They were very much aware of how the demand for tailored clothing is changing among women as their professional lives become increasingly more public, and wanted to know how this was being met by the trade.
As always with filming, what is intended as a few minutes in front of a camera turns into a full day’s work, but it is always good to explain the process of bespoke to those who are interested.
A huge thanks goes out to all my friends and colleagues on the Row who helped out.
The documentary will go out as part of the El Mundo programme on NHK BS1 and I hope that some of my friends in Japan will still be awake to see it! And when I shortly receive my copy it will be uploaded here on the site, so please watch this space.
P.S. As a footnote, I bumped into another film crew yesterday in my favourite haberdashers, MacCulloch & Wallace. The BBC crew were filming the latest episode of the ‘Apprentice’ and one of the participants had been instructed to source 10 metres of , well you’ll see, while she stumbled through an attempt to negotiate the price. Goodness knows why, but from the look of the cloth I think she may be planning some mid-series nuptials