For the day you actually have
Two-piece, three-piece and dinner suits — drafted to your posture, shaped over a floating canvas, and finished by hand at our bench on West Adams.
A suit earns its place by disappearing. Not cloth with buttons on it — a paper pattern, a canvas chest, and a shoulder built around the way you stand.
What we make
One method, four ways to build it — the difference is what the day asks of you.
Two-piece
The spine of the wardrobe — jacket and trouser from one length, cut to sit down and stand back up clean.
Three-piece
A waistcoat drafted to meet the trouser cleanly, so the jacket can come off and nothing gives way.
Dinner suit
Silk-faced lapel, covered buttons, side-adjusters in place of belt loops — ventless, and properly black under warm light.
Suit with two trousers
A second trouser cut from the same length. Trousers give out long before the jacket does.
Every choice, made with you.
These get decided in front of the cloth at your fitting — each one changes how the suit behaves on you, not only how it photographs.
The chest is built,
not glued.
Your pattern is drafted from nothing — no block pulled off a shelf — with the balance corrected for a forward shoulder or a dropped one before scissors touch cloth. The chest carries a floating canvas, pad-stitched by hand through the lapel so the roll is shaped rather than pressed in; nothing is fused, and the shoulder is set by hand. Across 22+ hours the jacket is worked until it agrees with how you stand — which is why the collar stays on your neck when you turn your head, and why the jacket comes back to line the moment you get up.
The cloth decides the suit
Navy and charcoal solids, navy and grey sharkskin, mid-grey melange, slate, black, charcoal herringbone — the working spine of a suit wardrobe, from Loro Piana, Scabal, Dormeuil, Vitale Barberis Canonico, Drago, Reda and Dugdale. Handle the cloth at your fitting, and see it on the mannequin in our AI fitting room first — the drape, the scale of the pattern, on a suit, before anything is cut.
See the fabrics we work in →Where it lives
Three places the suit has to work.
The room
You walk in, sit down, and nothing needs adjusting — the suit stops being a variable.
The road
Overhead bin to boardroom — canvassed to recover its shape instead of holding the fold.
The evening
Black tie and the wedding — silk-faced lapels, no belt loops, a suit that outlives the day.
See it before it's cut
Start with a conversation — at our Chicago studio, at your office, or by video from anywhere.