Maximilian Mogg has run his Berlin bespoke atelier at Bleibtreustraße 27 in Charlottenburg since 2018. A portrait of a German tailor who would blend in on Savile Row and stands out in Berlin as the country's most talked-about bespoke designer.
Month: February 2020
Francesco Barberis Canonico is the 13th generation in charge of the Vitale Barberis Canonico mill. In conversation about an English upbringing, fabrics built for tailors and a family business that thinks ahead while honouring its past.
Tailoring was never an English invention. Bernhard Roetzel introduces the German bespoke scene, why its decline began earlier than elsewhere, and which tailors and shoemakers in Germany still deserve discovery abroad.
Two fittings are the rule in bespoke tailoring. What tailors look for at the first fitting, with sleeves or without, and where made-to-measure differs.
Vivian Saskia Wittmer is the only female bespoke shoemaker in Florence, originally from Germany and at her workbench in Italy for over twenty years. A portrait of a craftswoman who skips the mystique and simply aims to make very good shoes.
Compulsory into the 1950s, then a symbol of the older generation. The history, the models and the wearing of the classic hat for men today.
Markus Scheer runs Vienna's oldest bespoke shoemaking house, founded in 1816. He explains what it means to understand a foot rather than simply measure it.
An answer to Simon Crompton's case against braces. Why Bernhard Roetzel wears them with suit trousers, and what that has to do with balance.
Bernhard Roetzel on his blue cotton jacket from Ed. Meier in Munich: action pleats behind the sleeves, a collar that buttons up, a centre vent.
