Popular Culture
- No. 7 Savile Row was the London address of Phileas Fogg, protagonist of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days.
- In Japanese, one word for "suit" is sebiro (背広), purportedly a corruption of "Savile Row."
- Saville Row appears in the Monopoly Here and Now edition, a misspelling of the correct name.
- Savile Row is featured as venue in the music video game Rock Band.
- Savile Row is mentioned in The Kinks' song, "End of the Season".
- Savile Row suits are mentioned in The Monochrome Set's song "Jet Set Junta".
- Savile Row is mentioned in the song "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" in the hit musical Annie.
- In the cult film Withnail and I, Withnail claims his suit was cut by "Hawkes of Savile Row".
- In the song "American Boy" by Estelle with Kanye West, the line "Dressed smart like a London bloke / Before he speaks his suit bespoke" refers to bespoke tailoring common to Savile Row.
- The Streets mention Savile Row in the song "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living". "Go into Maurice Sedwell of Savile Row / I want a pin-stripe suit that no man owns".
- In the cult film Sextette, the fashion designer portrayed by Keith Moon mentions his client's husband's suit being from the north side of Savile Row.
- Savile Row is mentioned in the James Bond film Dr. No. The suits that Sean Connery actually wears in the film were made by Anthony Sinclair, in nearby Conduit Street.
- In the film The Tailor of Panama, Savile Row is the former location of the "Pendel & Braithwaite" tailor shop.
- In the 24th episode of the sixth season of Married with Children ("The England Show I") Al and Bud Bundy visit Poole & Co. tailors on Savile Row.
- In episode #7 of the second season of Gossip Girl a bartender refers to one of Chuck Bass's suits as a Savile Row.
- Jay-Z mentions Savile Row in the song "Glory" which was dedicated to his newborn daughter. "2 years old, shopping on Savile Row"
- In episode five, series eleven of Top Gear, the host tries to park a Mercedes-Benz 600, as well as a Rolls-Royce Corniche, in a narrow parking space on Savile Row.
- In the film This Means War, FDR mentions that his suit is made by "Savile Row's finest"
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)