Aquilano.Rimondi One of Milan's youngest labels, Aquilano.Rimondi makes a point of exploring and exploiting Italy's oldest tailoring traditions like laboriously modeling, patterning and constructing garments directly on the body in numerous fittings.
A boy was taking guitar lessons from a teacher; an old tailor taught another boy to use a sewing machine.
There was really no reason for a young man to work at a dusty firm like Blass except to learn things that only old tailors knew.
For example, if you wanted to get a great suit, you'd go to the old tailor in your city, because you know he'll do a better job — no disrespect — than, say, a big flagship in the middle of Tokyo".
(Actually, I did receive for Christmas my grandfather's old tailor scissors that he also used to clips his nose hairs and my grandmother's old knife, that she used to cut things with. Those I'm keeping).
But I know for sure that a 60-year old tailor, with a lifetime of experience cutting and sawing garments, makes €1,000 a month in a medium respectable (and here nameless) company in Milan.
Cheng Wen-shiung, a 47-year-old tailor, also said the threats from China would not intimidate him.
But Mahesh Solanki, a 29-year-old tailor, had managed to keep his mother, Nirmala, alive.
Westwood had designed them and that specialist in "academic robes", London's oldest tailors Ede & Ravenscroft, had produced them.
At the oldest tailor on the high street, wedding tails and waistcoats were getting the finishing touches for the royal nuptials.
