Lansdale native Aleks Musika making a fashion statement
When you think haute couture, perhaps Paris comes to mind, but Lansdale?
As one-half of the New York-based menswear line, Musika Frère, (Aleks) Musika — pronounced Mu-see-ka — and his business partner, Davidson Petit-Frère, dressed Chadwick Boseman in chic cobalt for the actor’s Black Panther premiere earlier this year. They also outfitted Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in an olive green one-button for Power‘s Season 5 premiere, writes Elizabeth Wellington for philly.com.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z also made snazzy appearances in Musika Frère bespoke this year, too. Diddy in slick white for the Met Gala. His jacket was long. And the collar was round. Jay-Z received a Clive Davis Award at the pre-Grammy party in a velvet Musika Frère tuxedo, with black lapels. (I find this particularly noteworthy as both of these music moguls count menswear as part of their heady business portfolios.)
Musika grew up in Lansdale, the knee baby in a family of four children. His parents were both school teachers, so Musika’s introduction to fashion was through his older brother’s hand-me-downs. When he was 10, Musika wore one of his brother’s velvet-striped sweaters to school — his brother was a decade older, so the sweater was woefully out of style. He was teased mercilessly.
He took odd jobs to buy his own clothes, mowing lawns and raking leaves to earn shopping money. While he played basketball for North Penn High School, Musika worked for a local tailor, where he began learning the craft of menswear.
After graduating from West Chester University in 2003, he began working as a gym teacher before moving to Miami. He taught there for a while before managing an AllSaints store. One day, he waited on one of Tom Ford’s assistants, who was so impressed with Musika that he hired him as a Tom Ford made-to-measure suiting specialist.
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