Who Is Brian burnett?
Brian Burnett
Glenwood South Tailors + Alterations
Founder/CEO
Brian Burnett is the Founder of Glenwood South Tailors + Alterations. GSTA team has grown by 30% since inception and serves busy Triangle professionals/executives that value a trusted advisor regarding their tailoring, alterations, and bespoke needs. He is also Co-Founder of Burnett Development, a budding affordable housing and commercial asset firm.
Brian received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013.
While touring Europe, Brian explored the bespoke tailoring trade. Specifically Savile Row, Jermyn St, Piccadilly Circus and various highstreet shops in London peaked his curiosity regarding sartorial tailoring. This culture and the personalized nature of how tailors carried on with clients and their lives was a vastly different experience compared to what he was accustomed to for over 10 years back in the US. However, the couture inspired streetwear culture of the Champs-Elysees district, Florence's Ponte Vecchio area and Rome's luxury tailoring houses planted the seeds of what would become a true bespoke sartorial obsession. The combination of foundational clothier training at Nordstrom combined with luxury menswear “people watching” of European silhouettes created an appetite for an obsession with fit and symmetry. Upon his return, he joined the SaaS industry for companies such as Bronto Software and iciBlueAcorn, but this passion for tailoring remained.
While in the tech space, Brian gathered deeper digital insights regarding the trending shift of consumer behaviors presented by e-commerce and the market gaps it created.
With this knowledge and a love for people, Brian launched GSTA in 2015 on his lunch break at his last SaaS company, just 4 months before he was laid off. Funded by his $4k commission and one seamstress, to date, the GSTA team has leveraged Brian’s love for sartorial tailoring, relationship based service, C-Suite experience, and world class customer experience. North of 5k clients to date, Brian leads the Triangle’s first luxury tailoring house infused with a mobile-focused infrastructure and fueled by a team of 18 local artisans, tailors, and stylists for a true end-to-end solution for today’s busy professional.
Brian’s personal clientele includes Triangle leaders such as Mr and Mrs. Gregg Lowe (CREE), Scot Wingo (Get Spiffy), Brooks Bell (BrooksBell), Steve De May (Duke Energy), Gordon Grubb (Grubb Ventures), Zach Maurides (TeamWorks), NC Governor Roy Cooper, and various other CEOs. Brian and his team’s mission is to continue to provide a personalized and consultative wardrobing approach to North Carolina’s executives and professionals as they drive our global economy from the best city in the South East.
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