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🗓️ 23 January 2020
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John Kent is the British tailor and co-founder of “Kent and Haste” on London’s notorious Savile Row.
Kent has made clothes for many of the royal family including The Queen, Prince Charles and, Prince Philip and this has earned him a Royal Warrant for his services to the crown
He is responsible for dressing the 50 Billion Dollar Man, Dan Pena who it is rumoured to have spent over 1 million pounds on suits with John.
And John Kent is credited to have dressed some of the biggest names in the business including Sean Connery, John Hurt, Bert Lancaster, and Bing Crosby to name but a few.
JOHN KENT:
Tailor: https://www.kenthaste.co.uk/
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0:00.0 | Let's just get this straight. I'm a tradesman and I'm really good at it. I used to make for Gene |
0:09.4 | Barry, you remember, the name of the game, Birxlawlaw I made for bin Crosby John Hurt was |
0:15.1 | through my own company he was a lovely man and I made clothes for his right |
0:20.4 | High and highness the Duke of Edinburgh. |
0:28.0 | People come from all over the world still to have suits made. You're giving them a service. |
0:29.4 | Hopefully they like you, otherwise you wouldn't, believe me, |
0:32.0 | you wouldn't be working from even if you were good. |
0:36.0 | Tell me about Dampania. |
0:38.0 | So he finds out and he says, I'd like to come in and order some suits they didn't know and he's gone well |
0:46.2 | I'll have them and it was like 20 I mean I made him I don't know how many suits I lost |
0:52.1 | count it's cloth I don't know how many suits I lost count. |
0:54.0 | It's cloth, it's not sheep metal and it moves around. |
0:58.0 | And if you make a mistake, if something doesn't fit, |
1:02.0 | don't blame it on anybody else, I'm the tailor is given the |
1:05.3 | warranty, not some guy who works in my workshop who made them. |
1:09.4 | He doesn't know where the hell the tailor is? |
1:12.0 | No, no, no, no. You just say I'm ever so sorry so I've made a mistake and I'll put it right and that's fine. |
1:18.1 | I think to say you know where'd you get your clothes mate? Sav That, just that name, isn't that? |
1:23.4 | Savo or row. |
1:24.4 | It's precise, isn't it? |
1:28.9 | It must be. The Oh, And so So, Oh, And you're |
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