Interview

Jermyn Street is the synonym for the English shirtmaking tradition. There, or more precisely at Piccadilly Arcade, bespoke shirts are cut on the premises of Budd Shirtmakers. We have met the shirtmakers at a trunkshow in Germany a while ago, now we spoken to them on the phone for this interview.

Last year I visited Bucarest and by chance I met Mircea Cioponea. He told me that he had just started the new bespoke shoe company Petru & Claymoor with his business partner Petru Coca. We met for a very insightful interview.

I had the opportunity to meet Benedikt Fries for an interview in Berlin. He told a lot about his label...

Jörg Woltmann has founded a bank as a young man, later he took over Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur KPM saving it from bancruptcy. We have met him there in Berlin for an interview.

Markus Scheer looks like a medical practitioner in his trademark white lab coat. But he is an intellectual craftsman. He runs Vienna’s oldest and most prestigious bespoke shoemaking business.

How are bespoke shoemakers dealing with the restrictions affecting social life? We spoke to Berlin based bespoke shoemaker Korbinian Ludwig Heß and saw the latest shoes he made.

South Tyrolean Michi Klemera is the founder and Managing Director of the men’s fashion label Luis Trenker. We met him...

Only few classical menswear brands enjoy such unanimous approval as Crockett & Jones. Head of Marketing James Fox speaks about the reasons of this success and reveals some background information.

Ignatious Joseph ranks among the foremost shirt designers in the menswear business. The yellow boxes with his shirts are on...

Francesco Barberis Canonico is the Creative Director of Vitale Barberis Canonico, one of Italy’s oldest and most respected mills. And one of the most elegant men I know.

Portrait of Victor Besnard by photographer Jeroen van de Gruiter. It’s been a long time since I last wore a...

From 31st July- 5th August 2023 tailors from all over the world met in Biella at the Congress of the...