Fashion Special: Tailoring with focus

Jeremy Hackett says that good tailoring is the key to true style, writes Lisa Brady.

If the average Irishman had cast his eye across the menswear trends emanating from fashion weeks across Europe earlier this year, he would have been rightly terrified, with models sent down the runway in white lace unitards, straw hula skirts, palazzo pants with bodycon dresses and lots and lots of florals.

Thankfully, things were a lot calmer at the Hackett show in London. The man behind the brand, Jeremy Hackett, is reassuringly down ...