12 May 2026
Don't Tell Wardrobe
Every pair of sample trousers is hemmed for a man who doesn't exist. So I travel with a needle, and for six years nobody noticed.
From the workroom of
Arman Kashani
Menswear & Editorial Model
Milan, Italy Fittings by appointment
Lot 001 — cut & sewn in Milan
The workroom
I learned to thread a needle before I learned to ride a bicycle. My grandfather kept a tailor shop off Ferdowsi Street in Tehran, and I grew up underneath his cutting table - literally, that's where the off-cuts fell, and whoever sat down there sorted them by weight. By ten I could sew a straight seam. By fourteen I could name a wool's weight by rolling it between two fingers, a party trick I have never once been asked to perform at a party. Modelling found me years later, at a friend's lookbook shoot in Milan. The shop found me first, and it still runs everything I do.
The order book
Recent commissions
Tailoring taught me the things castings can't. I know where a jacket wants to break at the shoulder, why trousers move differently half a centimetre shorter, and how to stand so a garment shows its cut instead of my opinion of myself. Photographers tell me I don't fight the clothes. That's because I know what the person who made them wanted them to do - for most of my life, I was that person, kneeling on the floor with pins in my mouth. On set, patience is the whole job: hold the line of the seam, wait for the light, don't rush the cloth.
No. 01 Su Misura Campaign 2026
No. 02 The Unstructured Issue 2026
No. 03 Linen, Unlined 2026
No. 04 Winter Capsule 2025
Off-cuts
Notes from the bench
27 January 2026
My Grandfather's Thimble
It's brass, dented on one side, slightly too big for my finger, and it has been to more fashion capitals than most editors.
8 October 2025
Who's Wearing Whom
You can always tell, in a photograph, whether the man is wearing the suit or the suit is wearing the man. The difference is about four millimetres.
The next commission
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