to flip through and read a several page profile while sipping that morning coffee before the dash to work. Brief as its writeups are, we must willingly suspend our knowledge of any greater context about subjects in order to fully enjoy it, forgetting some of the less sanguine, more bloody or bloody-minded acts certain were responsible for. I found it diverting enough to make that suspension, despite my concerns about our forgetful age. We all need a momentary diversion, and Original Man is original enough to provide many.

[chinabambi]

Invest & protect 😷💖🌈😷🛍 Can everyone look at investing in a couple of washable fabric face masks please (doesn’t have to be mine - support small) which you can wash every day rather than buying a disposable 1 every day. I keep seeing these littered about 😖 Disposable ones will cost you more money and they are only adding to landfill and hurting our environment. A fabric face mask will last a long time, feels more comfortable and can be used not only for this pandemic but onwards for home DIY / sickness / when out and about and needing to feel protected. Stay safe, support a small business, help the planet and look fab all at the same time. Thank you! ✨🌈😷⭐️ At this moment.. I have made 966 face masks which are being used all over the world! 🤗 It feels so good to be able to provide support to everyone during this time. ⭐️😷🌈✨ Face Masks - Adult & Kid sizes - In my shop @china_bambi 🛍 Handmade using two layers of fabric with an inner interfacing mesh middle and a soft breathable inner fabric for comfort. Elastic fastening over ears. Washable too! ✨⭐️ Be safe everyone. Thank you. 🌈👏🏻 #facemasks #fashionfacemasks #starwarsfacemask #etsyseller #fashionmask #stayhome #savelives #supportsmall #etsysellersofig #lockdown #fashionfacemask #coronavirus #starwarsmask #patrickgrantism #patrickgrant #facemask #shopsmall #etsy #staysafe #shoplocal #cheltenham #thegreatbritishsewingbee #facemask #etsyshop #etsysellersofinstagram #sewingbee #etsysellers #handmade #lockdownlife #bigcommunitysew #janomeisewlation (at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFbZDX0pLKx/?igshid=19xtkht1tucan

[budaallmusic]

East Coast – East Coast #EncounterRecords 1973 🇺🇸 US Alto Saxophone – #JamesWheeler Bass – #MelvinWhay Design – #SteveMalinchoc Keyboards – #GregoryJohnson Leader, Drums – #LarryBlackmon Percussion – #MichaelHarris Photography By – #ChuckStewart Producer – Larry Clement Trombone – #PatrickGrant Vocals – #GwenGuthrie https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPJ5bWgCcq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kcf70vt2onna

[thingybobs]

To celebrate the return of my favourite ever programme I thought I would share this photo of me and Patrick Grant 😁 (sshh don’t tell anyone he’s made of cardboard! 🤫😉) Anyone else looking forward to the Great British Sewing Bee? . . . . . #dowhatyoulove #etsy #etsyseller #etsyshop #makersgonnamake #sewistsofinstagram #shopsmall #shopsmallchangehabits #smallbusiness #workathomemum #greatbritishsewingbee #sewingbee #patrickgrant #cardboardpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/Btx7e-KFMQ7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jws8p0bvj49i

[tyronesee]

Picks from E.Tautz Fall/Winter 2017 Collection

[brigidcoady]

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Stay suited! Great British Sewing Bee fan girling. . . #morningcommute #greatbritishsewingbee #patrickgrant #suited #leedsuni #materialscience #engineering #coronavirus #covid19 #London (at Westminster) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_UJWDAgtpS/?igshid=1pia6pr87zw4r

[amhikolhapurkar-blog]

#InternationalStrangeMusicDay was created by #PatrickGrant, a #NewYorkCity musician. The premise is simple: to get people to play and listen to types of #music they have never experienced before. The ‘strange’ part can mean either #unfamiliar or #bizarre – the choice is entirely yours. Patrick believes broadening people’s #musical spectrums can also change the way we look at other aspects of life – his #mantra is ‘listening without #prejudice’. This growing movement has concerts, a record #label and strong support from summer schools, where it is appreciated as a great way to stimulate young minds. Have you ever wanted to combine a tight #WonderWoman costume, a frozen turkey drumstick and an inflatable wildebeest into a percussion concert? International Strange #MusicDay gives you the perfect excuse. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm29hLYhsVx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dpgt2qilduqr

[thetweedpig]

