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| | Savile Row Shake-Up: Page 2 | Robb Report |
 | | Smith downplays the move by Barneys, saying Huntsman wanted greater distribution control of its ready-made line, which is made on Savile Row and priced in the $5,000 range, or about a third of the price of the company’s bespoke suits. |
 | | For McQueen, aligning his name with one of the few remaining bespoke tailors on Savile Row allows him to enter the menswear market and take advantage of the fact that long and lean British-inspired suits are once again emerging as a major trend for fall 2002. |
 | | Another Savile Row suitmaker, Kilgour French Stanbury, like many of its peers, has had to compensate for a sales slump related to terrorism, recession, and changing values, by introducing what the company calls “Shanghai bespoke”; suits, lower-priced suits that are measured in London but made in China. |
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