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.
James Whitfield, trained in Savile Row at Anderson & Sheppard, runs his own bespoke business in Berlin-Moabit since 2019. Part 1 of the series: a Londoner with dry humour, a Brisbane Moss cloth and the start of a sportscoat commission.
Bernhard Roetzel orders his first pair of bespoke shoes from Maftei in Vienna, meeting Lucian Maftei at Ladage & Oelke in Hamburg. The Maftei family came from Romania in the 1980s, the workshop is still there, the trunk shows have toured Germany for over twenty years.
Ed.Meier Munich was founded in 1596 and is now run in the 13th generation by Peter Eduard and Brigitte Meier. The old shoe shop has become a complete outfitter, with exclusive Scottish tweeds and the house's own Peduform last range.
Founded in early 2020 by Lothar Eckstein and Ingo Brinkmeier, Manheimer Berlin sits in a former industrial yard on Uferstraße in Wedding. Modern ready-to-wear with an Italian-leaning fit for men who like the idea of a suit but not the dress code.
Maximilian Mogg has run his Berlin bespoke atelier at Bleibtreustraße 27 in Charlottenburg since 2018. A portrait of a German tailor who would blend in on Savile Row and stands out in Berlin as the country's most talked-about bespoke designer.
Vivian Saskia Wittmer is the only female bespoke shoemaker in Florence, originally from Germany and at her workbench in Italy for over twenty years. A portrait of a craftswoman who skips the mystique and simply aims to make very good shoes.
Markus Scheer im weißen Kittel, fast wie ein Arzt. Er führt die 1816 gegründete Wiener Maßschuhwerkstatt Scheer in Familienhand und erklärt im Interview, was es bedeutet, einen Fuß zu verstehen statt nur zu vermessen.
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