Nocturne District, London
The Anatomy
of a Suit
A jacket is fifteen pieces of cloth, an argument about shoulders, and eighty-four hours of somebody’s attention. We draft ours around one body — yours — and we will happily show you every seam.
01 — Anatomy
Fifteen pieces, in the order they meet
Scroll and the jacket comes apart. Every component is drawn from our own block: what it’s cut from, how far it sits from the next piece, and how long it takes at the bench.
02 — Cloth
Choose the cloth, and the jacket follows
Weight, weave and finish decide how a jacket hangs long before anyone picks up shears. Change anything below and the cloth is re-woven on screen at forty times life size — and the plate above changes with it.
Specification
DraftCloth, magnified
Twill 2/1What you get
03 — Collection
Four house blocks
Each one is a different argument about the shoulder. Any of them can be cut in any cloth in the bunch; the hours are what they are.
The house
Fourteen benches, one flight up
We are a small house. Fourteen cutters and tailors, a cutting room that smells of chalk and steam, and a rule that whoever cuts your jacket is the person who fits it. Nothing goes out that the cutter hasn’t had on their own hands.
That’s slower than the alternative, and it’s the reason a jacket takes eighty-four hours instead of eight. It’s also why we can take a coat back apart five years from now and put it right.
— Ada Meyrick, head cutter
04 — Fitting
Book a fitting
Rough measurements are enough to start — the block adapts as you type, and we confirm everything by hand at the first appointment.