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If you know anything about Diplo née Wes Pentz, then you’re well aware of his nearly non-stop tour and production schedule. When he’s not busy recording dance hall tracks in Jamaica, he’s working with Santigold on her new record, or touring with Major Lazer and hanging out afterward with Prince in Minneapolis. The grueling schedule has taken its toll on Diplo’s wardrobe, which has precipitously tumbled from the custom-tailored Comme des Garçons suit he sported last October to the $100 suits from Top Shop that he’s recently been wearing on the Major Lazer Lazers Never Die tour. Never one to stand by idly as a friend’s attire suffers ignominiously, we intervened by inviting Diplo to the agency for some help.

Diplo accepted our invitation the other week and stopped by our Fifth Avenue office in New York before the Major Lazer show at Terminal 5 to have his suit measurements taken by Moira Foehr of Ford Men. With Diplo’s measurements accurately recorded by the industry’s top men’s division, the world’s leading menswear designers now have the requisite information to create a suit fit for Diplo. We will feature a follow up story on any designer that meets the challenge to suit Diplo. Tom Ford, Prada, Gucci, who will be first?

DIPLO’s SUIT MEASUREMENTS
NECK: 16¼
FULL CHEST: 34¾
FRONT CHEST: 17
½ SHOULDER RIGHT: 6¾
SLEEVE RIGHT: 26½
FULL SLEEVE RIGHT: 32¾
WRIST: 7¼
BICEP: 16½
ARMPIT: 23
BACK CHEST: 16½
SHOULDER: 19¼
½ SHOULDER LEFT: 6¾
SLEEVE LEFT: 26½

FULL SLEEVE LEFT: 32¾
WAIST/TROUSER WAIST: 36½
HIPS: 43
OUTSIDE LEG: 37
WAIST TO FLOOR: 39¼
ANKLE: 11¼
KNEE: 16
THIGH: 25¼
INSIDE LEG: 20¼
CROTCH: 24½
½ BACK: 22½
FULL BACK: 60½
FRONT JACKET: 27¼

Diplo has suit measurements taken by Moira Foehr (Photography: Damien Neva)

[A version of this blog originally appeared on the Ford Models Blog]