You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
Winning was such as confidence boost, and fashion is a lot about confidence.
Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.
Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.
The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed, it's a different kind of elegance, but I'd never call it casual.
I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.
I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't. '
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.