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.
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.
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.
Victor Besnard runs his Parisian shirt label around the buttondown collar, the one Brooks Brothers introduced in New York. An interview about the Polo collar, soft-roll construction and why a shirt should last for years.
Born in Sri Lanka, based in Düsseldorf since 1997, Ignatious Joseph is one of the foremost shirt designers in menswear. He talks about his style, the legacy of British dress in the tropics and why experience is the only teacher.
Darren Tiernan, Senior Bespoke Cutter bei Budd Shirtmakers in Piccadilly Arcade an der Jermyn Street, im Interview über das House-Pattern, den hochgestellten Forward Collar und 36 Stiche auf dem Inch in der englischen Hemdenfertigung.
Founded in 1995 by Friedrich von Schönfels, Christian Ohff and Christian von Campe, Campe & Ohff is Germany's only sizeable bespoke shirt manufactory. A portrait of the Hamburg house and a visit during a fitting.
