The city had its first popular uprising in 1830 when tailors' apprentices took to the streets over working conditions.
Ms. Danticat's father was a tailor's apprentice — expected to sew two dozen shirts a day, for which he received about 5 cents a shirt — who eventually went into business for himself.
His first play, "Don't Destroy Me," written while he was serving an apprenticeship as a tailor, was about the emotional paralysis of a tailor's apprentice in a working-class Jewish family, and was produced to critical praise in London in 1956, when he was just 18.
The most comprehensive biography of McQueen thus far, it tells his story from a tailor's apprentice on Savile Row to his seminal "bumster" trousers and on to his tragic end.
Rather than return home when the war ends, Yohan emigrates to a town on the coast of Brazil, where he becomes a tailor's apprentice, mending clothing, which he learned to do as a P.O.W.
Rather than become a tailor's apprentice, he decided to try his luck in Bombay, where he found work as a "graphics wallah" painting the vibrant billboards advertising Bollywood films.
Largely an autodidact, he never went to a university, instead became a tailor's apprentice after he finished school, turning eventually to the theater when he was accepted as a writing and acting trainee at the Royal Court.
Mr. Filomeno, a former tailor's apprentice, and Ms. Owens, who trained as a painter, have both done much to erode the distinction between the fine and the decorative arts.
He was already writing, and his first play, Don't Destroy Me – about a tailor's apprentice growing up in a rackety Jewish household – was produced at the New Lindsay club theatre in Notting Hill in 1956.
"So George got us all together and I remember him saying that we might think we were all writers but in fact John was an architect, Arnold a cook, I was a tailor's apprentice.
