Enter Garçon Couture, the debonair menswear line founded in 2015 by Jean Francillon and Ilbert J. Sanchez.

As former roommates at SUNY Cobleskill in the mid-aughties, the duo built on their mutual love for fashion to tailor bespoke suits for the new millennial man.

With showrooms in Miami and mid-Manhattan, Garçon Couture “helps men communicate to the world about their individuality, style and success through accessories, fit and styling.”

Through surgical masks and social distancing, EBONY still caught up with the founders in Harlem to be fitted for a tuxedo and talk black men’s fashion in the new Roaring ’20s.

I made the decision to transition into fine menswear, with a mission of first styling, followed by designing dapper looks for men in the New York City area.