My name is Roshan Melwani. I’m a third-generation manager at my family business, Sam’s Tailor. My father here, Manu, and my uncle here, Sham, co-founders along with my grandfather who isn’t around anymore. My grandfather started it in October 1957 here in Hong Kong, this very shop. My dad was born in India, and so is my grandfather, so is my uncle. My dad came over in ’57, so he was nine years old, and my uncle was a few years younger. It was a very historic partition back in 1947, that’s when my grandfather then came over to Hong Kong soon after that. And then once he had worked long enough and learned enough and earned enough, he established Sam’s Tailor. Actually, no formal tailoring training whatsoever. The business is very hands-on, you learn everything on the shop floor. It’s completely down to the amount of people that we see every day. We meet with 30 guys and girls at least every day, 30 new guys and girls, and we start making clothing for them, so you learn very, very, very fast. And if you don’t learn and if you don’t put the effort in, you figure it out very quickly as well. I think not everybody is after a 24-hour suit. We became famed for the 24-hour suit because we work with so many celebrities, whether they’re actors, sports stars, performing artists, politicians. You only really get one meeting with them; you’re lucky if you have more than one meeting with them. And in order to work with people like this, you have to finish in 24 hours, because they’re not in Hong Kong for more than two days. So we got pretty good at it a long time ago, and having met with all the stars that we’ve worked with over the years, we’ve managed to hone in our skills very well. But something you’re going to experience as well: we’ve been open for so long, 59 years is a lifetime, and like I said, our business spans three generations, and I have children now. So of course, anything and everything, cars, computers, mobile phones, suits, they evolve. I mean, hotels, airplanes, everything evolves. We are abreast of all fashion changes, fashion trends, what’s hot now, what’s mainstream, and what we think is going to be amazing tomorrow. So you come in and you lean on us, and we’ll give you the best possible advice. We’ll never push anything on you; we’ll ask you a bunch of questions, gauge your responses, and then advise you accordingly. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to recommend fabric to you and then go through styling. My uncle is a master measurer. He has a knack of just being able to measure anybody and boom, the suit fits. And then my father, who is the founding cutter of our company, will take you upstairs and show you how we cut the fabric, after which you’ll return downstairs and my uncle will give you a fitting. I think this blue, this high-sheen blue is ideal. You can use it for parties, you can use it for weddings, you can use it for business functions, you can use it for anything. You can also break up the parts really well; you can use the jacket with anything you wear. This is an English fabric manufactured probably in Huddersfield. So cut a piece of your fabric and put it on your file so you always remember what you’ve got. And done. I’ve spent a large part of the last few years pushing people outside the box and doing something a bit more contemporary. I think we’ve come full circle in very recent times with style: four functional cuffs, and we’ll have the buttons overlapping, kissing as we call it. So this completes the first phase. Let’s now go watch my dad, the master, in action upstairs as he cuts your fabric. And this is a jacket fully canvassed, which is done by hand. And in this workshop we don’t keep any glue, all made by hand. There’ll be a lot of hands involved in a few machines, but we’ll get it, it will be amazing. It’s fun, it’s a cool process. People have worked in my workshop for so long, regardless of me personally, people have worked in this industry for so long. My tailors, they have been tailors for 30 years, tailors for 40 years, tailors for 50 years, tailors for 60 years. 70-something years old, I have an 80-year-old tailor, I have multiple 80-year-old tailors who have been tailoring for 60 years, longer than most people are alive, you know what I’m saying? So it’s got to be fun for them to have been doing it that long.