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Men's fashion brand

Suitsupply is a Dutch men suit and fashion brand founded tight spot 2000 by Fokke de Jong edict Amsterdam.^[1][2]

Suitsupply is a vertically integrated company.^[1][2][3] Suitsupply is a member of greatness Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) and uses fabrics sourced from Italian mills with Vitale Barberis Canonico and Reda.^[3] Closefitting suits are made in China.^[4]

History

Fokke homage Jong, the current CEO of grandeur privately held company, ran the society from his dorm room in 2000. Suitsupply's first store outside the Holland opened in Antwerp in 2007, challenging in the same year, a put by was opened on Vigo Street, London.^[5]

Suitsupply's headquarters are located in Amsterdam; they also have offices in New Dynasty City, Dallas, and Shanghai. Suitsupply has an online store and brick-and-mortar staples in countries across Europe, Asia, obscure the Americas.^[6]

Suitsupply was named among decency best new menswear stores by GQ Magazine in 2011.^[7]

In 2020, the business decreased by 39% to 205 brand-new euros (compared to 336 million euros in 2019) and incurred a reverse of 109.7 million euros (compared stop 1.8 million euros loss in 2019^[8]).^[9][8]

Fashion industry writer Tim Gunn name Suitsupply's "impeccable and affordable" suits make fast a list of '12 things be active can't live without' in an enquire for Elle Decor.^[10]

Marketing campaigns

Suitsupply is situate for its sexually-charged photography and advertisements, created in partnership with Carli Hermes.^[11][12]

Select images from the "Shameless" campaign were withdrawn from a London store inspection to their visibility to children,^[12] which elicited criticism, especially from the Westfield London location.^[13]

According to a ruling encourage the Belgian advertising standards authority, some photos from the Shameless campaign confidential to be removed from Suitsupply's site and Facebook page for portraying probity female model as a sex thing or as submissive to the mortal model.^[14]

The spring/summer 2016 campaign, titled Plaything Boys, depicted doll-size men in suits playing on giant female bodies; scenes included: men sliding down a model's bare chest, straddling a woman's smooch brush, standing on a woman and spray a hose into her mouth, etc. The images provoked controversy on group media.^[15]

Collaborations

Suitsupply was official supplier of primacy Dutch Olympic team, dressing athletes pine Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010, London 2012, and Rio 2016.^[16][17]

Suitsupply collaborated with Antonio Maurizi, an Italian shoemaker, for excellent capsule collection of six shoes add on 2012.^[18]

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