Sarti d'Abruzzo. Le botteghe di ieri e oggi protagoniste del vestire maschile

This book retraces the history of the Abruzzo school of tailoring, which originated in the nineteenth century but "came of age" and achieved recognition in the 1920s.
Guido Vergani looks at the various exponents of this tradition, commencing with Domenico Caraceni (1880-1940), born at Ortona a Mare and "the most famous Italian tailor of his time" (who in the years between the wars "even succeeded in seducing the crowned heads of London, the Wasps of the United States and the stars of Hollywood"). He then moves on to Ciro Giuliano, Nazareno Fonticoli (1906-1981), founder of the Brioni tailoring house in Rome, Sandro Porfirio, Tommaso Nobili, Adriano Pallini, Giovanni Donatelli... There were many Abruzzo tailors, dozens and dozens of them, who set up "shop" in Rome, Milan, Turin... and others, such as the brothers Vincenzo and Vittorio Primavera, who made their reputation in Paris.
In the second part of the volume the author takes a closer look at the Brioni tailoring house, one of the most famous Italian names in men's fashion, which has been clothing celebrities from the worlds of politics, music, cinema and entertainment in its tuxedos, coats and suits ever since
the second half of the 1950s. The Sartoria Brioni demonstrates just how important and active the Abruzzo tradition of tailoring still is today.