The Third School: Why French Tailoring Beats Both Savile Row and Naples

The Third School: Why French Tailoring Beats Both Savile Row and Naples Savile Row built structure. Naples removed it. Paris did something else entirely. This is the story of the third school of tailoring — Cifonelli's hand-shaped "cigarette" shoulder, invented by Arturo Cifonelli after he left Rome for Paris in 1926; Camps de Luca's teardrop pocket and signature notch, born from a 1969 merger of two master tailors; and Francesco Smalto, the cutter who once talked his way into a Paris workshop by lying about his age, and built the largest commercial tailoring business Paris had ever seen. Along the way: how a 1933 house called Arnys ended up owned by LVMH, folded into Berluti in 2012, and what happened to the family names that didn't sell. A history of three tailors solving the same problem three different ways, in a city with a fraction of Savile Row's forty-four tailoring houses. #cifonelli #campsdeluca #francescosmalto #saviledrow #bespoketailoring #frenchtailoring #mensluxury #tailoringhistory #berluti #lvmh #menswear #luxurysuits 1. The Shoulder - Husbands Paris https://husbands-paris.com/en/blogs/journal/the-shoulder 2. Cifonelli et le prêt-à-porter https://cifonelli.com/blogs/news/cifonelli-et-le-pret-a-porter 3. La marque Cifonelli - Bonnegueule https://www.bonnegueule.us/en-us/blogs/marques/cifonelli 4. Lorenzo and Massimo Cifonelli - NUVO Magazine https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/autumn-2017/lorenzo-and-massimo-cifonelli 5. My Tailor Lives in Pa