Martin Greenfield (born Maxmilian Grünfeld; August 9, 1928 – March 20, 2024) was an American master tailor, based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in men's suits.
His company, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, also has a white-label business, fashioning men's suits for clothing lines DKNY and Rag & Bone and the television show Boardwalk Empire.
[2] Greenfield was born on August 9, 1928,[3][4] to a Jewish family in Pavlovo,[2] a small village located in Carpathian Ruthenia, on the southeastern tip of Czechoslovakia in what is now Ukraine.
All were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp,[5] where his two sisters, infant brother, and grandparents were immediately sent to the gas chamber, followed shortly after by his mother, who was unable to let go of her baby.
Greenfield's father died shortly before Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet soldiers in January 1945, leaving him the only member of his family to survive the war.
[5] Greenfield's clientele included U.S. presidents Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump; General Colin Powell, celebrities Paul Newman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Johnny Depp, and Ben Affleck, conductor Gilbert Levine, Cardinal Edward Egan, athletes Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Wayne Gretzky and New York City political figures Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly.
[2][5][10] Greenfield and his company have served as the tailor for men's suits for fashion lines including DKNY, Brooks Brothers, Neiman Marcus, and Rag & Bone.