November 28, 2005
san francisco
I'm in London today, going back home tomorrow (Thank God).
Interesting: The territory that English Cut is growing the fastest seems to be our San Francisco market. Traditionally, New York is the biggest US market for Savile Row, but we seem to have gotten this West Coast selling-virus started.
Yes, the internet changes everything. I suppose what thrills me the most about it is being able to create one's own business model so easily, and not have to slavishly follow what the competition is doing (and has been doing, for the last two hundred years).
English Cut operates on Savile Row, but we don't have our own shop there. Instead we rent space in other people's shops on a per-use basis (this is actually a very common practice among the tailors- a tailor who makes for the Sultan of Brunei doesn't have his own shop, either). We've never intended to have our own shop. A permanent address on Savile Row will set you back a couple of hundred thousand dollars per year. A permanent weblog address will set you back a couple of hundred dollars' worth of bandwidth per year.
Which one would you rather have?
Posted by hugh macleod at November 28, 2005 7:30 AM | TrackBackwe love ourselves a dapper suit here in S.F.
;o)
Posted by: Brian at November 28, 2005 8:53 AMSavielle Row is the new 'black' in SF ;)
Posted by: Thomas at November 28, 2005 4:29 PMSo when are you guys coming out to SF?
Bet we could dig up enough GV/EC readers out here to throw some sort of party (or at least get thrown out of some sort of bar).
Posted by: frosty at November 28, 2005 5:01 PMI was going to post a link to a photo of Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield getting measured by Thomas but it turns out Stewart has accidentally deleted all his photos. He did look suave though. Funny how getting a Savile Row suit has gotten on the "stuff I'll buy when I sell my startup" list.
Posted by: Peter Orosz at November 28, 2005 10:40 PM