S.E.H Kelly

Coordinates
51.5260758° N, -0.0771649° W

Address
1 Cleve Workshops
Boundary Street
London
E2 7JD

Website
www.sehkelly.com

Email
info@sehkelly.com

Telephone
+44 (0)203 397 0449

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If you don’t know it’s there, it’s difficult to stumble across the workshop of British menswear clothier S.E.H Kelly. Set back from Boundary Road in London’s East End, the store is housed in 1 Cleve Workshops, a row of late 19th century single-storey units built by Reginald Minton Taylor and originally constructed as part of the Boundary Estate.

After the venue was ‘dusted down’, Sara Kelly and Paul Vincent opened S.E.H Kelly in 2009 with a view to making garments from luxurious cloths produced by the best mills and factories in the British Isles. Sara, a London College of Fashion graduate and the design half of the duo, has a strong background in garment creation and tailoring and lists Savile Row and Hardy Amies as her former employers.  Sara’s tailoring experience is evident in each S.E.H Kelly piece and all garments endure the same process of creation, one that fuses design-in-detail, luxury cloths and craft precision with casualwear.

Each garment begins life at the S.E.H Kelly workshop where ideas are created and designs are formed and the result means that S.E.H Kelly’s patterns are on a par with some of the best-schooled pattern cutters in the city. The cloths originate from the looms of tailor grade mills, carefully sourced from all over the British Isles and paired with patterns at a handful of small workrooms, each one a specialist in a particular garment type, whether a shirt, coat or trouser.

S.E.H Kelly has a defined aesthetic and whilst the collections can be described as part of the growing heritage scene, Sara’s designs are arguably more progressive, offering workwear created for the modern urban individual.  S.E.H Kelly’s design process is a little unorthodox when compared to the operations of others in the clothing industry but perhaps more realistic. Garments are made as and when and traditional seasons are ignored with most S.E.H Kelly designs created depending on the availability of cloth and patterns.

As the workshop doubles up as a store and working space, there are no fixed opening hours so call ahead to arrange a visit. 

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Opening Hours
Monday - Friday
Call ahead or email to arrange a visit.
Saturday - Sunday
12:00noon - 5:00pm

Nearest Train Station
Liverpool Street Tube Station (Underground)

Nearest Bus Station
Shoreditch High Street

Words by Lee Fleming

Photography by Michael Gannon