Twenty-two-year-old Timberland boat shoes restitched at the Poeschk workshop in Berlin. What a proper shoe repair costs and what it gives back.
Which alterations can a ready-to-wear suit take, and which not? The ones that matter, at trouser length, waist and shoulders, shown at Brummer in Berlin.
Antica Barbieria Colla was founded in 1904 by Dino Colla and has been at Via Gerolamo Morone, just behind La Scala, since 1943. Hot towels to finish a shave and Marseille-soap shampoos: two Milanese inventions still in use at the address today.
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.
The Potsdam tailor Kathrin Emmer shows how to press a suit at home: the damp cloth, the order of work, and why the lapels must roll.
