Patrick Grant has been entertaining viewers over the past few weeks with a brand new series about the Great British Bee on BBC One.
The fashion designer, who was a judge on the show alongside fashion guru Esme Young, has had an impressive career in the industry. But did you know that fashion was not his first career choice?
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While Patrick is currently the director of custom tailors such as Norton & Sons of Savile Row and E. Tautz & Sons, he initially started his career as an engineer.
The businessman studied engineering at the University of Leeds, and after returning to the UK from a stint in the US as a ski instructor and summer camp consultant, he continued to work in the hospitality industry. town.
© James StackSara Pascoe hosts the BBC, while Esme Young and Patrick Grant judge the contestants
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He then pursued an MBA at the internationally renowned Saïd Business School at Oxford University, where he found his passion. While doing his research, he came across a Financial Times in which the Grangers were selling tailor-made Norton & Sons.
© Guy LevyPatrick is a fashion designer and business owner
“I don’t know what it means or how much it costs, but I just know that I want to know more,” he told GQ in 2015.
After graduating from Oxford, Patrick bought a business that at the time consisted of only himself, a tailor and a part-time tailor.
With the purchase of Norton & Sons, he also acquired the rights to two other businesses, E Tautz and Hammond & Co., and relaunched E Tautz as a ready-to-wear brand in 2009. He was named Menswear Designer of the Year in 2009. 2010 at the British Fashion Awards in recognition of his work.
© ProductionPatrick is an award-winning designer
Patrick is also the director of Community Clothing, which is made at textile manufacturer Cookson & Clegg in Blackburn, and has used the business to produce PPE for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Scottish star recently presented on BBC Two Coronation Tailor: Fit for a Kinga behind-the-scenes documentary of the Tottenham-based Kashket & Partners family business, which produced 6,000 uniforms for servicemen during the coronation.
© Guy LevyPatrick introduced BBC Two’s Coronation Tailor: Fit for a King in May
Talking about working with King Charles, Patrick told the PA news agency: “I do some work for His Majesty and I have met him many times – he is a man who loves beautiful things, he loves clothes, he’s a man who loves his job.”
It is clear that Patrick developed an appreciation for fashion at a young age, he told The Guardian: “I’ve always been really interested in clothes. I don’t remember ever being fully aware of what I was. are wearing and want to be matched properly.”
© Stephanie FyfePatrick went behind the scenes at Kashket & Partners in Coronation Tailors: Fit for a King
On the secret to his success, he said: “I’m an optimist. I don’t think you can start your own business if you’re not optimistic. You have to assume everything will be okay. . I’m a positive person. I never really felt nervous.”
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