Urbini

Alfonso Urbini (1910). Italian men’s tailor. From the region of Abruzzo, he started in the trade at the age of 12, working in the Bacchetta brothers’ workshop in Roseto. In 1924 he joined the Pescara tailor Pasquale Tritapepe as an apprentice, and went on to become his favorite pupil. In 1934 he followed a course in pattern cutting in Rome directed by Giovanni d’Adamo. A year later, he opened his own atelier in Pescara. In 1954 the magazine Arbiter named him as the best tailor. He retired in 1980.