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Prices are up. Way up.

In this episode, I dive into the world I know best — luxury menswear — and talk about what’s really going on behind those skyrocketing suit prices.

From brands I love and have worked with—Brioni, Kiton, Tom Ford, Canali, and Brunello Cucinelli—I give you an honest, insider’s take on what’s changed over the years, how the product has evolved, and whether these $10K+ suits are still worth it.

You’ll hear personal stories, insights from inside the industry, and a true story involving none other than Alec Baldwin, told just the way it happened. If you’re into tailored clothing, Italian craftsmanship, or just wondering if high-end fashion has lost its mind—this one’s for you.

🎙️ Topics:

Why prices have increased so dramatically

What still makes these brands special

How luxury tailoring has shifted post-pandemic

Real talk about value, quality, and branding today

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Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

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I’ve been going to Pitti Uomo in Florence for over 30 years — and it still gives me that same feeling every time I walk through the gates.

In this episode, I’m sharing what Pitti means to me as someone who’s spent a lifetime in menswear — from growing up in my family’s retail stores to now running my own custom clothing business. I talk about how the show has changed (and how it hasn’t), the people you meet, the fabric houses I’ve worked with for decades, and why true style always comes back to authenticity.

Whether you’ve been to Pitti or dream of going one day, I hope this gives you a sense of what it’s like — not just the suits and style, but the soul of it.

Thanks for listening —

Philip

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Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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Take a walk with me through New York’s Upper West Side in the rain — no script, just real conversation. In this episode, I talk about the old Cafe Lalo, my years living on Riverside Drive, NYC’s changing neighborhoods, and what makes the West Side feel different. You’ll hear about:

• My stops at classic places like H&H Bagels and Barney Greengrass
• Tales of sending bagels nationwide during my Periscope days
• Real stories from my time on Madison and Fifth Avenue running multi-floor menswear stores
• Custom tailoring, $695 raincoats, and what’s coming this fall/winter
• Observations on the state of retail post-COVID — what’s real and what’s hype
• Getting caught in the rain in a lightweight shell coat (with no umbrella, of course)

This is a stream-of-consciousness walk through Manhattan — raw, real, and full of New York character.

🎧 Audio recorded live on TikTok

📍 Route: From Amsterdam & 86th → Central Park Transverse

🎙️ Hosted by Philip Pravda of Suitcafe

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Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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Walk with me through the streets of Midtown Manhattan — just blocks from where I ran custom clothing stores on Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, some of the most expensive retail real estate in the world. This is a raw, live-recorded podcast from a New York City sidewalk, where I reflect on decades in fashion, retail, and custom menswear.

From the story behind my $695 handmade raincoats to tales of $40,000 suits, vintage rent prices on Fifth Avenue, and my family’s generational roots in the clothing industry — this is the unfiltered perspective of a lifelong menswear entrepreneur. We talk about:

🗽 Life in New York’s Madison Ave & Fifth Ave Midtown

🧵 The process behind selling custom-made suits

🇮🇹 Italian mills, mink-lined coats & real tailoring versus made-in-China hype

📈 Pricing, tariffs, and why quality wins over marketing

📍 Flashbacks to former stores on Madison Ave and stories from 47th Street’s diamond dealers

💼 Doing business online, by appointment, and connecting with clients across the country

👞 A shoutout to new burnished leather shoes and style tips for dressing in the city

🎙️ Why I started this podcast: to show how anything “that’s been done before” can be done better

This isn’t polished, filtered content. It’s storytelling from the sidewalk, mixed with business wisdom and street-smart style.

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📆 Recorded live: May 6, 2025

📱 Originally streamed via TikTok Live

🎧 Podcast by: Suitcafe

🎙️ Podcast Series: It’s All Been Done Before

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Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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In this episode, recorded live on TikTok, I share a real-world look at the clothing business — from managing production challenges to dealing with unexpected client issues.

I talk about working with custom orders for high-profile clients, including a story about Sylvester Stallone’s Tulsa King suit fitting problems during filming in New York.

I also dive into stories from the retail side: dealing with stolen credit cards, shoplifting incidents, and the realities no one tells you about running a customer-facing business.

Whether you’re in fashion, retail, entrepreneurship, or just curious about the true behind-the-scenes experience, you’ll find honest lessons, unexpected stories, and insights you won’t hear anywhere else.

Follow along for unfiltered talk about craftsmanship, resilience, and building a business when the unexpected is just part of the job.

• clothing business
• Sylvester Stallone
• Tulsa King
• custom suits
• shoplifting stories
• stolen credit cards
• retail life
• small business owner
• fashion industry
• entrepreneurship journey

Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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On this episode of It’s All Been Done Before, we take you behind the scenes of our 4-hour TikTok Live Stream where we officially drop the brand-new Cashlana suit—a luxurious blend of Super 150s wool and cashmere—at just $495, with an exclusive $100 off using code CASH100.

