Farewell to Cesare Attolini, founder of the homonymous Neapolitan tailor shop. He was very popular in Hollywood as one of the last founding fathers of Neapolitan elegance and tailoring. Robert De Niro had honed his Italian by having fun talking to Attolini's tailors while choosing fabrics and models, but also Michael Douglas, who was bewitched by Naples and by an idea of style not replicable elsewhere, had often chosen Attolini. Al Pacino, who had chosen the Attolini maison for the stage clothes in the film "People I know", remained attached to the style of tailoring even in private life, just like Dustin Hoffmann and Denzel Washington.
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