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Cigar Aficionado, September 2023

All those stitches are there for a reason,” says Paolo Martorano, looking over a client during a fitting for a bespoke jacket that is about halfway to completion. The jacket has lines of threads, each a different color, going in various directions across the garment. “They are literally telling the...

Robb Report: August 2023

One of N.Y.C.’s Best Bespoke Tailors Just Teamed Up With India’s Foremost Shirtmaker In 2020, Paolo Martorano discovered that his clients were increasingly interested in handmade shirts—a preference that was leading them to other makers. In order for his bespoke tailoring business to fulfil that need, he realized he’d need a hand—or more specifically, 100 Hands....

Robb Report: June 2023

Determining the proper attire for an event on dry land is maddening enough; add international waters to the mix, and you’re in the throes of a sartorial dilemma. With post-Covid dress codes still in flux, what exactly constitutes yacht appropriate eveningwear in 2023? As a cofounder of Pelorus, a luxury...

Permanent Style: March 2023

This bespoke jacket was made for me by Paolo Martorano, the tailor in New York I first covered in 2020. It’s particularly significant because of the dearth of bespoke tailors in the US. Although many tailors travel to the US from the UK and Europe, and some now also have...

The Robb Report: March 2023

With made-to-measure and bespoke tailors crafting everything from pajama sets to safari jackets for the modern man, it would follow that raincoats should feature in their repertoire. But custom-made rainwear remains a rarity, a seeming oversight considering the difficulty of altering traditional raincoats.Unlike woolen overcoats, whose sleeve lengths can be...

The Financial Times Journal: February 2023

Clothing warms, protects, decorates and communicates (though almost never in that order). It performs these overt functions for both sexes in more or less equal measure. The covert functions — concealing, camouflaging, diverting — are more often discussed in the context of women’s clothes.This is because we still live in...

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