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Sean Kinkade

Sean Kinkade is the UK Managing Director and Head of Tailoring for bespoke Hong Kong tailors, Oliver Woo. In a little over two years, the brand has added to it's first store in Royal Tunbridge Wells with new stores in Brighton and Guildford. It is thought the brand is expanding around the M25 before opening stores in Central London and other major cities. Although currently a seemingly small business, Oliver Woo turnover the financial equivalent of one tenth of the entire output of Savile Row. All of the tailoring is carried out by Oliver Woo's own tailors in Kowloon, Hong Kong where the garments are entirely hand-made and returned to the UK in under 4 weeks. Sean Kinkade comes from a retail background, specializing in textile and garment manufacture. His years of tailoring skills were learnt in Kowloon where he trained with master tailors, focusing primarily on the burgeoning ex-pat community centred in Hong Kong. He brought the 'Hong Kong tailoring' concept back to the UK and has created a relaxed, informal tailoring environment more akin to the tailors of Hong Kong than the stuffy environs of Savile Row. It is thought Oliver Woo is the first business in the UK to offer this type of service and should not be confused with the 'travelling tailor' type business that operate from Hotel rooms in the UK and Europe. It would appear to be Sean's aim to build a sustainable, long term chain of tailoring establishments rather than making fleeting visits to towns via the local Hilton.