INTERVIEW: Leo D'Angelo Fisher for BRW Although its place in Melbourne's history as the clothier to the city's most powerful men for more than a century is assured, not even Henry Bucks is immune from the challenges facing retailers: online shopping and a skittish economy. Tim Cecil, the fourth-generation head of the family-owned menswear retailer, says competition from online retailers is "huge". .
It’s very fair and diverse.” A talented pianist, Tim Cecil’s hands once doubled in a movie for those of a child actor playing a musical prodigy. Now, in his role as managing director of Henry Bucks menswear store, those same hands are responsible for selecting merchandise for the business his great-grandfather started in 1890. Henry Bucks is one of the Foundation’s .
This year Ermenegildo Zegna celebrates its Centennial. The Zegna story is an extraordinary one, and not the least of its success is due to the quiet, calm, sophisticated and disarmingly charming influence and dedication of founder Michelangelo Zegna’s great grandson Paolo Zegna. Paolo in his discreet and modest manner never mentions his full title, Count Paolo Zegna di Monterubello and in .
Just returned a couple of weeks ago from the Florence ‘Pitti Immagine Uomo’ definitive men’s fashion show for our winter 2011 but of course for Europe’s winter 2010. Three of us went. Both the Tim Cecils and Paolo Michelini. Pitti was quite busy and there seems a renewed confidence, albeit a cautious one. Retailers are re-stocking empty shelves where they .
The luxuriously appointed Yorkshire Room at Henry Buck’s has now opened. “It is 118 years since Henry Buck opened a small shirt shop in Swanston Street and 75 years since he died in London. In affectionate and respectful memory of Henry and his home county we wanted to call our private shopping salon (probably the same size as Henry's original shop), .
