Maverick London tailor John Pearse is still cutting suits for artists, actors, the rock'n'roll crowd, and their grandchildren.
, a tailor shop full of swirly peacock feather prints and polka dots. It’s a place where regulars can have their threadbare clothing repaired, and try on tangerine corduroy jackets, or flowery shirts that look as if they were made from old-fashioned upholstery fabric.Pearse did all that when he was still a teenager and living in north London with a group of friends . It was a rock ’n’ roll start to life, but it wasn’t nearly exciting enough for Pearse.
The arty, socialite and music crowds still flock to his tailor shop on Meard Street in Soho, and so do their children and grandchildren.has clothing made there, as do some of the younger Niarchoses and Elkanns. Pearse remains close to Georg Baselitz’s children and grandchildren. “I’m producing one-offs — that’s the beauty of what I do. I’m not interested in fashion whatsoever. Fashion is all about money, and you’ve got to keep selling it. Here, stuff can hang around for as long as it hangs around until somebody ‘gets’ it” and brings it to life, he said.
“Mummy would make me a pair of trousers, say, in orange. And I’d tell her, ‘I’m not wearing that.’ Then I would tell her what I wanted, and how it should be made and how I wanted to look. I think I was doing that from around the age of 5,” he said with a laugh. That’s just the tailoring. Some of the shirts, too, are made from deadstock in trippy prints and velvety textures that recall his Granny days. Friends bring him bolts of cloth and he gets creative. He also does bib fronts, Mexican wedding shirts, sporty woven cotton styles, and others with polka dots.
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