![]() Mike Sard: I don’t think there was any one moment-it kind of snuck up on me. What was the exact moment you knew Tombolo had gone big? When we collaborate with an artist we love, we hand the reins to them entirely and our brand community is given a completely fresh perspective. In addition to our own musings, sometimes we outsource the inspiration altogether and leave it to the real experts. The real magic happens when you mix and match from disparate places - picture a salty Down East New Englander in Amalfi, a Palm Springs pool partier in Oaxaca, or a 1970s New Yorker in the Polynesian islands. Give us a quick list of your fashion inspirations and muses-from history, literature, pop culture or beyond.Ĭhris Galasso: It’s a pretty eclectic grab bag of references: vintage menu, postcard and matchbook art from around the world mid-century municipal uniforms, NBA warm-up jerseys, and cycling tops old yacht club burgees Asafo flags and beyond. The adobe-pink of the ‘Gusanito!’ just somehow works with the agave theme of the shirt. Our customer often gravitates towards earthier colors-more greens, browns, and beiges- and towards colors that suit the motif in particular. None of those rules of thumb necessarily holds true in Tombolo-land. ‘Color proliferation’ is supposed to work, where once you have a hit, you just run it in a half-dozen other colorways. ![]() Something I really love about our customer is how unexpected a shirt’s popularity can be and how much it flouts some of the conventional wisdom in our industry regarding color and ‘wearability.’ Blue is supposed to sell the best. It probably won’t reign forever, but nothing has knocked it out yet. Mike Sard: Ever since it launched, the ‘Gusanito!’ Cabana has been the heavyweight champion. What’s the most popular item in your collection? I was lucky enough to make the leap from getting dressed by my mother to getting dressed by my business partner with very little gap in between. I’ll just say… when I dressed myself things didn’t go so well. If a Canadian tuxedo is denim on denim, the Michael Tuxedo was orange on orange. He was also really enamored with the color orange. He wore ill-fitting, scraggly clothes and he had a habit of chewing on his shirt collars until the age of 8, so there was a frayed sadness to his wardrobe as well… like a part-time clown who hadn’t landed a gig in a long, long time. Mike had a…peculiar dress sense as a young boy. Who was the better dresser?Ĭhris Galasso: I like long answers. You’ve known each other since you were kids. The 'Vongole!' Cabana shirt from Tombolo Tombolo
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