Throughout the live, we take real-time questions from viewers and dive into everything menswear—from custom suit construction to top-tier Italian labels like Zegna, Brioni, Canali, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, and Tom Ford. We also preview fresh spring/summer swatches, including new Irish linens, dynamic wrinkle-resistant linens, and other standout seasonal fabrics.

If you’re into tailoring, fabric geekery, or just love a good fashion convo, this one’s for you.

🧵 Tailoring. Talk. TikTok energy. It’s all been done before—but not like this.

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Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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Our guest Massimo Pirrone, gained a large following on Instagram @pirronemassimo to the tune of 137,000 followers as of this podcast. His custom made menswear shop in Antwerp, Belgium prides itself on handmade Italian workmanship from his lab in Puglia, Italy. 
Everyday he drinks his "risretto" short shot espresso in front of his shop on his Instagram reels and gives a daily lesson of positivity. 
In this the first episode of season two of "Its All Been Done Before", learn how Massimo has cultivated a clientele in Belgium for his handmade Italian clothing. How did he find himself in Antwerp and not Italy? Explore his new lab in Puglia as he expands his business with more tailors that are becoming more difficult to find and most importantly learn about the best Italian mills for fabrics and the differences between fabrics for different seasons. We also discuss the age old question: Single Breasted or Double Breasted? What do you prefer?

Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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Fabio Attanasio joins us from his home in the city of Milan, Italy.  Born in Naples and educated as an attorney, Fabio was drawn to follow his passion in the men's custom tailoring business. Having been fascinated with custom tailor shops over the years he built an international blog searching out tailoring houses around Europe: Italy, Spain England and France. His blog became so popular that tailors and international luxury brands began to seek him out to write about their products. 
His journey has taken him around the planet and he has just published his first book, "Scent Of Tailoring Vol. 1".  Learn how he started knocking on doors and how he stayed the course in creating his multiple collections of shoes, eyewear and a cashmere knit brand all with the creativity, quality and workmanship Italian artisans are known for. 

Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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Wayne Schneider hustles. I know him from his large Instagram account with over 110,000 followers. His content is what is intriguing. Wayne is a car guy. That means at any time a Lambo Urus, or Ferrari can show up on his account. Not to mention about 10 Aston Martins he sold to some of his followers. Cars however is only one of his passions. Wayne and his brand "PCNY" has used his love of cars to feed ten's of thousands of homeless and hungry in the streets of New York City with his weekly "PCNY In The Streets" gourmet food buffet outside Madison Square Garden. Rain, shine, hot or cold Wayne is there with exotic cars and tons of real hot food created by his friends at some of the top restaurants in the city. All free for those in need. His turkey drive on Thanksgiving Day helps more than 25,000 families and his book bag drive gets over 1000 kids needed school supplies.
In our real time discussion, while Wayne was at work in his Yonkers body shop, we discussed how this journey began and how it went from trying to build a business for himself and his brother into having that business and giving back to the community where he lives and beyond. 
If you hear a few brief interruptions, remember, Wayne was at work and the customer always comes first. 

Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com

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In Episode 4 of "Its All Been Done Before" we meet Charlie Marcelin of CRM Jewelers run a family business. With his father Carlos, the founder, Charlie works daily along with other relatives in their boutique in Miami Florida. They specialize in the  ultra luxury high end watch and jewelry market. Their main brands are Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe and Richard Mille. 

After working together for about 7 years in their current location, the business has been expanding quickly due to their social media exposure. The You Tube channel has almost 400,000 subscribers and they also have a growing presence on Instagram. This has allowed customers to find them from the world over and make their luxury watch purchases. 

Listen to how Charlie has learned the business from his father.  How the current watch market is exploding with new clients and high prices. How Charlie and his Dad work together to give top customer service to all that walk into their store or through the thousands of texts and messages they receive from fans of the channel. Most importantly is their work ethic and how the family always comes first. Of course living in Miami there is always time for fun and that shows through on their weekly You Tube uploads. 

Watch this episode on YouTube @suitcafe channel. https://youtu.be/fSQbncHakmc

Meet Your Host: Philip Pravda

Philip Pravda, founder of SuitCafe.com, is a seasoned menswear expert with over 35 years in the business and a family legacy dating back to 1908, when his ancestors first started selling men’s clothing in New York. His passion for luxury fashion, fine tailoring, and craftsmanship has made him a respected voice in the industry.

Philip’s expertise extends beyond traditional menswear—his new collection includes handmade shoes and sneakers from Spain, fully customizable online, along with silk neckwear, pocket squares, and genuine crocodile belts. Each piece reflects his commitment to quality, elegance, and modern customization.

Follow Philip on social media (@suitcafe on all platforms, especially YouTube & Instagram) for exclusive content on luxury fabrics, tailoring, and the ever-evolving menswear industry.

Explore the collection at https://suitcafe.com