Ben Sherman

Ben Sherman was a legend in his own right. A man described as 'always embracing the new and the different'; someone constantly searching for the best of things. He disliked regularity, preferring to search out things that were perceived as unavailable to him. He was a passionate businessman with an artist's soul. Born Arthur Benjamin Sugarman in Brighton in 1925, at just 20 years old Arthur left a post-war torn Britain for America where he saw a land of hope and promise; he was full of drive and ambition.

He raised a family in the San Fernando valley and began working for his father-in-law who owned a successful clothing manufacturing company. It was also while in America when applying for citizenship, that Arthur decided to change his name. Ben is what his family called him and Sherman was a surname that he felt was a good, solid, strong American name. Unfortunately his mother who lived back in England became very ill, so he quit his job and relocated the family back home to Brighton.