From Naples to New York — and Back to You

If you’ve been here long enough, you know that every six months I travel to New York and Chicago for trade shows.

New York is an intimate gathering of custom clothiers, makers and tailors who live and breathe this craft. Chicago, on the other hand, is called the Chicago Collective. Imagine every brand under the sun, from Hugo Boss and Barbour to Dapper Classic Socks, set up in booths that range from the size of a closet to bigger than a house.

I attend to help my factory as a representative of the company. I think it’s a testimony to my commitment to both the product and the people who make it that I take the time to promote them, even if it means helping so-called “competitors.” I’ve never seen anyone as competition. If a brand sees someone that way, that’s more a reflection on them, not the other way around.

This season’s highlight was the introduction of a new fabric house: Ariston. Their story is one worth telling:

“Around the beginning of the ‘900 Ferdinando Imparato decided to tie its fate to fabrics.
It was a pioneering era when there were no clothing factories but only tailors to dress demanding clientele.
After nearly a century and four generations of uninterrupted activity Imparato spa has moved the headquarter from Naples city center to the Cis Logistic center in Nola, a logistic site unmatched in Europe.
Our customers have evolved over the past decades from crafts to clothing factory to return, in recent years, to those entrepreneurial reality that, while using modern technologies, focus its strategy, not on the number of garments produced, but on the quality and personalization of the clothes.
Much of the turnover is now produced on foreign markets, a challenge that we undertake is to strengthen the international distribution of our fabrics and our cooperation with a small group of qualified partners.”

For me, this is exactly what slow fashion should be—craft rooted in heritage, brought forward through thoughtful innovation.

Let’s start your Autumn wardrobe together. We’ve got the fabrics, the fit, and the story to make something that’s entirely yours.

📅 Book your consultation today, and let’s create something that will last decades.