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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.

There is something refreshing about the fact that you can come to our website each week and see something brand new, something circled back upon, something that's one off. And, for me anyway, it's a nice feeling that we are rarely if ever flat or devoid of something new to pick at. It's my job to entertain you, it's not just black bow ties we do, even if that's what we are most revered for, we now have so much more to offer you from silk scarves to silk eye shades, merino wool t shirts, evening shirts, neck ties.... and the list goes on. 

There are many cufflinks out there so we never wanted to add to the generic stock of them. With the new range we were just hoping to add “our thing”...

By now many of you who have reached our site have most probably followed our Instagram and if you have, you’d have seen my journey to Japan and the interviews...

Sometimes I am not even sure how my own brain is working. I was having a short break on the mountain after my time in Tokomachi when I skied past...