Who makes and how much does a Trump suit cost?
Since 2004, the president of the United States has been wearing tailored suits by the luxury brand Brioni.
Although it was Melania Trump, in her baby blue dress signed by Ralph Lauren, who overshadowed and took the most applause on the day of her husband's inauguration as president of the United States, the styling of Donald Trump, Although more attention is always paid to what he says verbally, it also did not go unnoticed.
Fashion and tailoring experts assure that the Republican president will go down in history, due to far-reaching political disasters, but he will also contribute in the fashion sector to destroy the conventional and elegant business suit.
The American press has been primed with Trump's way of dressing, which they say has a skill: making any suit, no matter how expensive, look cheap. And they blame that the choice of fabrics, with too many brightness, is not usually the most successful.
But if there is a firm that the president of the United States trusts, as confirmed by one of the spokespersons of her electoral campaign, Hope Hicks, to The New York Times, it is in Brioni. And you have seen this Italian firm for years, at least since 2004, when he recognized in the book Trump: Think Like a Billionaire, that the brand lent him suits for the television show The Apprentice.
This detail has not gone unnoticed in the United States, where criticism has also rained down for choosing a European brand, instead of betting on a local firm, and favoring job creation. On occasion, he has also worn suits by Martin Greenfield Clothiers, a Brooklyn tailor known for dressing Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
The truth is that Brioni, considered the Ferrari of tailored suits, has always been one of the preferred firms of leaders and businessmen from around the world. In the list of clients, although the firm is discreet when it comes to naming names, one of the most elegant fictional characters, James Bond, was for years until he was relieved as head designer in Quantum of Solace, played by Daniel Craig , by Texan designer Tom Ford.
The Spanish Amancio Ortega, the fourth richest man in the world, according to yesterday's price from Bloomberg and Forbes, is used to wearing Brioni. This was stated in an interview with CincoDÃas, the one who was CEO of the firm for years, Umberto Angeloni, now responsible for the Caruso brand, who also revealed that when the designer John Galliano was appointed sir by the Queen of England, he did not He dressed in Dior, the brand he worked for, but instead sported a Brioni jacket.
The firm began in 1945, when the tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and the businessman Gaetano Savini opened a workshop on Via Barberini (Rome). He distinguished himself by making by hand, stitch by stitch, more than 6,000 in each suit, and made to measure. The result, today, continues to be a different suit for each client, starting at 3,000 euros.
The fabrics it works with are exclusive and at least 22 hours are invested in each piece. Since 2011, Brioni is part of the business conglomerate of French luxury firms Kering, formerly PPR, the acronym for Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, created by businessman François Pinault, married to Mexican actress Salma Hayek.
One of Brioni's main contributions to the tailoring sector was the creation in 1986 of an international school to train professionals.
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