“All those stitches are there for a reason,” says Paolo Matorano, looking over a client during a fitting for a bespoke jacket that is about halfway to completion. The jacket has lines of threads, each a different color, going in various “All directions across the garment. “They are literally telling the cloth where to go.”
Telling fabric to go where it should go is in the third-generation tailor’s blood. He’s only 31, but has been honing his craft for much of his life, formerly at Paul Stuart and Dunhill and since 2017 at Paolo Matorano Bespoke, on New York’s West 57th Street, a block from the Carnegie Club, where he often puffs cigars when not making customized suits and jackets. The latter take roughly 80 hours to make, involving three to…
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Cigar Aficionado (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023