I LOVE THE BRITISH WRITER, ACTOR AND COMEDIAN STEPHEN FRY WHO IS APPEARING AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ON THE 27th AND 28th JULY. I LOVE HIS STYLE AND WIT, HIS SLIGHTLY QUIRKY DRESS SENSE, HIS PANACHE AND INDIVIDUALITY.
I also love the BBC quiz programme QI that he chairs which is currently running on the ABC [...]
HAND ENGRAVING IS ANOTHER CRAFT THAT IS SIMILAR TO BESPOKE TAILORING IN THAT, AS THE YEARS GO BY, THERE ARE FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE WHO ARE BLESSED WITH THE SKILLS TO PRODUCE THE HIGH QUALITY OF WORK REQUIRED.
Sydney is fortunate therefore to be the home of John Thompson, one of the very few Master Hand [...]
Born in 1949 and christened John Handel Lawson Cutler, I am the fourth generation of my family to take up the tailor's shears. I joined the family business straight from school at 16 years of age. Even before then I had always shown a very keen interest in bespoke tailoring and shirt making.