In September of 2020, the elegantly kinetic Daisy Knatchbull, 30, great-granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten of Burma (an uncle of Prince Philip’s and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria’s), who was murdered by the I.R.A. in 1979, along with his grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, Daisy’s father’s brother, made Savile Row history.
She became the first woman to open a shop front, named the Deck, on the hitherto exclusively male, centuries-old sartorial boulevard. But the twist is that her $2,500 custom suits are made for women only. No wonder this development was reported across news channels, from NBC to the BBC.
