To get to Tony Phillips’ studio you have to walk into Borovicks Fabrics, Soho’s oldest fabric store, and up a short flight of stairs to where Tony’s studio is located on the first floor above Berwick Street. I get to wondering about the countless number of people who’ve taken the same steps up to be measured by Tony. I’m now amongst that number (including famous faces and local personalities which Tony name drops casually during our interview). I’m looking forward to it… someone with a 50 year (plus) history tailoring in Soho will surely have one hell of a story to tell…

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50 Years a tailor in Soho

Tony’s story as a tailor in Soho doesn’t begin on Berwick Street, despite it feeling as though he’s part of the street’s fabric. He started at Noel Street in 1969, before moving to here four years ago. “I’ll be honest with you, I was in the basement. A lot of people didn’t even know me then, you know, and people would come down and say, ‘Hey, have you seen the new shop open?’ I’d say, ‘no, no, no, tell me about it. Menswear?’ because I’ll go down there and talk to them and see if I can get some work, you know. But I was tucked away.”

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