Inside Men's Fashion House Kiton, Home of the $9,000 Suit
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In this week's Lap of Luxury, we visit Italian fashion brand Kiton. Never heard of it? When it comes to men's bespoke shirts and suits, Kiton is the best of the best plus one. In fact, that's the brand's motto.
As the president of Kiton USA, Antonio Paone says in Italian: Il meglio del meglio piu uno.
Kiton was founded in the 1950s in Naples, Italy, as a fabric merchant. In the 1960s, Antonio's uncle, Ciro Paone, transformed the brand into a tailoring business.
Five generations later, Kiton has grown enormously. A $40 million flagship store is located on 54th Street in New York City. More than 700 tailors work for the brand.
But quality fabrics and fine suiting are still the focus. Paone says you'll often see 500 tailors working by hand in the Kiton factory, but you'll never see a machine. Every Kiton suit is cut by hand, one by one, as suits were cut 50 years ago. Paone says the quality has not changed.
The Robb Report agrees. David Arnold, senior vice president at Robb Report, says that nobody surpasses Kiton in terms of menswear. In the June Best of the Best issue of the magazine, Kiton was awarded best suit for its handmade quality and attention to detail.
But that quality and attention will cost you. A basic bespoke suit at Kiton starts at $9,000. It's 100 percent wool, 200 grams, 14 micron. A 100 percent cashmere blue summer weight suit will also run about $9,000. The top level Vicuna fabric, 200 grams, will run $60,000.
Paone says that material is truly the best of the best plus one. If it sounds outrageously expensive, he suggests coming in, taking a jacket and trying it on. Paone says when customers walk around in Kiton suits, and take their time to really feel the fabrics, they understand the incredible quality.
Let's not forget about the custom shirts. They're also entirely made by hand. Customers can choose every detail: the color, buttons, threads, style and monogram. They start at $500 and run up to $1,200 for Sea Island cotton. The fabrics are all the best cottons, all Italian.
In fact the only thing at Kiton that isn't Italian is the name. Paone says Kiton comes from "chitone," which is a Greek name for the fine linen tunics the Ancient Greek people used to wear to formal parties.
--ALISON MORRIS
Truly the best of the best, first time a client gave me Kiton on consignment I got hooked, now I wish all I did was Kiton! I love it! thank you, from dd-threads luxury consignment
Those are some beautiful suits
D man xe
Where did you get it
Kiton and Brioni are the most classy and beautiful suits on planet Earth: just incomparable.
Real symbols of the luxury "Made in Italy" just like Ferrari, Riva, Bulgari or Sassicaia. Bravi!
Davide A. Visconti I have four of them
I've always had Brioni suits and I love them (I'm from Rome, so it's easy for me) but my brother had recently bought a Kiton suit in Naples and I was really shocked by its quality... I suspect that Kiton is even better than Brioni. What's your opinion?
Yes Kiton is much better
I take Oxxford OTR and MTM over them
Davide Ascanio Visconti-Borghese brioni is just a crap for rich corruptioners
You can get a bespoke suit for less that $9,000. And those tailors use cloth from the best British mills.
Nope, Kiton has its own wool mills that provide exclusively to them.
outstanding suits made by hand not mass produced very nice
I would gladly advertise for kiton
Very Nice
beautiful suits and blazers. Try Trillion in Palm Beach Florida for Kiton
kiton has their own shop in Palm Beach. $9000 is a joke for a factory made suit!
Kiton K is best
ludicrous price for a factory made suit! you could get a fully bespoke suit from a great tailor...cheaper!
Research on gold linen.
Italian fabrics, Savile Row tailoring (Andersen & Sheppard), and an American-cut. That's about as good as it gets for me. (Oh yeah, Kiton and E. Marinella ties from Naples.)
Was the male host also wearing a Kiton? That doesn't look very good on him.
The guy in charge had a dreadful suit. really awful fit and construction. Buy Kiton and you are a fool
I thought Brioni made the most expensive Men’s suits
Brioni is targeted more towards presidents and CEO's due to its more conservative approach while Kiton is targeted towards wealthier and more casual customers like corporation and sports team owners
No. Kiton is more expensive
Stick with Naples, Rome, Milan, Vienna and Paris.
All of their tailors are infinitely better than any found on Savile Row, which is over-padded and over-rated.
BS, all of those guys you mentioned respect Savile Row as their teachers.
Not KITON though that is for sure
Naples Rome Milan Vienna hahaha. The most over-rated cities in the world. Naples full garbage and rats everywhere. Rome is full of dogsiht montains on the streets, and Milan just simple dirty and ugly. London and the Svile Row are light years in front of them. This is the truth. Italy is dead.
@@TheReturnOfStephan1 Italian tailors are cheaper than English ones, mate. No one needs to promote Italian suits, cos no one cares. Savile Row rules as usual.
Now your talking .......................
I got a suit supply suit that will keep up on any day!!
Lmao yeah sureee
Any Kiton suit will look like trash if not tailored.
A Savile Row Suit in London will male you look perfect.
RTW will be superior to majority of RTW brands though. Some people can't put up with going back to the tailors for alterations over and over again.
ludicrous prices/ you can get a fully bespoke suit cheaper!
dont foreget a seem on 60k fabric
I would love to have a job, just advertising for Kiton napoli
hi guality
Stick with Saville Row
The guy in blue suit looks like a 14-years old boy who took father's suit
Why do the suits fit so badly. Stuff this nonsense. Get to Savile Row with your 9K and have a real suit made and some change to do something nice with
Its because the alter it to the customer taste. Cant be a seller and sell someone else your own taste....
Savile row still make the best suits of all... proper bespoke. This is high end ready to wear