KITON WAS FOUNDED IN 1968 TO CREATE HANDCRAFTED CLOTHING AND CONVEY A DEEP LOVE FOR DRESSING WELL. In Arzano, a small town on the outskirts of Naples, Ciro Paone began producing 50 garments a day in a small workshop. Within just 20 years, this workshop had grown into an 36,000-square-foot factory. Success was immediate: Kiton offered not only men’s jackets, but also shirts and ties, and the company had already grown to employ 150 people. Signs of this growth included the showroom in Milan, a city symbolic of a market that was increasingly focused on the brand, in addition to the maison’s U.S. headquarters in New York, providing a vantage point for capturing the evolution of style and taste worldwide.
