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.
Founded in Hamburg in 2012 by Marc Anthony and Max Meyer-Abich, Anton Meyer sits stylistically between late-eighties Hackett and SuitSupply. Italian cut, German figure, suits sewn in Portugal, an „Ingmar BF“ at 485 euros and the „Helmut Blau“ shirt at 95.
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.
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.
Mircea Cioponea, the man behind the shoe blog Claymoorslist, has joined forces with shoemaker Petru Coca to open a bespoke atelier in Bucharest. An interview about Romania's Austro-Hungarian shoemaking heritage and the road to their own workshop.
Tailoring was never an English invention. Bernhard Roetzel introduces the German bespoke scene, why its decline began earlier than elsewhere, and which tailors and shoemakers in Germany still deserve discovery abroad.
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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