Patrick Grant (designer)

Patrick Grant is a British fashion designer and creative director of bespoke tailors Norton amp Sons of Savile Row. As a media figure he is best known as a judge on the television series, The Great British Sewing Bee.

Grant was born in Edinburgh, and raised in the citys Morningside district. His Musselburghborn father James managed the pop band Marmalade before becoming an accountant. His mother Susan worked for the University of Edinburgh. He attended the Edinburgh Academy before joining Barnard Castle School as a boarding pupil. Grant explained that My parents thought it would be better for me to be away from home. They have good friends who live not far from Barnard Castle and their two sons were there. So they knew the school and said it was good for rugby and I was mad on rugby. Whilst at Barnard Castle he represented Scottish rugby union at U18 and U19 level, although his rugby career was cut short by a shoulder injury. Grant lists his early fashion influences as Barbour, Burberry, Hunter, Lyle amp Scott and Pringle.

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