Lessons from a Tailor

Entrepreneur Martin Greenfield's infectious passion and hopeful perspective bring his community and his employees more than just jobs.

More about Lessons from a Tailor from filmmaker Galen Summer

The inspiration for this film came directly from the man himself. When I first met Martin Greenfield at his factory, with the intention of interviewing him for a lifetime achievement award he was receiving for his efforts as an employer and business owner in Bushwick, Brooklyn, it became clear that there was more to his story than mere success in business.

Here was a man who had pulled himself up from tragedy and hardship, who had survived one of the most horrific events of the 20th century, the Nazi holocaust, and yet still possessed a lightness of spirit.

Here was a man who had mastered the art of the perfectly tailored, hand-made suit, and now that art was slowly being forgotten by the rest of the world.

Here was a man who at 80 years of age still seemed to be at the height of his powers, who possessed the confidence to dictate the style and fashions of the power elite, just as he had been doing for the past half a century.

It struck me as a unique opportunity to create a portrait of a person who had overcome great challenges in life, who had accumulated wisdom about clothes and about people, and who had become a humanitarian in the process.
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Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• family & society
• economic justice
• tailor
• brooklyn
• small business
• Holocaust
• Holocaust survivor
• entrepreneur
• Service Above Self

[bSchmizzle]

@softskullbubblebrain many old tailors will fit the clothes this way, as it is an old-fashioned fit.. it is tailored they way he likes it, just not as younger people today would have it..

[jjaramil2285]

Gentleman all the way!

[kaitoudark1]

This man has my respect. There aren't enough people like him. I'd personally like to meet him myself, because he seems to have so very much to say about his life, and about the world.

Originally i came here by clicking links about suit measuring tips, and because i wanted to learn about that. What i learned and heard here...well, that was a life lesson.

[TheRASL2011]

this is great!



[VictorsDown]

tailoring never even crossed my mind .. but this gentleman's passion about it, made me interested in it .

[VeronaCollections1]

Interesting video . . . Custom tailoring seems to be a dying skill.

[ultpbatfan]

i f*****g hate bufferring

[ultpbatfan]

cool gentleman

[MrForrest1991]

Awesome vid

[bobsoltys]

inspiring indeed. Thank you