Letter from the Founder
It’s a sad sign of the experience we’ve lived through when I find myself writing my second consecutive Founder’s letter in homage to a great man who has passed away. A collective sob was felt throughout the sartorial universe when we learned of Gigi Dalcuore’s death in February this year. We felt the loss keenly because, of course, the world would now be deprived of a great master, a man capable of that rare act of tailoring transubstantiation — of rendering life, dimension and sculptural form from what was once two-dimensional cloth. Dalcuore clothes were infused with anima, with a soul that was imparted by him through his shears as he cut each garment. But the hurt we experienced was far greater because our planet had lost a wonderful human…