スティーヴン・フライのインスタグラム(stephenfryactually) - 6月22日 14時16分

The days are getting shorter and the lockdown looser now and so I am bidding farewell to #fryties with this last display of 3 from my favourite tie-makers. They are each small, independent, imaginative and talented. We start with Nino’s, of Soho’s Brewer Street. The son of a well-known London tailor, Franco Santoro, Nino has been making bespoke shirts and suits since 1993. This gorgeous tie is hand painted. I have a black and white version too.

Pic 2 (swipe left) is from Penrose, who’ve been specialising in designing and making ties for years. This beauty reminds me of something sumptuously medieval – perhaps filtered through the mind of a Victorian like William Morris or Augustus Pugin.

Pic 3 is the work of Magties, who made ties for me in the latter series of QI. Alan Brooker started the company in Brick Lane and says in his little biog on the Etsy page where he still sells his remarkable creations: “I built a client range including Sir Paul McCartney, Stephen Fry, Dr Who and James Bond to mention a few.” Only ties could place me in such company.

It has been an unreserved delight to share neckties and cravats with you all. Your enthusiastic responses, witty participation and informed commentaries have lightened my days throughout this bizarre and unforgettable lockdown experience. We will none of us forget the months of seclusion, fear and uncertainty, but I hope most of us will have found plenty to enjoy too. A new kind of closeness with the natural world and with that mysterious entity Time; with friends, food, family, pets too and – yes – even something as silly as ties. Frivolous, facetious, facile and superficial as they may appear, ties can serve as windows into our mythologies; into the stories of our cultural, historical, economic, social lives, remembered and misremembered as they so often are. I hope amongst the 100+ I shared with you one or two struck some kind of chord.
Farewell then, loyal and friendly followers of #fryties. I’ll still be here on Instagram and maybe I’ll still post the odd tie as mood and occasion demand.

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