The man who dressed Mick Jagger

The Nutters suit, unlike others on the Row, was cut for flash: tight-waisted and small-chested to emphasise the body

He was “an inspired young designer with a starry clientele.” Mick wore him (at his Saint-Tropez wedding to Bianca, 1971). Lennon wore him (at his Gibraltar wedding to Yoko, 1969). The Beatles wore him on the cover of “Abbey Road” (all except George, who wore jeans. George!).

At the end of the 1960s and through the 1970s, the suit owed a debt of gratitude to Tommy Nutter, the British tailor who gate-crashed Savile Row, the seat and symbol of English suit-making, and bent it — or at least, his own particular corner of it, at No. 35a — to his own