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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Earlier this year I learned that longtime NYC tailor Nino Corvato retired and sold his business to fellow tailor Pedro Tapia last year. This came as a bit of a surprise to me since in my previous conversations with Mr. Corvato it seemed he had a few more years ahead of him. However, the pandemic
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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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2020 has been a challenging year for the world of tailoring and tailored clothing. The pandemic has certainly seized the headlines this year but there have been bright spots in tailoring – Sicilian tailoring in particular. Most notably, Sicilian tailor Giuseppe (Pippo) Arrigo joined a group of his peers and participated in the relaunched Trofeo
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Beyond the public health impact, the current pandemic has also disrupted the global economy at all levels from ordinary citizens to the world’s largest companies. But it has become clear that some of the hardest hit economically are small businesses, especially craft-related ones. For me, a key question is how to support craft in this coronavirus
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In 2017, I discovered a tailoring circle in the small southern Sicilian town of Ragusa. My trip was initially prompted by coming across the name of Giuseppe Schembari. His signature appeared on a certificate for the jury-reviewed Forbici d’Oro selection for Sicily in 1986. This certificate was hanging in the workshop of Giovanni Cinturrino, a
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I had the pleasure of meeting with Erik Mucska this weekend in the lovely city of Prague. Erik handles sales, marketing and customer service while his brother and father oversee the tailoring part of Slovak tailor Maximilian Mucska. I originally visited the Bratislava shop in 2016 and remain impressed with their ability to construct both
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As I noted in Sartorial Honolulu part 1, sartorialism and tropicalism are by no means polar opposites. But pairing the two requires a bit of an effort. Otherwise, if you have your sartorial blinders on, you’d skip the place. The key to finding interesting examples of sartorialism is paying attention to the underlying work that
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