ENGINEERED GARMENTS
Engineered Garments The name for Daiki Suzuki's men's-wear line came, appropriately enough, from one of his pattern makers. Impressed by the meticulousness of the plans for his first collection, she commented that the garments were not so much designed as engineered. Suzuki finds the complications that result from his obsession with American military uniforms, work wear and sporting apparel to be a pleasure. For him, there is Old World romance in personally overseeing the manufacturing process, which is one of the reasons that he, like the artist Ross Menuez, whose work he sells in his stores in Japan, appreciates New York’s garment center.