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Hardy Amies

Dressmaker to the Queen, and the first to put men's ready to wear on a catwalk.

1946
Since 1946

A house of style.

Founded by Sir Hardy Amies.

Hardy Amies founded his house on Savile Row in 1946, at No. 14.
The Story

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I

In 1955 Queen Elizabeth II appointed him one of her official dressmakers.

II

In 1961 he staged the first men's ready to wear catwalk shows, at the Savoy Hotel in London.

III

Stanley Kubrick commissioned him to design the costumes for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

IV

He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1989.

The Signature

Royal dressmaking and the menswear catwalk

A spotlight finds the catwalk.

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