James Whitfield is the only Savile Row trained tailor running a bespoke business in Germany. In the third part of the series, Bernhard Roetzel watches him cut the final cloth for the sportscoat after two fittings.
Sandals are seen as the antithesis of classic style, yet Tricker's offered them and Materna in Vienna makes bespoke sandals. Bernhard Roetzel on how sandals can sit alongside formalwear without contradicting it.
Wegen Corona verschoben, nun in Hamburg: Bernhard Roetzel probiert den Probierschuh von Maftei. Was bedeutet es, dass ein Schuh „passt“, und warum ist die Anprobe für Schuhmacher noch schwieriger als für Schneider?
Erste Anprobe für Bernhard Roetzels Sportsakko bei James Whitfield in Berlin-Moabit, mit Maske und erstem Stadtbesuch nach Monaten. Mit dabei: Marie, die James als Schneiderin ausgebildet hat und seither bei ihm arbeitet.
Jörg Woltmann, Germany's youngest private banker in 1979, bought the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur KPM in Berlin in 2006. An interview at the KPM café about porcelain, the „Kurland“ service and rescuing a piece of Berlin culture.
How is a bespoke shoemaker faring during the pandemic? Bernhard Roetzel meets Korbinian Ludwig Heß in his Berlin workshop and sees three new pairs of shoes, including a cordovan commission.
Bernhard Roetzel presents three suits for early summer 2020: a grey single-breasted from Anton Meyer in Hamburg, cut from Vitale Barberis Canonico worsted, plus two lighter pieces that also work casually.
Brooks Brothers, J. Press, Haspel: Bernhard Roetzel on the American roots of the seersucker suit, the puckered weave that traps cooling pockets of air, and why the fabric was so hard to find in Europe.
Founded in 1995 by Friedrich von Schönfels, Christian Ohff and Christian von Campe, Campe & Ohff is Germany's only sizeable bespoke shirt manufactory. A portrait of the Hamburg house and a visit during a fitting.
James Fox, head of marketing at the family-owned Crockett & Jones in Northampton, on running a shoe factory through the pandemic and on the steady demand for classics that has carried the firm through earlier storms too.
Trench coat or slip-on in cotton gabardine, Swiss Etaproof, the old English Ventile: Bernhard Roetzel lays out the spring overcoat classics, including a Ventile Mac by Private White VC and the Amity Jackets piece in Etaproof.
The American cotton sack suit, the Neapolitan linen from Rubinacci, the striped seersucker: Bernhard Roetzel walks through the summer-suit classics, with cuts, fabrics and the context that gave each its character.
