The House
A quiet devotion to the craft.

Built above a tailor, in 2011.
EMZ's Clipper was founded by Elliot Vance with a simple idea: take the precision of Italian scissor work, the ritual of the Turkish shave, and the quiet confidence of British gentleman's style — and put them under one dimly-lit roof in Soho.
Fourteen years and twenty thousand cuts a year later, we're still in the same building on Berwick Street. Same brass plaque. Same leather sofa. Same espresso waiting.
We train every barber on the floor. We don't run an academy on the side. The only chair we care about is yours.
The chairs.

Elliot Vance
Master Barber & Founder
Opened the doors in 2011 after seven years at Pankhurst. Trains every new barber on the floor.

Henry Calder
Senior Stylist
Specialist in classic British gentleman's cuts. Eleven years on the chair.

Joseph Marlowe
Beard & Razor Specialist
Trained in Istanbul. Lives and breathes the hot-towel shave.
Tools of the trade.
Hattori Hanzo shears. Wahl Magic Clip Cordless. Dovo straight razors out of Solingen. Layrite, D.R. Harris and our own house pomade. All of it for sale at the counter, if you'd like to take a piece of the chair home.
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