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Fashion Fair Play: Harold Tillman Talks Business

As Chair of CO, Harold Tillman has six decades of experience in British fashion retail to draw on. He understands the need for an ethical approach to every aspect of running a business. Here he explains why business is a sport – and how best to play the game.

Harold Tillman is one of the veterans of the British fashion industry, a key player since graduating from London College of Fashion in the early 1960s. He’s a serial entrepreneur. At the tender age of 24, he floated the Savile Row tailoring business Lincroft Kilgour on the London Stock Exchange. There, he had the brilliant idea of asking the celebrity footballer George Best to wear the brand’s suits. 

He hasn’t looked back since. He’s what you might call ‘old school’ – a true gent in every a…

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29 June 2018
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Tamsin Blanchard

Special Projects, Fashion Revolution and curator for Fashion Open Studio at Fashion Revolution and 1 other

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