Bombino

Domestico (1926). Men’s tailor. He learned the trade while still very young, in his home village, Ruvo di Puglia. In 1945 he arrived in Milan, where he opened a workshop on via Fiori Chari. His first clients were among the artists who frequented the Jamaica Bar in the Brera neighborhood of Milan, Gianni Dova, Guido and Sandro Somaré, Crippa, Andrea Cascella, the brothers Pomodoro, the photographer Fontana, the photographer Mulas, and the dandy Piero Sanjust di Teulada. He was successful and opened his first real tailor’s shop in 1961 at via Pontaccio 12. In 1971, Loris Abate, who was also his client, asked him to open a men’s department for custom-made clothes at Mila Schön, of which he is still in charge.