The Rake

ALL IN HIS STRIDE

t was the chairman and chief executive of a global tech behemoth — a man famous for redesigning and marketing thousands of antiquated products — who worked the same magic on millennia of Zen philosophy by telling his legions of followers: “Do not try to do everything — do one thing well.” For us, the man who encapsulates this tenet with the most passion, tenacity and dignity can be found executing his craft on a day-today basis 6,350 miles away from Silicon Valley, in the labyrinthine, laundry-canopied alleyways of the — the less glam but equally prestigious, artisanally speaking, of the two tailoring neighbourhoods in Naples. Salvatore Ambrosi is the fourth generation of

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