29 Facts About Timothy Everest

Timothy Charles Peto Everest was born on March 1961 and is a Welsh tailor and fashion designer.

Timothy Everest moved to London in his early twenties to work with the Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter.

Timothy Everest then became one of the leaders of the New Bespoke Movement, which brought designer attitudes to the traditional skills of Savile Row tailoring.

In 2017 Timothy Everest announced he would leave the company.

Timothy Everest was born in Southampton but brought up in Haverford West; most of his family remain in the area of Wales.

Timothy Everest had aspired to become a race car driver.

Timothy Everest answered an advertisement placed in the London Evening Standard, in 1982, by Tommy Nutter: "Boy wanted in Savile Row".

Timothy Everest pestered Nutter for weeks, until he was given the job.

Timothy Everest met his future wife Catherine at this time, while she was working with Nutter.

In 1986, after nearly five years as Nutter's apprentice, Timothy Everest was persuaded to move on to work for Malcolm Levene.

Timothy Everest had become disillusioned with Savile Row, particularly with its lack of appreciation for Nutter's more modern approach.

Timothy Everest found that working with Levene, a small menswear retailer based away from Savile Row, on Chiltern Street, provided a welcome change.

Timothy Everest recognised a shift in perception of the male fashion industry; men had become more label conscious.

Timothy Everest opened his first premises in 1989; in Princelet Street, Spitalfields, just outside the City of London, in the East End.

Timothy Everest dressed Tom Cruise for the 1996 film Mission: Impossible.

Cruise liked the suits so much that he kept them, and commissioned Timothy Everest to make him some more.

Timothy Everest became one of the "Cool Britannia" tailoring generation of the mid-1990s, identified by James Sherwood as having begun with the publication of Vanity Fair's "Cool Britania" issue in 1997.

Timothy Everest launched the brand's first ready-to-wear collection in 1999.

Timothy Everest dressed Tom Cruise again, for his reprised role in the 2000 film Mission: Impossible 2, and at the Oscars that year, when he dressed Robin Williams and Burt Bacharach.

Timothy Everest joined DAKS Simpson as design consultant in May 2000.

Timothy Everest was appointed to the board as Group Creative Director in 2002, leaving in 2003.

Timothy Everest is at the forefront of the bespoke casual movement which, as the name suggests, provides individually tailored casual clothing of Savile Row quality, including: casual shirts; smart-casual jackets; T-shirts; and jeans.

Timothy Everest teamed up with British casual and sportswear designer Kim Jones during 2005 and 2006.

Timothy Everest opened a West End store in 2008, at Bruton Street, Mayfair, off Bond Street; less than five minutes walk from Savile Row.

Timothy Everest has been a creative contributor and Sartorial Advisor to men's magazine The Rake since 2008.

Timothy Everest was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours for "services to the fashion industry".

Timothy Everest is quoted as saying that he would like "to be remembered as someone who made people take British clothing seriously".

Timothy Everest has, according to Vogue, dressed "some of the world's most famous people".

Timothy Everest has clients worldwide and travels regularly for fittings in New York, Los Angeles and Japan.