Carlo Brandelli's fashionable London life

Carlo Brandelli is the creative director of Savile Row tailors Kilgour, and has exhibited his sculpture in Paris. He reveals his London arts and culture highlights to Flora Hughes-Onslow

With his grand return to Kilgour as creative director in the pipeline for several months now, a new Kilgour store opening, and a bespoke studio designed by him to house the A/W14 ready-to-wear collection, this has been a big year for Carlo Brandelli.

The designer made his name in the 90s with Squire, a store just off Savile Row that championed a refreshingly elegant idea of young menswear and was routinely described as 'art gallery as much as clothes shop'. Brandelli took the reigns at Kilgour, one of England's oldest and grandest tailors, in 2003. He successfully transformed the brand in a relatively short space of time, re-defining it with a ready-to-wear collection made up of sharp, modern silhouettes, and personally designing the new store in line with this vision (both shocking and shaking up the stuffy Savile Row establishment in the process). Having dressed Jude Law, Daniel Craig, and Alexander McQueen, amongst others, Mr Brandelli was voted Menswear Designer of the Year in 2005 by the British Fashion Council.

He resigned in 2008 to pursue his career as an artist, in 2010 revealing a series of Brandelli sculptures at his debut exhibition at the RCM Gallerie in Paris. His work, stark, abstract and austere, has much in common with his sartorial aesthetic. Now back at the helm of Kilgour, Brandelli looks set to deliver some exceptional tailoring to London's stylish men. 

Carlo Brandelli's fashionable London life

London haunts: Pierre Hermé for macaroons, Fortnums for olive oil and relishes, and Bookart in N1 is great for artists' books.

Art: The thought and intention of young artists is always good. Contemporary art in London is really well represented, I like Cabinet Gallery in Old Street and Maureen Paley Gallery in the East End. I also love the Serpentine and before I left London in the summer, the Ed Atkins show was really good.

Food: I love going to a good restaurant to relax and at the moment I like the brilliant Fera at Claridge's. The combination of progressive cooking by Simon Rogan in the classic glamour of Claridge's Deco building is a tranquil oasis.

Film: I don't really like to go to cinemas as watching films with too many people I find very distracting, but I do watch many privately. 'I Am Love' with Tilda Swinton is a particular favourite with much of the film being shot in Milan (my home town). The house featured was Villa Nechi, an important house architecturally.

Fair: I always look forward to Frieze Art Fair in October in Regent's Park, sometimes participating and sometimes just viewing.