Antica Barbieria Colla was founded in 1904 by Dino Colla and has been at Via Gerolamo Morone, just behind La Scala, since 1943. Hot towels to finish a shave and Marseille-soap shampoos: two Milanese inventions still in use at the address today.
Munich-born master tailor Kathrin Emmer has been cutting bespoke suits in Potsdam for twenty years, for clients from across Germany. A visit to her studio in a quiet detached house near Griebnitzsee, the doorbell sign reads simply Emmer.
Oxxford Clothes has made handmade suits in Chicago since 1916. Ben Mayer, the company's representative in Germany, talks about hand-padded lapels, chain-stitched armholes and how Oxxford compares to Brioni or Chester Barrie.
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.
Berlin-based bespoke shoemaker Korbinian Ludwig Heß has launched a wooden shoe-care box stocked with Saphir products. In conversation he explains why sparing application matters and how cream and wax paste complement each other.
