"People talk about how it's hard to mix Italian and American, but I think it's easy," says Anotonio Ciongoli, the 31-year old creative director of Eidos. Sitting back in his chair in Eidos's midtown showroom, surrounded by phalanxes of suits, Ciongoli--bearded, irrepressibly jovial--is the young pontifice presiding over the marriage of an unlikely, but winning, couple: Neapolitan tailoring and American sportswear.

And it's all Ciongoli, who grew up an L.L. Bean devotee in Vermont, went to UCLA for communications, and designed skateboard shoes. But, "I wanted to do this," he says. A decade ago, he cold-called fashion brands until finally landing a gig designing accessories and childrens' clothes at preppy flag-bearer Vineyard Vines.

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