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Sailor tailor

By European standards, the Swiss city of Lugano is about as far from the sea as you can get, but it is here you will find Paolo Pontiggia (pictured below left), tailor to the owners of some of the world’s greatest superyachts.

Born in Italy, Pontiggia’s family had originally been silk weavers on the shores of

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