Sam’s Tailor

The best known of them all, Sam’s Tailor, is something of an exception to that posh location rule; his tiny store is located in a shopping arcade alley with the absurdly grand address of “Burlington Arcade.” The boss, Manu Melwani, is available to go at a moment’s notice to the hotel rooms of clients such as Bill Clinton. “I see myself as similar to a lawyer or a doctor,” says the loquacious and charming Melwani. “When people come for a fitting, it’s like an X-ray; I know lots of things about their body.”