By: Bairbre Power, 1 April 2023
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Style notes: Savile Row’s first tailored LBD, fun feathers and a bridalwear sample sale not to be missed
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Savile Row is the home of British heritage tailoring, and since her arrival in this hallowed turf, Ruby Slevin of Banshee of Savile Row has been charting new territories. Her latest push is for the little black dress wrapped around the slick elegance of a great tuxedo.
Made from worsted wool with a silk lapel, the tuxedo dress provides a little preview of Slevin’s upcoming new collection, titled ‘Bring Sexy Back’.
“I felt that Savile Row needed to be disrupted with a little black dress.” says Slevin, a graduate of the Grafton Academy. “There has never been a little black dress on Savile Row, and I just thought it was fun and sexy and an alternative way of wearing tailoring.”
“What I love is that it is part of the Banshee’s DNA, so you can wear it as a cocktail dress, wear it as a suit, wear it with jeans, it is sustainable and does not just serve one purpose in your wardrobe.”
Breaking the tailoring glass ceiling, so to speak, Slevin says: “I thought a beautiful chic, black, understated dress was the first way to go. I’ve actually done another one in purple pinstripe, and it can be done in velvet, and I can see it in loads of different fabrics.”
The tuxedo dress is made to measure and costs €2,150. With a keen eye on versatile dressing, Slevin has mixed it up. For her new-season shoot, she teamed the dress with wide-legged tuxedo trousers (€915), worn open, like a jacket, over a white linen shirt with grandfather collar (€430) and styles with my myfrkl.com jewellery from Angela Scanlon, who is a fan of the brand.
For her own publicity shots, Slevin styled the tuxedo dress over jeans to show yet again the many ways it can be worn.
“I think the silhouette would be fab in velvet and in a tailored linen look as opposed to linen always being designed in a more loose way.”
Slevin’s studio is at number 13 Savile Row. She is home regularly for bespoke fittings at the Arts Club on Fitzwilliam Street, and she is hosting a trunk show there from April 19-21.
It’s a nice opportunity to get some ideas for bespoke, made-to-measure pieces, especially for those who want to downsize their wardrobes to items you really love and want to wear all the time.
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