 Modernisation of tailoring continued in 1969 with Nutters of Savile Row . Nutters of Savile Row was opened on Valentine 's Day 1969 by Tommy Nutter and Edward Sexton , who had worked together at Donaldson , Williamson & Ward . Financially backed by Cilla Black and Peter Brown of the Beatles Apple Corps , Nutters used bold window displays , created by the then unknown Simon Doonan ; and clients included the Beatles , Mick Jagger , Elton John , and Andrew Lloyd Webber . Nutter left the company in 1976 and went to work at Kilgour . He died in 1992 . 
