Jeremy hackett biography death

Sign up to our free newsletter and be the first to know about the latest fashion, travel and lifestyle happenings, as well as exclusive reader events and offers. Jeremy Hackett had his first bespoke suit made for his first Holy Communion. I was a very precocious child. How time has flown. This year, not only did Hackett the man turn 70, but the company he co-created with his business partner, Ashley Lloyd-Jennings, turned Hackett, a four-storey, made-to-measure and bespoke Savile Row store that returned the brand to its tailoring-oriented origins.

Demand soon started to outstrip supply. Not long after we got going, I went to a market where there was this rail of tweed jackets.

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Among them I spotted a Hackett. It was much more expensive than all the others, so I asked the guy why. Hackett was refined, aristocratic — a brand that rode the Sloane Ranger wave of the late s, making referential nods to polo and rowing, classic cars and country estates. Somehow, though, they imagine me sitting there in a smoking jacket, tartan trousers and monogrammed velvet slippers.