Joshua Kane: British Tailoring’s Enfant Terrible

Photo Credit: Joshua Kane/Bart Pajak

White men may, or may not, jump, but tailors definitely don’t skateboard. It’s not normal to do a fashion interview in a skate park, but then 31-year-old designer

Joshua Kane

, is not normal. He is to British tailoring what Jimi Hendrix was to the guitar. He gives this precise form of craftsmanship a skate punk attitude, mastering, and then free-styling over, techniques and traditions. Creators of bespoke tailoring are traditionally a high priesthood whose names are only known to a small group of cognoscenti. They create their art in small rooms off Savile Row that smell of tweed and chalk.

I just watched Kane do an Ollie on a customized skateboard in a cashmere suit and a fedora: that alone revolutionizes British tailoring, cutting through any preconceived ideas that a modern chap might have about bespoke suits being just for posh dads.

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