Documentary
Savile Row
Monday 04 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4
1/3 - Love Thy Neighbour
Not much has ruffled the starched collars and pinstriped suits of London's Savile Row over the past 100 years. But off-the-peg upstart Abercrombie & Fitch (or the "unacceptable face, abs and pecs of modern retail", as narrator Paul McGann puts it) has recently set up shop alongside the elite tailors in Mayfair, causing a few of them to fall on their pinking shears in horror. "These kids pay £30 for a T-shirt with the shop's name on it!" sneers one, although it's not clear whether it's the price, the style of garment or the blatant advertising that appals him most. This delicious three-parter is a window on a bespoke world that most of us would never normally see. Suit you, sir.
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