How Weight-Loss Drugs Are Changing Savile Row
9th November 2025
When Kathryn Sargent, the first female master tailor in Britain, meets a new client in her London atelier she needs to “get to know their body”. So she asks: what’s your daily diet? Is your weight stable? Do you work out? These days she is toying with adding a new question. Does she mean: do you dress to the left or the right, sir? “No, I never ask that! It’s the pen. Are you on the pen?”
Caroline Andrew, who, like Sargent, is one of a growing breed of female British tailors who make bespoke suits for both men and women, wrestles with the same issue at her Mayfair studio. “American customers are happy to admit they’re taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Mounjaro. But the Brits aren’t so open. If they suddenly drop three sizes, they tend to say, ‘I’m just eating really healthily.’ ”