{"id":21597,"date":"2021-09-02T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/?p=21597"},"modified":"2021-09-02T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:55:29","slug":"how-damir-mateskovic-created-fidelio-no1-brand-of-handmade-suits-in-croatia-and-this-part-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/en\/2021\/09\/how-damir-mateskovic-created-fidelio-no1-brand-of-handmade-suits-in-croatia-and-this-part-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"How Damir Mate\u0161kovi\u0107 created FIDELIO, No1 brand of handmade suits in Croatia and this part of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, the King of Potatoes in Rijeka and the owner of Croatian most famous franchise “Surf \u2018n\u2019 Fries<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u201d, Andrija \u010colak, introduced me to Damir Mate\u0161kovi\u0107, the owner of<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Fidelio Tailor<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, No1 brand of tailor-made handmade suits in Croatia and this part of Europe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Damir<\/span> and his wife Ines came from Rijeka<\/span> to Zagreb, so I decided to take the opportunity to do an interview with a young gentleman. Not to talk on an empty stomach, I invited him to join me with Ines for Saturday lunch at Zagreb’s Michelin star restaurant<\/span> Noel<\/strong><\/a>. I can\u2019t call an entrepreneur who makes tailor-made suits to kebabs. I’m not an orphan. My arm is short but wide. We started modestly with a bottle of Ferrari champagne. New normal \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Damir Mate\u0161kovi\u0107 & Ines Mati\u0107 Mate\u0161kovi\u0107 \u2013 Fidelio Tailor \u2013 Noel restaurant
Photo: @DearLeaderJoe, Flash.hr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Everyone normal wants a job in a state-owned company (secure salary, pension, Christmas bonus\u2026), but you have decided to throw yourself into private waters. Are you a masochist? Do you like to live on the edge? Admit it right now and I’ll call my uncle in the post office to fix something for you. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t agree with you that everyone normal wants to be in a state-owned firm. There are people who like to be part of the system because they feel safe and stay in the comfort zone, which is their choice. Slowly things are changing and I am sure that people who want to be happy and successful must start thinking with their head and take the fate of life into their own hands. I would call such people, including myself, optimists or even better visionaries. Every day is an uncertainty, but if we look at it as part of the game then you start playing, the fear disappears, you go forward and you can\u2019t wait for a new day. As for your uncle, I would be very happy to make him a few new suits, it would be good for him and me \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

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Damir Mate\u0161kovi\u0107 \u2013 Fidelio Tailor \u2013 Noel restaurant
Photo: @Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We set off boldly with children\u2019s joys. Bread and butter as in the good old days \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Noel restaurant
Photo: @Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You are owner of lifestyle<\/span> Gentlemen\u2019s shopa<\/a> for men and<\/span> 4Look beauty concepta<\/a> for women in Rijeka, <\/strong>you are engaged in the wholesale of hairdressing equipment and tools, and two years ago you started a brand of handmade suits<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>Fidelio<\/a>\u2026. <\/strong>You spread like a COVID-19. Is there anything else you do (import respirators, used F16\u2026? When do you find time for all of this?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When you live in a small town, in a small market you have to be agile and adaptable. Small companies have the advantage of quick adjustment and rapid change of business direction, and as much as it is positive, it is also negative because you lose direction and focus on the development of a particular business segment. In any case, we are guided by that old peasant proverb which says: “Make sure that not all your apples are in the same basket”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gentlemen’s shop in Rijeka – Fidelio Tailor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In today’s business, time is the biggest enemy, it’s hard to beat the time, you can only use it wisely and recognize business priorities. An entrepreneur should always think with his head and reason, but sometimes it is even more important to rely on intuition and feeling when it is time to make business decisions and changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why<\/span> Gentlemen\u2019s shop<\/a> and why<\/span> Fidelio<\/a> handmade suits <\/span><\/strong>when we have so many beautiful Chinese clothes around us? What does Fidelio mean anyway? Why that name? Did you finish some hairdressing \/tailoring school or did the fact that you have almost 2 meters and you can’t find your confection number anywhere make you buy your first sewing machine and go into business? Admit in front of everyone that you would like to be short like me and it will be easier for all of us.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” In the film, the word Fidelio was the code to enter a secret party under masks. I organized a similar party, in fact a copy of that party from the film, in Rijeka. Fidelio is the title of Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera. In the opera, Fidelio is a woman who disguises herself as a man to save her lover. FIDELIO (lat.) TRUST OR BELIEF (eng.). A name with a strong and deep meaning, especially today when no one trusts anyone!<\/span><\/p>\n