Yasin Tarabia has his suits made by a tailor, preferably in colours you rarely see. A conversation about finding the right one.
Ferdinand Schwarzer runs the Viennese jeweller Schwarzer in the fifth generation. On his cufflink habit, silver and enamel, signet rings and bracelets.
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.
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?
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.
Markus Scheer runs Vienna's oldest bespoke shoemaking house, founded in 1816. He explains what it means to understand a foot rather than simply measure it.
