Men's tailoring, elegant and formal suits made to measure

HISTORY

a story of

TRADITION, PASSION AND INNOVATION

We are made for those who do not want to follow trends every six months but seek a timeless style and value tradition - the know-how passed down from father to son - capable of creating clothes by hand that last over time, because they are made with that passion and Italian knowledge of the past. We believe that high quality prevails over designer labels. The web allows us to be closer to all our friends.

a 60 year long history

THE ORIGINS

Luigi Gallo has a sixty-year long history, very old-fashioned. He comes from an invisible village in Basilicata, Roccanova di Potenza. Luigi Gallo arrives in Rome in 1957, with scissors in his suitcase and mended trousers. In those early years, he breathes Rome and the cinematic elegance that occasionally passes on the sidewalks of the center. He dreams of Cary Grant's trousers and Gary Cooper's two-button jackets. Over the years he gains experience in the laboratories of Domenico Caraceni and Angelo Litrico, the legend, from whom Gallo learns that the customer is right, but not always, and that it takes double excellence to dissuade, mastery to mend. The meeting with Saverio Ferragina, the press agent, then Marco Bellocchio and Vittorio Mezzogiorno: «Mezzogiorno was an extraordinary character. After the film with Bellocchio, I dressed him for La Piovra. And in twenty-four hours I made him a tuxedo to rush to Venice.

"Since then we became friends. I watched Giovanna, his daughter, grow up: when she won the David di Donatello, she wanted to wear her father's tuxedo. I took it all apart and remade it for her. When she saw herself in the mirror, she started crying and so did I, in front of this girl who was truly beautiful."

A good deal of cinema passes through Gallo's velvets. Michele Placido, Sergio Castellitto, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefano Accorsi, David Zard, Kabir Bedi, Omero Antonutti, his Atelier becomes a temple of style that leads him to meet and dress famous people such as Giuseppe Ungaretti, Christian Barnard, Giacomo Manzù, Emilio Colombo, Nikita Kruscev, Andrew Cuomo, John Wayne. He only needs scissors and an iron to transform even just three meters of fabric into a work of art as precious as a sculpture, in which each element is shaped by the cult of manufacturing and the exaltation of the final effect, to make the value of the custom creation unique, the fine fabrics become part of the perfect suit. His passion leads him to win recognition and merit from the highest institutions. He revolves around his history. "Once a famous tailor told me: "Happiness is in work, and a little in family". I have six children today and He who lived alone, was wrong about the proportions. The family is very much, the rest follows. In the end it is just about well-made clothes. "Right. Even if born noble, to compensate for those torn shorts.

third generation of craftsmen

MARCO GALLO

A few steps from Via Veneto and the suggestions that recall a legendary Italy, in Via Flavia the Sartoria Gallo, with its third generation of sewing artisans, is the reference point for elegance and quality. The needle and thread are the tools that have been tirelessly moving for sixty years, steps that are repeated over the years and tell of a daily passion reflected in the craft that Marco Gallo learned from an early age, when he began to frequent his father Luigi's workshop. Today, under his direction, the tailoring has maintained the inspiration imprinted by his father, who served many illustrious personalities from the world of entertainment, political institutions and even religious ones.

"After school - says Marco Gallo who studied in Rome at the Armando Diaz Institute (graduating as a fashion operator) and later at the European Chamber of Haute Couture - as a boy I would sit next to my father to learn his secrets, and my mother, to test me, would make me write my initials on the shirts. I still remember that when a customer came in I could guess whether he was wearing a suit made by my father or not. In this way I understood, almost for fun, that I could, one day, follow in my father's footsteps". And so it was: strong in the technical preparation learned in the Schools, in the internships with high fashion brands such as Gattinoni, Renato Balestra, but, in particular, from his father's mastery, Marco continues to propose the beauty of artfully made-to-measure, combining tradition with modernity and, even, with technological experimentation.

"I get a lot of satisfaction from creating unique clothes and accessories, I always try to create something that matches well with the character of each individual person and enhances their physical qualities with an appropriate cut. I am very attracted by new challenges, we were the first to receive, experiment and create with a fresh wool fabric patented by LoroPiana, a jacket-trouser suit, the lightest in the world, it is practically crease-proof. Even curled up and thrown haphazardly in a suitcase it doesn't crease."