Luca Rubinacci, third generation of the Neapolitan house Rubinacci, runs his atelier in Milan. A crumpled Borsalino, 342,000 Instagram followers and an apprenticeship at Kilgour on Savile Row: a portrait of the style icon of bespoke culture.
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.
In late summer 2023 Feine Herr visited Musella Dembech in Milan. Francesco Musella, born 1941, started his apprenticeship at the age of nine in Caserta. With his son Gianfrancesco he runs one of the ateliers Simon Crompton has championed for over a decade.
Three years after the first visit, Bernhard Roetzel returns to Milanese shirt tailor Alessandro Siniscalchi for new fittings and new shirts. Nothing has changed in the studio: hand-stitched throughout, the fit refined at every fitting.
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.
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.
