Sleevehead

Enjoying your stay in Palermo? Don’t forget to expand your mind while traveling. Stop by the independent bookstore La Stanza di Carta across the street from the Church of St Cataldo and Santa Maria dell Ammiraglio.

If you speak a bit of Italian, be sure to say hello to the owner Piero and read more about the bookshop and Palermo’s tailors in my book (link in bio).

After my first visit years ago, I wrote that Sartoria Crimi was the “the fullest, most intact expression of a Sicilian tailoring house today”.

It still is. Two generations of a sartorial family - father, mother and son - are still working together as a team to make fine bespoke clothing in Palermo.

For more info, check out my profile of them in my new book (see link in bio)

Fitting with maestro Antolino - one of the very few tailors still active today who started in the “Golden Age” of Sicilian tailoring.

For more info, check out his profile in my new book (see link in bio).