Our Story

Because elegance is not about being noticed, it is about being remembered.

Cesare Sarti is the brainchild of Giuseppe Rapisarda, founder and current owner of the company. A great enthusiast of tailoring and sartorial fabrics, he always contributes his knowledge of the Italian tailoring market.

Giuseppe’s family history began in the footsteps of his father Gaetano, who opened a small craft store in Turin back in 1959.

Today that history is the driving force behind the entire brand ‘s expansion to Malta, Switzerland and Albania, maintaining constant relations with foreign markets over the years.

The expertise we can offer to our clients as Cesare Sarti thus derives first and foremost from a family passion and a specific training of its founder, which was then shared and passed on to all employees.

The service of custom tailoring, by its very nature, makes it necessary to be a constant consultant, as well as a craftsman, always present and reachable, in order to understand the needs and the use that will be made of the garments made.

Patterning and cutting are, after all, strictly personal and specific, what makes the final garment unique and unrepeatable.

Who is Giuseppe Rapisarda

The Cesare Sarti project was started by Giuseppe, who was thrust into the industry from a young age through the family business.

His journey into tailoring had already begun at the age of 16, a time when he was engaged in tailoring workshops first in Turin, Sicily and Catania.

With decades of Italian experience, it was then time to broaden his views, working abroad as a private tailor for prestigious business families in Malta.

Traveling to European territories also propelled him to Albania and Bulgaria, culminating in the opening of the tailor’s shop in Valletta in 2006, which marked the realization of his chameleon-like vision and purely artisanal vocation.

The project then expanded over the years: first to Lugano, downtown, and then to Malta, in Portomaso, next to the Hilton hotel building, which serves as an elegant backdrop to Cesare Sarti’s Maltese boutique.