Martin Greenfield
is the owner of Martin Greenfield Clothiers, a Brooklyn-based company where
Greenfield has been making hand-tailored men’s suits for over sixty years. GQ
has called him “America’s greatest living tailor.” The New York Times has
hailed him as “the influential face of men’s fashion in New York City.” Reuters
named him “the most interesting man in the world.” Greenfield was born in
Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia. He and his family were rounded up in 1943 and brought
to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. After he was liberated from the
camp in 1945, he searched for his family for two years—only to discover they
had died in the camp. Greenfield immigrated to New York City at the age of nineteen
and started work sweeping the floor of GGG Clothing, a clothing manufacturer in
Brooklyn. Three decades later, he bought the factory from his employer and
renamed the company Martin Greenfield Clothiers. Now a celebrated leader of the
men’s fashion industry, Greenfield has designed custom suits for Presidents
Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, as well as
countless celebrities, including Paul Newman, Martin Scorsese, Denzel
Washington, Jimmy Fallon, and Leonardo DiCaprio. His company produces suit
lines for Donna Karan, Brooks Brothers, Rag & Bone, and Neiman Marcus, as
well as the wardrobes for critically acclaimed films and television shows like Wall
Street, Argo, and Boardwalk Empire.
