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.
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 on his blue cotton jacket from Ed. Meier in Munich: action pleats behind the sleeves, a collar that buttons up, a centre vent.
Two fittings are the rule in bespoke tailoring. What tailors look for at the first fitting, with sleeves or without, and where made-to-measure differs.
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.
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