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Brooklyn tailor made suits for Michael Jackson without seeing the star

It was the most off-the-wall job a Brooklyn tailor-to-the-stars had ever gotten. Bushwick's Martin Greenfield has fitted Paul Newman and Bill Clinton - but it didn't prepare him for working for Michael Jackson. It was a cloak-and-dagger operation. Greenfield, 80, wasn't allowed to meet the King of Pop. Handlers explained, "Michael doesn't do Brooklyn." He couldn't get measurements, had to use Jackson's stylist as a stand-in and had to work from headless photos of the star.

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Feeling For … Martin Greenfield

Feeling For … Martin Greenfield

Two weeks ago, I took some time to make a trip to Brooklyn to visit a tailoring company run by a man named Martin Greenfield. It was a hike, I got lost, but I finally found the brick factory in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Men's Style; Thinker, Tailor

Men's Style; Thinker, Tailor

HOUSED AT THE rear of Martin Greenfield's Brooklyn clothing plant is an informal archive, a sturdy steel rack that holds the tailor's interpretations of men's wear's past glories. There, sleeve by sleeve with a fancy top-stitched Western sport coat and a denim leisure suit hangs an old Eisenhower jacket.

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