It’s a tall task managing business, marriage and . But it is a high-tempo dance that Rav and Parv Matharu, partners in life and work, have mastered. It’s what allowed them to build clothsurgeon in a makeshift studio out of Rav’s Dalston flat in 2012.
Their compounded efforts as a small family business paid off a decade later when the luxury bespoke streetwear brand not only became the first shop to sell made-to-order streetwear on Savile Row, ’s most revered address, but also the first to be owned and operated by a . To be ‘the first’ comes with its own set of challenges. Perhaps success tastes even sweeter to Rav because he never intended to be a fashion designer.
A trained footballer playing for Leeds United at the age of 17, he eventually found a job as a sales shop assistant in a sneaker store when no longer remained the dream it once was. When he met his now wife and business partner, Parv, in the summer of 2010, Rav had already registered the name clothsurgeon in order to trade under its label in the future. It wasn’t until 2012, after they got married, that they officially started the brand as it is known today.
“Rav introduced me to his world of creativity and fashion. I quickly saw his raw talent and the ability to visualise things differently,” says Parv who comes from a corporate real estate background and shares Rav’s belief that luxury can be made with the same attention to detail as a crisply tailored suit. While Rav splits his time between m.