Just over a decade ago, Vicki Vasilopoulos made a dramatic change in her career path and left fashion journalism to transition into documentary filmmaking. Her first movie, "Men of the Cloth," marries both her passions. It features an up-close-and-personal insight into the lives and work of Italian master tailors Nino Corvato, Joe Centofanti and Checchino Fonticoli.

The film shows that the greatest fear among these Old World craftsmen is that the art they have perfected will die with their generation. But "Men of the Cloth" offers hope for the future by introducing the audience to Joe Genuardi, a young tailoring apprentice who learned the craft at the feet of Centofanti and is now working for Martin Greenfield in New York.

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