亨利·普尔(Henry Poole&Co.)被称为萨维尔街(Savile Row)的创始裁缝。两个多世纪以来,亨利·普尔(Henry Poole&Co.)一直为世界上最重要的男女穿着。他们的定制工艺在一套完整的账本中经过几代人的精心记录,服装专家詹姆斯·舍伍德(James Sherwood)被授予了特别权限。这个引人入胜的故事讲述了普尔最丰富多彩的人物的故事,将舍伍德对60位标志性客户的研究提炼出来。被归类为皇帝和王公、国王和王后、政治家和政治家、金融家和百万富翁、艺术家和表演者,或英雄和恶棍,每个客户都有其签名服装的详细资料。从艺术家和作家,如亨利·德·图卢兹·劳特里克(Henri de Toulouse Lautrec)和威尔基·柯林斯(Wilkie Collins),到金融家J。P摩根和费迪南德·德·罗斯柴尔德男爵,这本书提供了一个独特的窗口,可以看到十九世纪和二十世纪公共生活的核心。
Known as the founding tailor of Savile Row, Henry Poole & Co. has dressed the world’s most important men and women for over two centuries. Their craft of bespoke tailoring was meticulously documented through the generations in a complete set of ledgers, to which sartorial expert James Sherwood has been granted special access. Telling the story of Poole’s most colorful characters, this fascinating account distills Sherwood’s research into sixty iconic customers. Categorized as Emperors and Maharajas, Kings and Queens, Statesmen and Politicians, Financiers and Millionaires, Artists and Performers, or Heroes and Villains, each client is profiled with details of their signature garment. From artists and writers, such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Wilkie Collins, to financiers J. P. Morgan and Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, this book offers a unique window into an establishment at the very heart of nineteenth- and twentieth-century public life.
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