Happy new year to all. The hardcover version of my guidebook Sleevehead’s Guide to Sicilian Tailors is now available to purchase. Please visit my other website Sicilian Reserve to buy a copy. SGST3 is the most complete survey of Sicilian tailors currently available with more than double the content of the previous version (260 pages, […]
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The latest update of Sleevehead’s Guide to Sicilian Tailors has finally landed as an e-book. This is the third edition of SGST3 which was first published in 2011. I did not think that I would write a third edition, let alone a second edition in 2017. After writing the second edition, I kept an open
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It’s been some time since my last blog post! Time to catch up and provide an update on my blog and specifically my recent activities regarding Sicilian tailors. I’ve been happily visiting Sicily since international travel became much easier in early 2022. This has allowed me to collect more content for a much needed update
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Given our digital age, this should be good times for older, heritage brands. After all, it is easy for consumers to spot a brand from the distant or not so distant past and post about it in social media. Unfortunately, heritage brands seem to be dropping left and right with no slowdown in sight. This
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I’m pleased to announce that the first Sleevehead Briefing has been published and the topic is the quintessential English menswear brand Alfred Dunhill. This is a follow-up to my recent article and homage to Dunhill as the world’s first modern luxury brand. Too often, luxury brands are described breezily and superficially. Brands like Dunhill, Chanel
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On or about December 1910 human character changed. Virginia Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924) History is rarely a linear and logical progression of events. The insular and exclusive world of luxury brands is a case in point. If you were to name the biggest and most famous luxury brand today, most of us
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Many thanks to Tim Mureau for forwarding this video by Paul Hollywood. The video is not only a wonderful introduction to Sicilian food such as cannoli, cassata, arancini and street food but also to Sicilian history. What is less well-known is that understanding Sicilian food is perhaps the ideal way to understand the uniqueness of Sicilian
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This is the second in a series of interviews with the Sicilian tailors who participated in the 2020 Trofeo Arbiter tailoring competition in Milan. They were the largest representative body to represent Sicilian tailoring in at least 20 years. This interview is with Claudio Italiano of Sartoria Italiano based in Palermo. The pandemic interrupted our
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