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Stars come out for Brighton tailor's new London venture

3:30pm Saturday 28th January 2012 in News

Gresham Blake with Steve Coogan and Krishnan Guru-Murthy Gresham Blake with Steve Coogan and Krishnan Guru-Murthy

A tailor to the stars has opened a flagship London store.

But Gresham Blake said the move does not mean he will be spending less time at his base in Bond Street, Brighton.

Actor Ray Winstone, comedian Steve Coogan, bestselling crime writer Peter James, author Simon Toyne and hairdresser Mark Woolley, owner of Electric in Ship Street, Brighton, were among the celebrities at the glitzy bash in Shoreditch.

Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy was also at the event.

He tweeted that Mr Coogan was pleased that he was wearing a tie Mr Coogan had designed for Mr Blake.

Hollywood actor Mr Winstone said he had been buying suits from Mr Blake’s Brighton store for years.

Mr Blake has been hailed as part of the “new bespoke movement”.

His style attempts to remodel classic British tailoring by making it relevant to a new audience of younger customers.

His style has been described as ‘Savile Row with a rock star twist’.

Mr Blake insisted that opening the new store does not mean he will spend less time at his home town store.

He said: “My passion is Brighton and my heart remains in the city.

“The place is unique and there is nothing like Brighton people.

“I have restructured the business so that customers in Bond Street can expect to see more of me, not less.

“No one should get the idea that I am less than 100% committed to it.

“I plan to spend a lot more time on the shop floors in Brighton this year.”

See more pictures from the opening event inside today's Argus.

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Comments(11)

Hove Actually says...
8:11pm Sat 28 Jan 12

Thats a new business plan, open a new venture and state you intend to spend more time in your old one....

Good luck with that?

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
8:31pm Sat 28 Jan 12

Gosh, I'm a celebrity, I must turn up to the opening of an envelope to get my face in the Z-List press yet when the press write nasty, but true things about me, I must ramble on in public that my poor family are upset.
By the way, I have a new DVD/Book/Self-Help Podcast/Clothing range to promote...please delete as necessary.

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Gelatine magic says...
9:13pm Sat 28 Jan 12

"ooh, I have magical scissors the length of my arm and am close personal friends with men off the telly. I would make a suit for you, but I have to climb into a car made of compressed soup in order to get to London. I am providing suits to a group of firm jawed men who are protesting the very existence of Brighton. I will come back and finish off your trousers next week, if you're not in hospital nursing your back and starving as the nurses gleefully whisk your special invalid food from under your nose." yours sincerely, Noel Edmonds, more like!

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Hotbeans says...
12:18am Sun 29 Jan 12

Can we have more stories on this non entity please? It seems to be drawing some of the finer examples of satirical commenting to the site, the likes we've not seen for some time.

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Gelatine magic says...
1:10am Sun 29 Jan 12

The more I look at the photo, the more my bile rises. It's almost like he's saying,"look at my two great pals. Without me, they'd be naked. Mm, a nice drink in my hand as I share a joke with a bearded man and a non bearded man". Well, at least he'll be leaving soon, crammed into the cab of a Luton van stuffed with condensed milk, towing a trailer filled to the brim with tape-measures, thread and arm long scissors.

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Reader9000 says...
4:50am Sun 29 Jan 12

Hotbeans wrote:
Can we have more stories on this non entity please? It seems to be drawing some of the finer examples of satirical commenting to the site, the likes we've not seen for some time.
Yes! More please.

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Euly says...
9:31am Sun 29 Jan 12

I think I must be reading a different article to you people, what the he'll are you drivelling on about ?.
Good luck to Mr Blake

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albion001 says...
1:32pm Sun 29 Jan 12

You haters, what is it with you Brighton folk?
Firstly: One of your own - educated here, set up his business here and fully supports local ventures, is doing well and only one person can be gracious enough to take his hat of to the man and wish him good luck.
Secondly: Just how much can a rich person really hate where they live; Steve Coogan, Krishnan Guru-Murthy both chose to live here and needless to say I am sure could both afford to live elsewhere.
I'm surprised you people find the time to post your comments between making your voodoo dolls and going out and buying pins.
I already feel sorry for Gus Poyet as I'm pretty sure you probably have a doll made up for him too!
Good luck Gresham, kick on the Brighton, we love you all.

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albion001 says...
2:34pm Sun 29 Jan 12

Maybe you should just ask him if you could sell your Big Issues from outside his Brighton shop , and get of his case...

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Gelatine magic says...
2:54pm Sun 29 Jan 12

Maybe we could get pins for our voodo dolls if SOMEONE hadn't bought them all up for making suits with a rock star twist. Perhaps people could sell the Big Issue outside his shop if there wasn't the ever present threat of being chased by elongated scissors. Picture them all in the room in the back of his shop. All sat round a card table on children's chairs bought by suit-money, enlarged A-Z on the table. Each of them with a highlighter marking what places they want destroyed. Which streets they think contain the ugliest people. After an hour, the entire map is covered, ripped in places where the pens have been applied with particular venom. The map is then measured, cut into a swastika, and flushed down the toilet whilst they guffaw. Then it's into the Luton van, fancy music on the radio, glovebox crammed with yoghurt, off to London. Making obscene gestures as Brighton disappears behind them.

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moronslayer says...
3:50pm Sun 29 Jan 12

Mind blown. Gelatine magic rocks, with a twist.

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