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Ties “Handmade” in Milan – Petronius 1926

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.

Cloth Shirts

The best shirt fabrics –
Visit to Thomas Mason

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.

Shoes Vienna

Visit to Ludwig Reiter in Vienna, Part 1

Ludwig Reiter I opened his Vienna shoemaker's workshop in 1885, and his great-grandson Til Reiter took over in 1985. Part 1 of the visit to Vienna's last welted shoe manufactory and its 140-year history.

Suits Tailors

Bespoke Suit by Dawid Kukliński

Bernhard Roetzel collects his bespoke suit from Dawid Kukliński in Berlin, cut from a mid-grey Holland & Sherry covert in the now-discontinued Dakota bundle, a cloth he had wanted to wear for more than twenty years.

Florence Tailors

Liverano & Liverano in Florence

Bernhard Roetzel first heard of Liverano & Liverano in 1999 and visited the Florentine atelier shortly afterwards. On Antonio Liverano, the unpadded sloping shoulders and a style that stays out of the way of time.

Shoes

Review Norwegian by László Budapest

László Budapest, part of Schwangau Schuh GmbH in Ostallgäu, has its welted shoes built in a Hungarian workshop under its own direction. Bernhard Roetzel reviews the bestseller, the Norwegian Magnus in brown cowhide.

Shoes

Visit to Ludwig Reiter, Part 2 –
Individual order

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.

Jackets

Interview with Justo Gimeno

Justo Gimeno, the third in his family of the same name, makes coats, trench coats and the Teba jacket in Zaragoza that his grandfather first produced for Count Teba in the 1920s. He also represents Drake's, William Lockie and Hiltl.

Accessories Milan

Umbrellas “Made in Milano” Ombrelli Maglia

Fabbrica Ombrelli Maglia is the last umbrella manufactory in Milan. Francesco Maglia, nephew of the long-time face of the brand Chino Maglia, has run it since 2019 in the sixth generation, with fabrics woven on Lake Como.

Tailors

Kathrin Emmer, Bespoke Tailor from Potsdam

Munich-born master tailor Kathrin Emmer has been cutting bespoke suits in Potsdam for twenty years, for clients from across Germany. A visit to her studio in a quiet detached house near Griebnitzsee, the doorbell sign reads simply Emmer.

Care Shoes

Shoe care tips from Korbinian Ludwig Heß

Berlin-based bespoke shoemaker Korbinian Ludwig Heß has launched a wooden shoe-care box stocked with Saphir products. In conversation he explains why sparing application matters and how cream and wax paste complement each other.

Shoes

Bespoke loafers by Wayman Bespoke

Bernhard Roetzel reviews a loafer from Simon Wegmann's online bespoke concept Wayman Bespoke: the trial shoe sent by post, the remote measurement process and the fit of the finished pair, ordered without a single physical fitting.

The 41 Most Important Questions About Shirts

How a Suit Should Fit

On Bespoke Shoes

The First Bespoke Fitting

Commissioning Your First Bespoke Suit

Bespoke Suits from Vienna: An Interview with Yasin Tarabia

Cufflinks from Vienna: An Interview with Ferdinand Schwarzer

Interview with Ignatious Joseph

Interview with Justo Gimeno

Ties and Tailoring – Interview with Benedikt Fries, owner of Shibumi

Ties “Handmade” in Milan – Petronius 1926

The best shirt fabrics –
Visit to Thomas Mason

Visit to Ludwig Reiter in Vienna, Part 1

Bespoke Suit by Dawid Kukliński

Liverano & Liverano in Florence

Review Norwegian by László Budapest

Visit to Ludwig Reiter, Part 2 –
Individual order

Interview with Justo Gimeno

Umbrellas “Made in Milano” Ombrelli Maglia

Kathrin Emmer, Bespoke Tailor from Potsdam

Shoe care tips from Korbinian Ludwig Heß

Bespoke loafers by Wayman Bespoke

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