A Visit to Nino Crovato--Illustrated

[Mark Seitelman]

Last Saturday I visited Nino Crovato with fellow member, Dr. Terry Teplitz, who came for a fitting of a couple of suits. Another, member, Joel Kalish happened to drop-in.

Zegnamtl graciously posted the photos under the East Coast Photojournal.

Nino Crovato's shop is located upstairs in a Madison Avenue office building. His workshop and showroom are in the same suite. The workshop is in a separate, large room from the two "customer's rooms" in the front, however, there is no clear separation of the customer from the workroom. Customers view their suits in progress and chat with Mr. Crovato's tailors. His tailors do all of the work "in-house."

Mr. Crovato was born and raised in Palmero. He started sewing at the age of 7, and he was making suits by the age of 14. He attended tailoring academy at about 16 years of age. He indicated that his experience was typical of southern Italian tailors.

His customers include business, cultural, and political leaders. His most celebrated customer is David Letterman. Mr. Crovato makes four suits a month for Mr. Letterman. The cloth and styling are chosen by Mr. Letterman's two assistants. There are no try-ons; finished suits are delivered to the television studio. He meets Mr. Letterman about twice a year. Occasionally, Mr. Crovato visits the CBS studio during a show and stands in the wings to see how his suits "perform" when Mr. Letterman entertains.

Mr. Crovato is a very warm, gracious, and pleasant man. I observed this while he was working with Dr. Teplitz. Based on my observations Mr. Crovato is very proud of his work. He is very happy when the work is excellent and when the customer is pleased and appreciates the work. I think that Mr. Crovato's smile was larger than Dr. Teplitz's when the try-on fit perfectly.

[Mark Seitelman]

Oops!

I misspelled Mr. Corvato's name.

It's NINO CORVATO.

There appears to be no edit function so that I can clean-up the spelling.

I'm writing CORVATO 100 times on the blackboard.

Sorry!