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Move over Brioni, James Bond’s tailor is coming to town. Fifty years after the first Bond film, the tailoring brand that made every suit for Sir Sean Connery, pictured, as 007 has relaunched.
Anthony Sinclair, now based in Sackville Street, has hired adviser Tanza Partners to raise cash for a roll-out. The tailoring brand, which made Bond’s suits for all the films from Dr No in 1962 to Diamonds Are Forever in 1971, plans to raise money via the Government’s new Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Tanza has been tasked with raising an initial £150,000, with further funding rounds later. Savile Row businessman David Mason owns the rights to the name and is working with Richard Paine, who was the apprentice at Anthony Sinclair in the 1960s and made many of the James Bond suits.
The suits were named the Conduit Cut after Anthony Sinclair’s first tailoring shop in Conduit Street. Sinclair died in 1982 and Paine took over but the brand has been dormant for five years.