Savile Row

Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people, either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.

He lived alone in his house in Savile Row, whither none penetrated.

A single domestic sufficed to serve him.

He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him, and went home at exactly midnight, only retire at once to bed.

He never used the cozy chambers which the reform provides for its favored members.

He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Savile Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet.

When he chose to take a walk, it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns and illumined by blue-painted windows.

When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club, its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy, added to crowd his table with their most succulent stores, he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen, club decanters of a lost mould contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret, while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.

And, and, and Vialli played into this, you know, sort of when he came to London, this kind of, I wouldn't say, you know, dressed in tweed and dressed like the kind of English country lord, but in Italy there is a, a, a great deal of respect for that kind of figure in, in, in English society and, you know, to take your cues.

Because as much as we bash sort of a lot of things about England, and people love to bash English cuisine, the Italians have a lot of respect for Savile Row and things like that.

So there's a, there's an element of that to it.

But yeah, I would say broadly speaking, a lot of, a lot of English players were, were largely considered not up to it and, and failures, you know.

I don't know what your read on the European expansion was from this call.

I think that the, the feel was London finally opened He's finally right off of Savile Row in London, and I think that's just where he wants to, to be.

And honestly, London is such a gateway to the rest of the world, particularly to many clients coming from the Middle East and elsewhere.

And I think he's already seeing a, a, a reaction there and seeing that client showing up.

And, and why was it digital gold? Well, gold is this perfect money.

A single ounce of gold for 5,000 years- has bought a fine person suit from Cleopatra to a suit of armor to a zoot suit in the '20s to Savile Row today.

You guys are both looking natty today, so-

Thank you