Pino Peluso | 皮諾·佩盧索
Pino Peluso is an important young generation of Neapolitan tailoring. He creates sharp suits and coats for both man and woman. Beyond that, he is also the kind of tailor who loves challenges – making suits for a dwarf, catering an extremely odd body shape, and even making a wool coat for a lady who has allergic to wool.
The interview with Pino Peluso was taken during Sartoria Peluso’s Paris trunk show co-holding with Marol 1959, one of the finest shirt makers in the market.
A special thanks to Bo, the Managing Director of Moral 1959, without his help, the interview wouldn’t go this smooth.
A Traditional Neapolitan Approach
Pino’s grandmother was a shirt maker, followed by his father worked as a suit maker. It was a typical Neapolitan tailoring family from the old days. Pino was born in the same house where his family work. Being emerged in the environment of tailoring throughout his upbringing. “Tailoring was the second perfume that I smelled after my mother. ” Pino told me.
Pino’s master skills can trackback to his family tradition — a versatile approach. Different from being in a big house, where you usually see workers are more specialised on certain matters. While in the house that Pino grows up, everything is done in a rather traditional Neapolitan way: Pino remembers seeing his father working on all the pieces: suits, shirt, waistcoat, and trousers.
As Pino said, there are pros and cons of that approach:
For the good part, through this experience, he was able to learn all the aspects of tailoring and pick up different skills in a relatively short time. Because this was very natural for him. Otherwise, to learn each subject separately, from the jacket to the waistcoat to the pants, it might take someone many years.
Great philosophy, indeed I can agree…