Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as "Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore" In the early 1990s, Taylor of Old Bond Street received an honorable and exciting request from Eton College, which later became the basis for the blue series Eton College Collections.

King Camp Gillette was in the late 1800s working as a seller but was very interested in creating and selling new and own products. He received advice from the inventor behind the disposable capsule, William Painter, that the key to selling big volumes was to be found in inventing products that only can be used once and then thrown away. In the year of 1895 Gillette was 40 years old and standing in front of the mirror he got his bright idea.