Patrick James Grant FRSA (born 1 May 1972) is a Scottish^[4][5] fashion designer and businessman who is director of bespoke tailors Norton & Sons of Savile Row, clothing lines E. Tautz & Sons and Community Clothing, and textile manufacturer Cookson & Clegg. Since 2013, he has been a judge on the reality series The Great British Sewing Bee, which aired on BBC Two before moving to BBC One in 2020.

After taking over Norton & Sons in 2005, Grant has been credited with rejuvenating the once ailing business.^[6][7] He relaunched E. Tautz as a ready to wear label in 2009, for which he was awarded the Menswear Designer award at the British Fashion Awards in 2010.^[3]

Grant was born in Edinburgh, and raised in the city's Morningside district.^[8] His Musselburgh-born father, James (1940–2020), managed the pop band Marmalade before becoming an accountant at RMJM and mini rugby coach.^[9][8][10] His mother, Susan, worked for the University of Edinburgh.^[11] His maternal grandfather, Flt. Lt. Walter Henry Ewen FitzEarle of Rosskeen, was killed in action in the Second World War when his plane was shot down while flying for the Royal Air Force;^[12][13][14] Grant keeps his wardrobe trunk, which had previously belonged to his great-grandfather Walter FitzEarle, the bandmaster of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, in his design studio.^[15] His other grandfather worked as a yarn designer in Galashiels, Scottish Borders.^[16] He has a younger sister, Victoria, who works for his businesses.^[17]

Grant attended South Morningside Primary School, then 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."^[8] Whilst at Barnard Castle he represented Scotland at rugby union at U18 and U19 level. He took a gap year after school and played for West Hartlepool R.F.C.,^[16] although his rugby career was cut short by a shoulder injury.^[11] Grant lists his early fashion influences as Barbour, Burberry, Hunter, Lyle & Scott and Pringle.^[11]

Grant completed a degree in material sciences at the University of Leeds in 1994.^[18] He chose an engineering degree because of "a fascination with how things are made".^[19] His course included a year spent at the University of Orleans.^[20]

Following graduation Grant relocated to the United States where he worked as a ski instructor,^[11] as a counsellor at a summer camp in Santa Cruz, California, as a nanny, a landscape gardener, and a model agent.^[21] He returned to Britain in 1995 to take up a career in marketing, first at cable-makers BICC and Corning, before moving to optical components manufacturer Bookham Technology in 2000.^[22] From 2004, Grant studied for a MBA degree, funded by Bookham, at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he was a member of New College.^[23] His thesis, completed in October 2005, concerned the regeneration of luxury fashion brands such as Burberry, and was titled "Is Burberry's formula for brand revitalisation replicable?".^[3]

Grant is best known by the general public for his work as a judge on the BBC television series The Great British Sewing Bee.^[35] He has appeared in the British editions of GQ and Esquire magazines.^[35] He has appeared as a guest on BBC television and radio programmes, such as Breakfast, Countryfile and Steve Wright in the Afternoon.

In May 2023, Grant presented the documentary Coronation Tailors: Fit for a King (BBC Two) about the preparation of military dress on display during the Coronation of King Charles III. The documentary focused on the family-run business Kashket & Partners, which made more than 6,000 uniforms for the parade.^[36]

In 2013 Grant was made an Honorary Professor in Business at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2016. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Heriot Watt University's School of Textiles and Design. In 2018 he was named co-chair of the Prince of Wales' charity Future Textiles, an organisation working to sustain skills and create jobs in the UK's garment making industry.^[37]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Grant moved from London to Lancashire in March 2020 to run his factory in Blackburn, where he was making personal protective equipment (PPE) for the NHS.^[38][39] He now divides his time between London and Lancashire.^[40]

Grant's partner is a dentist he met in 2022.^[40] He was previously in a relationship with fellow designer Katie Hillier from 2007 to 2015. ^[41][38][42]

Grant's father died after contracting COVID-19 in 2020.^[43] His mother still lives in Morningside.^[11]