Julien de Luca is the scion of one of France’s great tailoring dynasties, Camps de Luca, famous for dressing King Hassan II of Morocco, the Shah of Iran and much of the Saudi royal family. But when he was young he was told by his grandfather there was no future in the family business; tailoring in France was over, crushed by fast fashion, and he would need to find himself a new career. The grandson dutifully became a stockbroker in London. Then, four years ago, he got a call: maybe business was not so dead after all. Did he want to come back to the family firm? “I decided to put my faith in tailoring,” says de Luca.
朱利安•德盧卡(Julien de Luca)是法國手工定製名店Camps de Luca的孫子，Camps de Luca爲世人稱道的是曾爲摩洛哥國王哈桑二世(King Hassan II of Morocco)、伊朗國王(Shah of Iran)以及沙烏地王室成員定做服裝。但他小的時候，祖父曾對他說家庭裁縫店前景渺茫，法國裁縫業因受到快速流行服裝的擠壓已經風光不在，要他找一份新的職業謀生。朱利安•德盧卡聽從了祖父的教誨，到倫敦當了一名股票經紀人。然而四年前，他接到一個電話：也許這個行當還不是希望全無。問他想不想回到家族的裁縫店？「我下定決心把寶押到裁縫店，」德盧卡說。