TV news presenter Huw Edwards (for it is he) is asked : Do you have an innate sense of what is appropriate to wear on TV?
It’s instinctual. You can’t be in loud colours or anything too fashion-focused or something that says you’re in party mode as lots of the stuff you’re sharing with people is the exact opposite of that. So you have more restrictions on you than if you were presenting another type of programme – but it’s part of the challenge and I like the challenge. It’s the reason I have boxes and boxes of ties at home.
And what about your suits for TV? Are you regularly on Savile Row getting new ones made?
I spread it around a bit. I find it a bit suspicious when people say they always go to the same place. I’ve bought suits from Anderson & Sheppard, Richard James, Henry Poole – and I love Italian tailors. There’s one that comes into London every month from Varese in northern Italy called Vergallo. They’ve made me four suits over the years and they’re excellent. Much as I love an English suit, I sometimes find the trousers a little baggy and Italians tend to cut them a little slimmer. But, because of my boxing, my shape has changed a lot recently.
Yes, now that you’ve taken up boxing, you must be as much an aficionado of technical sportswear as you are of suits?
Well, a little bit, but you can spend an absolute fortune on it. The thing with my boxing gym in East Dulwich/Camberwell is that it’s not a ‘Mayfair personal fitness’ kind of place. If I turned up in some ‘outfit’, I’d look out of place and feel a bit of an idiot. The guys there pitch up in whatever they’ve got, so I do the same. When it comes to technical stuff, I’ll wear some Welsh rugby kit, and maybe a bit of Björn Borg as I do need a few bits that breathe well – I’m very, very sweaty.
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