HOW TO GET (WELL) DRESSED - PATRICK GRANT http://bit.ly/2qTp16q #BestDressed #Clothes #ETautz #MadeinUK #MrPorter #NortonandSons #PatrickGrant #TheTweedPig @ETautz @TheTweedPig @MRPORTERLIVE @etautz @mrporterlive @thetweedpig

[menswearlook]

E. Tautz SS14

[chinabambi]

😷💖🌈😷🛍 Can everyone look at investing in a couple of fabric face masks which you can wash every day rather than buying a disposable 1 every day. Disposable ones will cost you more money and they are only adding to landfill and hurting our environment. A fabric face mask will last a long time and can be used not only for this pandemic but onwards for home DIY / sickness / when out and about and needing to feel protected. Stay safe, support a small business, help the planet and look fab all at the same time. Thank you! ✨🌈😷⭐️ At this moment.. I have made 180 face masks which are being used all over the world! 🤗 It feels so good to be able to provide support to everyone during this time. ⭐️😷🌈✨ Face Masks - Adult & Kid sizes - In my shop @china_bambi 🛍 Handmade using two layers of fabric with an inner interfacing mesh middle and a soft breathable inner fabric for comfort. Elastic fastening over ears. Washable too! ✨⭐️ Be safe everyone. Thank you. 🌈👏🏻 #facemasks #fashionfacemasks #starwarsfacemask #etsyseller #fashionmask #stayhome #savelives #supportsmall #etsysellersofig #lockdown #fashionfacemask #coronavirus #starwarsmask #patrickgrantism #patrickgrant #facemask #shopsmall #etsy #staysafe #shoplocal #cheltenham #thegreatbritishsewingbee #facemask #etsyshop #etsysellersofinstagram #sewingbee #etsysellers #handmade #junemotm20 #bigcommunitysew #janomeisewlation (at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTsEqOpixv/?igshid=jgk0vpj0sasl

[thesussexhomemaker]

This is the dress I made myself for last years @handmadefair I actually said to Patrick Grant 'I made this dress myself' sounded dumb like Baby in Dirty Dancing 'I carried a watermelon' I'm sure he was impressed though 😂😂♥️#lastyear #handmade #handmadedress #makeyourownclothes #patrickgrant #hmf #icarriedawatermelon #funny #proud #unique #oneofakind #memories (at The Sussex Homemaker)

[rolexwhisky]

#instadram for tonight is this #limitededition AnCnoc bottled at 54% ABV, matured in Spanish and American oak, and has been bottled in its most natural form, neither chill-filtered nor colored. It’s the dark chocolate notes on here that I love, and @ancnoc_whisky is one of those #whiskys that everyone should be drinking. Blas, Gaelic for ‘taste’, has was created in partnership with Scottish fashion designer Patrick Grant. Thanks @whiskychick for this great bottle, you know I am sucker for the higher ABV #scotchwhisky and this one drinks amazing. #scotchporn #scotchwhisky #whisky . . . . . . #fridaynightlights #instapic #whiskygram #instawhisky #whiskytime #whiskytasting #singlemalt #highlandwhisky #highlandsinglemalt #cheers #singlemaltscotch #instalike #singlemaltscotchwhisky #fridayvibes #patrickgrant #pictureoftheday #scotch #bestdramihad #thegoodlife (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3yN4rcjZOJ/?igshid=1ptzpx5edhbn6

[lajoliemaisonette]

style icon Patrick Grant drinking AnCoc whisky #PatrickGrant #AncocWhisky #Menssuit #Suitedandbooted https://ift.tt/2XV7iHl

[tyronesee]

E. Tautz Core Torquay Whipcord Jacket in Army Green

[eastcoastrocker]

Patrick Grant Paints Eclectic Picture with Album 'A Sequence of Waves'

#PatrickGrant Paints an Eclectic Picture with Instrumental Album #ASequenceofWaves @tiltedaxes

By JOHN DALY

Patrick Grant’s album, A Sequence of Waves is appropriately titled as the listener is bombarded with all types of soundwaves for a series of 13 songs.

It is hardly rock. It’s not new wave, nor is it electro or hip-hop or any particular style of music. It is a collection of symphonic, wordless songs that convey a range of emotion packed neatly into a convenient delivery. And, oddly,…

[holdhard]

You Can’t Hurry Craft – Patrick Grant Runs His Very Now Businesses with Traditional Values. Patrick Grant celebrates 10 years at the helm of Norton & Sons today.