My final stop in Paris was Camps de Luca on Place de la Madeleine. When I walked up to the second floor and stepped into the atelier, I asked for someone who could speak English and out came Charles de Luca who is the young cutter, tailor and heir to the de Luca name. Charles […]
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Cifonelli From London, I hopped onto the Eurostar to Paris and embarked at the spanking new Pancras train station, now a dedicated terminus for the high-speed rail link to the continent. My goal was to visit a few of the heirs of the “Parisian five” tailors. Cifonelli was first up and quite impressive (pardon the
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Jones Chalk & Dawson / Tom Brown / Brian Russell / Ward & Kruger / Meyer & Mortimer Meyer & Mortimer were tailors to the original dandy himself – Beau Brummell. Fallan & Harvey SaveSave
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In late February I visited a number of cities (London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Florence and Naples) primarily to research a few critical items for a book project. I shall roll out my commentary on each city in that order. The first city was London and my first stop there was Foster & Son. Foster &
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Thanks to a LondonLounge thread by Guille, I recently discovered that I had misspelled the Teba jacket in my previous posts on the jacket and Barcelona. These misspellings have been fixed. Apparently the jacket is quite popular in Madrid. Guille also provides a photo of Madrid-style Teba jacket, which looks a bit different from the
I wrote last year about my experience chatting with Nedo Bellucci who is based in New York City. As far as I know, Nedo is the only purveyor of custom Neapolitan-style suits and shirts who is actually based in the United States. There are of course visiting tailors as I described in my earlier blog
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Both Novex and Jack Taylor are featured in a LA Times article this week on Los Angeles tailors. The article looks at both bespoke and alteration tailors for men and women. The lead photo features Harold of Novex, wearing what it looks like is one of his own jackets. The link to the photo gallery
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For those living in Paris, a French blogger has conveniently listed the top Parisian tailors – both bespoke (grande mesure) and made to measure or semi-bespoke (demi-mesure). His list of tailleurs offering grande mesure includes: Cifonelli, Camps de Luca, Smalto, Gabriel Gonzalez, Rovito and Max Evzeline. Demi-mesure tailleurs include: Marc Guyot and Elie di Fiore
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