Mick Möller runs the Hanover menswear outfitter Mick's with a classic range reinterpreted for today. In our interview he talks about growing up in his parents' shop, his passion for rock 'n' roll and his path into the trade.
Ignatious Joseph, one of the world's best-known shirt designers, on the yellow shirt boxes, the multicoloured shirts with their wide high collar, and the red bespoke shoes he tells people, with a straight face, are from Aldi.
In Part 2 Bernhard Roetzel orders a Tracht-style suit at Lorenz Ganter in Ismaning, cut from Jägerleinen by Leichtfried Loden, with the Bavarian jacket pattern and high-waisted trousers in the style of the 1920s.
Bernhard Roetzel visits Lorenz Ganter, the Tracht specialist in Ismaning near Munich. Dieter Ganter, grandson of the founder, runs the workshop where six seamstresses build Bavarian suits for customers across Germany.
At Ludwig Reiter the made-to-order option is called Privatanfertigung: a ready-to-wear shoe built individually with the customer's choice of leather and sole. Bernhard Roetzel places his order at the factory outlet in Gut Süßenbrunn.
Thomas Mason was founded in Lancashire in 1796 and has belonged to the Albini Group in Albino near Bergamo since 1992, the world's largest maker of fine shirt cloth. Bernhard Roetzel visits the weaving mill to see how the fabrics are made.
Justo Gimeno, the third in his family of the same name, makes coats, trench coats and the Teba jacket in Zaragoza that his grandfather first produced for Count Teba in the 1920s. He also represents Drake's, William Lockie and Hiltl.
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.
Benedikt Fries founded Berlin tie label Shibumi as an online shop eleven years ago. In our interview he explains the Japanese aesthetic concept of restrained elegance and his personal approach to bespoke.
From 31 July to 5 August 2023 the World Federation of Master Tailors held its biennial congress in Biella. Bernhard Roetzel talks to Alfredo de Giglio about the WFMT, founded in Brussels in 1865, and the state of the craft today.
South Tyrolean Michi Klemera founded the menswear label Luis Trenker. In a Pitti Uomo conversation he talks about his grandfathers in the mountains, everyday style as joie de vivre, and sustainability as a matter of course.
Mark Francis built Heron's Ghyll in London for men who chafe at the standard suit cut. Bernhard Roetzel came across the label at Pitti Uomo in June 2023 while wearing Bavarian linen jackets and introduces the brand and its founder.
