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Hardy Amies (fashion house)

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Hardy Amies London (Limited) is a UK-based fashion house specializing in modern luxury menswear. It was founded by Sir Hardy Amies who was a pioneer of ready-to-wear menswear market in the 1950s, and starting in the 1960s . Amies was commissioned to create high-profile specialized clothing for customers including British World cup and Olympic teams, Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Queen Elizabeth II. The fashion house has changed ownership several times over the course of its history, and for a time, was the property of Fung Capital. In 2018, the company went into administration for a second time. The Savile Row store was closed in March 2019 and the space taken over by Hackett London in June as its flagship store.

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