Fine handmade custom suits
The difference is always in the details. This is where reputations are earned, distinctions are made. This is where you separate those who do, and those who do it well.
At Antonacci, we believe that nothing distinguishes one more than the elegance of a fine, custom-fitted, handmade suit. We take pride in the tailor's craft, with a passion for impeccable quality in every single detail. From the finest fabrics and threads to old-world artistry and craftsmanship, we are meticulous about creating garments of the highest standards, and we understand the secrets of the perfect fit.
It takes our tailors up to twenty hours to produce one handmade suit, with strict quality control at every stage. There is no compromise, no cutting corners. Only a dedication to our craft and to creating the finest handmade garments to suit the individuality of every customer.
Antonacci uses the finest components in our suits. Here is a selection of items that make our suits superb.
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UNDER COLLAR
Origin: Italy
Purpose: gives shape and structure to the suit, colour is selected for desirable style
Material Contents: melton wool with wool canvas back -
THREAD
Origin: Germany
Source: Gütermann
Purpose: for hand-work, secures certain suit components.
Material Contents: silk -
SHOULDER PAD
Origin: Canada
Purpose: gives shape and structure to the suit, thickness is selected for desirable style
Material Contents: outer pocket is thin melton filled with wool batting -
SLEEVEHEAD
Origin: Italy
Source: Singular supplier in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Purpose: for structure and to retain shape
Material Contents: multi-layered; interior layer is wool + horsehair, outer layers are wool -
CANVAS
Origin: Italy
Source: Singular supplier in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Purpose: full front canvas for structure and to retain shape
Material Contents: multi-layered; interior layer is wool + horsehair, outer layers are wool
UNDER COLLAR
THREAD
SHOULDER PAD
SLEEVEHEAD
CANVAS
We work with the most established and respected mills in the United Kingdom and Italy. They are leaders in the textiles industry for more than 200 years in heritage and contemporary fabrics.
“A tuxedo is special. Refined. Elegant. The best are subtle in their details.
We layer on the silk & satin: trim, lapel, jetting which is all applied and finished by hand as the silk is too delicate for a machine.
The additional detail and handwork takes more care by our tailors but the perfect tux is worth the effort.”
Ettore (Hector) Macaluso (right)
Head Designer
Since he was a child in Palermo, Italy, Hector has been around mens fashion. His father was a tailor who ran a small shop and where his mother also worked. When Hector was 21 he came to Canada, learned English and went to New York City to study menswear design.
As Designer, Hector is the gentleman responsible for creating Antonacci's collection of pattern blocks. It's a labour of love: Hector creates patterns, grades each style with the help of digital technology, then tests the pattern, adjusts, finalizes for each custom suit. Each client is specific. To make the chosen pattern fit perfectly he wants to know if your posture is open or closed, are you stooped or do you stand erect, are your shoulders square or sloped? All these tiny adjustments make the garment 'tailored' to the individual."
Hector's attention to quality and detail throughout a suit's fabrication is the same as the care taken in his father's shop back in Sicily. With the same sensibility he embraces new technology: highly precise, computer controlled cutting techniques, software to perfectly align patterns between the parts, digital manipulation of pattern blocks. "I feel lucky," he says, "that I've experienced this transition in my career."
SAM MEKA (left), master tailor
Sam Meka
Master Tailor
Sam Meka started tailoring when he was a young boy. He worked at it in pieces: first sewing by hand, then making button holes, then pockets. He worked with his cousins in an uncle’s shop, producing 25 custom suits a week. “The mentality I grew up with,” says Sam, “Was to just learn. Absorb what was being offered. Make customers happy and never argue.”
Sam came to Canada and apprenticed further with a number of master tailors, perfecting the art of finishing, alterations and fitting a garment to the individual. For Sam it’s the finish and styling that gives the piece its look. A suit must work with your body – the style and cut should improve or highlight the customer’s attributes.
“I love this job. Even at ten years old, working part time, I loved learning about it step by step.”
Sebastian Garofalo
Operations Manager
Sebastian Garofalo will tell you the suits they make at Antonacci are garments of the quality your great-grandfather would have worn. “We don’t want to change a thing,” he says about the workmanship in their product. The quality of raw materials used in every suit starts from the purchases he makes: French and English-made cloth, horsehair canvas, cotton lining, even German-made silk thread.
His father was a tailor, his uncle was a tailor, his mother was a seamstress in Toronto and he learned the business by growing up in it. For twenty five years Sebastian has been with Antonacci, expanding his detailed knowledge of what comprises the best in menswear. Asked what is special about an Antonacci suit, Sebastian says, “Its got sex appeal, it’s crisp and clean, it doesn’t bubble or pucker.”
Sebastian is a man of fashion to the core: every year, he and his wife go to Paris, via Nice, to relax and see what’s happening at the heart of fashion.
Emma Tynan
Sales + Marketing Manager
Emma Tynan, a UK native, men’s fashion has always started with traditional tailoring. From Saville Row and the custom-made British suit, to the tweeds and mohair that the UK is so well known for, Britain represents the history of what is special about gentlemens garments.
If you think your suit can only be a shade of blue or gray in a worsted wool, think again. (What’s ‘worsted’? Patience. Emma will explain all). Cotton, jersey, cord, tweed, silk, chambray or a blend are the new starting points for a man looking for a wardrobe to express his personality and project his style. The fabrics Emma uses let the suit compliment a man’s colour, complexion and body type – which is what great clothes should always do.
Emma is a designer at heart, putting fit, fabric, colours and textures together in a manner that says everything from business to fun and all possibilities in between. She has spent her career promoting custom tailoring as the centrepiece of a refined wardrobe. “Wearing a custom Antonnaci suit shows everyone you know yourself and understand quality. It will make you comfortable in any setting.”
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Antonacci accepts custom orders from retailers throughout North America for both men and women. Trunk shows are also available. Please click here for wholesale inquiries.
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