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17 august 1992 cromwell hospital , london , england barmouth , merioneth , wales nutters of savile row welsh '' nicholson in '' batman . '' abbey road '' the joker worn by jack 17 april 1943 file : tommy nutter , english tailor.jpg tommy nutter
 willesden technical college tailor and cutter academy tommy nutter
tommy nutter

tommy nutter -lrb- 17 april 1943 -- 17 august 1992 -rrb- , was a british tailor , famous for reinventing the savile row suit in the 1960s .
born in barmouth , merioneth to christopher nutter and dorothy -lrb- formerly banister -rrb- , he was raised in edgware , middlesex , where his father owned a local high street cafe .
after the family moved to kilburn , nutter and his brother david attended willesden technical college .
nutter initially studied plumbing , and then architecture , but he abandoned both aged 19 to study tailoring at the tailor and cutter academy .
in the early 1960s he joined traditional tailors donaldson , williamson & ward .
after seven years , in 1969 , he joined up with edward sexton , to open `` nutters of savile row '' at no 35a savile row .
they were financially backed by cilla black and her husband bobby willis , managing director of the beatles ' apple corps peter brown , and lawyer james vallance-white .
the business was an immediate success , as nutter combined traditional tailoring skills with innovative design .
he designed for the hardy amies range , and then for the man himself .
his clients included his investors , plus sir roy strong , mick jagger , bianca jagger and elton john .
nutter himself was most proud of the fact that , for the cover of the beatles ' album `` abbey road '' in 1969 , he dressed three out of the four : george harrison elected to be photographed on the road-crossing in denims .
in the 1970s his bespoke business became less successful , but he branched out into ready to wear clothing , marketed through austin reed .
he also successfully expanded into east asia , establishing the savile row brand in japan .
in 1976 sexton bought nutter out of the business .
nutter went to work for kilgour french and stanbury , managing his own workroom .
sexton continued to run nutters of savile row until 1983 , when nutter returned to the row with a ready to wear shop : `` tommy nutter , savile row '' .
-lrb- this new venture , which traded at no 19 savile row until tommy 's death , was backed by j&j crombie limited , who continue to own the `` tommy nutter '' trademark . -rrb-
at this time , sexton set up a business in his own name .
in the 1980s , he described his suits as a `` cross between the big-shouldered `` miami vice '' look and the authentic savile row . ''
he created the clothing of the joker worn by jack nicholson in the 1989 film `` batman . ''
nutter died in 1992 at the cromwell hospital in london of complications from aids .
