Bespoke tailoring

When it comes to top-drawer tailoring there is nobody quite like Peter Johnston, who has brought classic British style and tailoring to Scotland-true Brit, you might say. Forget Savile Row, visit instead this dapper Scot in the lovely Georgian house from which he and his impeccably groomed wife, Judy, now run the tailoring business, as well as selling luxury goods for men. Immediately, you are in a world of fast cars and sexy speedboats (Johnston collects and displays black-and-white photographs of Formula One racing), a world in which the sartorially sussed will discuss at length the cut of a tweed jacket, a world in which a suave CEO will try on his perfect bespoke suit and place his pocket handkerchief just so. The charming Johnston, once design director at Kilgour and Dunhill menswear, was the first Scot to graduate with a master’s degree in menswear from the Royal College of Art in 1995. Johnston’s designs are sold in six Isetan stores in Japan, and he now has a ready-to-wear label in association with Onward Kashiyama, which has been a major success. 

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