Blasi

Angelo Blasi (1907-1996). was a tailor from Naples. Educated in the “school” of Renato De Nicola, he opened his first atelier in the 1920s. The workshop was located in via Calabritto, along the promenade which from Chiaia and Piazza dei Martiri leads to the Villa Comunale and the seafront. The accuracy and elegance of his cutting made Blasi, in the period between the two world wars, a very prestigious tailor who counted among his clients the members of Neapolitan high society. As with many of his colleagues, almost all educated in the workshops of the great tailoring masters such as Morziello and Gallo, De Nicola was above all a very sensible and expert cloth cutter, able to adapt the strict dictates of Anglo-Saxon fashion to the needs and tastes of his clientele. It was his son Nicola (1936), however, who brought the family business into the international market after World War II. During the 1950s, the workshop had about fifty workers who produced for a clientele that ranged from the U.S. to Japan. Starting in the 1960s, the firm sold clothes manufactured by various international companies alongside its own products, in an expanded number of shops. Today, the owner of the company is the founder’s nephew, Angelo Blasi (1962).