Bernhard Roetzel visits Lorenz Ganter, the Tracht specialist in Ismaning near Munich. Dieter Ganter, grandson of the founder, runs the workshop where six seamstresses build Bavarian suits for customers across Germany.
Month: February 2024
Luigi Wollisch founded Petronius in Milan in 1926, named after Nero's arbiter of taste. His daughters Gigliola and Simona Wollisch run the manufactory today, hand-stitching ties, foulards and pocket squares in the basement of an old Milanese building.
At Ludwig Reiter the made-to-order option is called Privatanfertigung: a ready-to-wear shoe built individually with the customer's choice of leather and sole. Bernhard Roetzel places his order at the factory outlet in Gut Süßenbrunn.
Thomas Mason was founded in Lancashire in 1796 and has belonged to the Albini Group in Albino near Bergamo since 1992, the world's largest maker of fine shirt cloth. Bernhard Roetzel visits the weaving mill to see how the fabrics are made.
