Juhn @ sleevehead, Author at Sleevehead

Hudson Yards shopping entrance. Photo credit: Juhn Maing

Apr 3 2019

Retail apocalypse or renaissance? The battle for two kinds of retail mastery

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That retailing is being disrupted has become painfully obvious in the last couple of years. In 2017, the phrase “retail apocalypse” was coined to describe legacy retailers closing thousands of stores in the US. This has been usually attributed to the two-pronged attack by Amazon on price and convenience. Other reasons include excessive debt held […]

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Sartoria Italiano sports jacket. Photo credit: Sartoria Italiano

Mar 23 2019

Update: Sicilian Reserve x Sartoria Italiano

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I’m pleased to announce that the first visiting tailor for Sicilian Reserve this year is Sartoria Italiano. I launched Sicilian Reserve as a platform to help connect Sicilian artisans to new customers. To kick things off, I will be working with Sartoria Italiano (IG: @sartoriaitaliano) for a spring 2019 visit to the US. Claudio and

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De Paz, a Bologna menswear institution. Photo credit: Juhn Maing

Mar 15 2019

Sartorial excursion: Bologna

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Sartorial Bologna has long been on my list of places to visit. This year I decided to piggyback a half-day trip in January as a part of a more extended itinerary including Venice. What struck me initially was Bologna’s medieval character as expressed in its fortified yet interconnected architecture. Not only is Bologna a walled

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Close-up of a Savoca DB jacket shoulder. Photo credit: Juhn Maing

Mar 3 2019

Sartoria Savoca

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Thanks to the timely assistance of a dedicated reader (special thanks to Otto), I was able to confirm that Catanese tailor Sebastiano Savoca was still active in 2017. I therefore retained his profile in the latest update to my book SGST published the same year. In spring 2018, I finally had the opportunity to reconnect

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Mar 3 2019

Update: Sicilian Reserve

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Beginning in 2019, my other project – Sicilian Reserve – will become more of a platform to help connect Sicilian artisans to US and other customers. Our primary role will be assisting tailors and artisans to organize their visits and trunk shows. This has one main advantage – you can express interest in having a

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Bespoke vest by Vito Randazzo close to completion

Mar 2 2019

Update: Sartoria Randazzo

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In February 2019, I had the chance to stop by the workshop of Vito Randazzo who has taken over his father’s reins as the head of a well-respected and much-loved tailoring shop in Catania. I first wrote about Salvatore Randazzo in a short profile for the second edition of Sleevehead’s Guide to Sicilian Tailors. The

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Feb 18 2019

The artisan’s dilemma: a view from Venice

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Clayton Christensen famously coined the more well-known version of this dilemma from the point of view of the innovator, specifically the tech innovator. For Christensen, the innovator’s dilemma is the problem of the second act, the sophomore slump if you will. Tech innovators tend to fail because they essentially free ride off of an initially…

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