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 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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