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A New York tailor recommended us to Vikram. He came to us by Whatsapp. He wanted a full bodied bow tie and settled on our wide butterfly shape. Off it went shortly thereafter to a California address to meet him at his wedding destination. You are welcome to explore the same with us, day and night - Whatsapp, Text, Facetime if you need it. +61413140994

I have been doing research on a scarf I want to design and it will be a deco reference or early 20th Century setting, an homage to Golden Age of illustrators though it's quite ambitious and it will be laborious. As I often do I started rummaging through Pinterest and I found this wonderful painting by Joseph Leyendecker which I want to use as a core reference and it's so emotive that the first think I thought was "where as all that glamour gone?" . I really don't like the way celebrities and the ultra rich get around these days though to be fair, if I had that much money maybe I would want to look the same, I will most likely never find out. But we are certainly along way from the period depicted here. If you don't know who Leyendecker is, read the blurb below I generated with my chat. 

It has been a labour of love. I am exhausted. I was up till midnight last night and still working on them into the afternoon today. Let us pray they come out well. Each one is unique, each one has its own personality and reason for being. They include travels to Currango, a conversation at Camp Cove with my furniture friend on minimalism, mine and my friends travels to great ski resorts, the winner of our scarf design competition, a new work by Clementine Chambon, my homage to Hachmang’s cafe speedster, a return to old work with the sirens, a chance afternoon light and I stopped for a photograph in Thredbo with homage to Hiroshige, and, finally, some Sumos in Shiga Kogen.

This was our most ambitious design yet in my opinion. The inspiration for the design came when I spotted a scarf in Hermes at the Haneda terminal of Tokyo on my way back to Sydney. It had a series of scenes, some were postcard like, about 34 from memory when I counted them, of places around the world with whimsical line hand sketches, or so it seemed, one can’t know if it is all by computer these days, and it just had a wow factor, and to be honest, Hermes even now, even when I firmly believe our double prints are superior in results, even though our brilliance in colour can often be more vibrant, and our base cloth softer and more supple, still, even then, I bow to Hermes, they are the kings of the silk scarf.

A customer of ours, one of my best in fact, had a terrible health scare and spoke about it on his handle. In dialogue with him he told me to stay on top of my health. But it reminded me of The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, in the sense that you feel empathy for the person but you kind of concurrently are just very happy it isn’t you. In the end, as Clive James often said “nobody gets out of here alive”, yet each of us tries to not think about our own extinction too often because, as Irvin Yalom once wrote, it’s like staring at the sun, and if we look too intently it will blind us.

Now, where do I begin. I spent a few days in the Snowy Mountains this week in a remote part of the Kosciuszko National Park at a place called Currango....

The pleasure of seeing your bow ties find their way to exotic locations be it a wedding on an island to The Metropolitan Opera never fails to amuse me even...

40 years in business in the one location. That’s a good innings. I have known the Tozzi family for a very long time now but about 18 years ago I...

Isn’t there just something about a smiley face that makes you happy ? Even when I leave my local supermarket and the parking monitor says farewell and the smiley face...

There are few things more chic than a silk scarf - they can be tied a myriad of ways, worn on the body, worn around the neck, worn as a head covering, worn, as I do sometimes, as a face mask in the snow. 

It's one of the easiest bow ties to tie, and once you line up those diamonds it is a wonderful sign of a hand tied bow tie with great lineage and especially with reference to James Bond. See our black tie selection for our diamond points including this one we made for Matt Spaiser, the writer behind Bond Suits. 

Against my Japanese craftsmen counterparts, as an Australian visiting Japan I feel like a bull in a china shop. They are meticulous and take pride in their work that surpasses anything I have seen elsewhere, and that includes my beloved Italians, who I find creative, inspirational and erudite in the realm of fabrics and fabrication. My tour to Japan was to document artisans, open up supplies to Japanese Yuzen silk, and to have a ski at the end. I did all things successfully.