Frey has produced silk scarves, foulards and shawls in the province of Como since 1899, describing each piece as a zero-mile product made entirely within the Como area. Its boutiques face the lake at Cernobbio and Bellagio, with a showroom in Cantù.
Alimentari da Caio is a small grocery on Via Garibaldi in Bellagio's old centre, run by Claudio Moneta and stocked with olive oils pressed around Lake Como, including a Bellagio oil and a Vanini oil. Its shelves gather wine, pesto, truffle products and balsamic from small Italian producers across Umbria, Sicily and Puglia.
Azalea has printed Como silk into scarves, shawls and ties since 1960, working from a shopfront in Bellagio's stepped lanes above the lake. Alongside the silk it carries cashmere, cotton and wool pieces made to its own limited-edition designs and produced locally in nearby Como.
Trading under Bellagio's lakefront arcades since 1944, Barindelli e Trezzi makes silk ties, scarves and handmade leather bags, plus individually crafted umbrellas, drawing on family lines in wool-spinning and leatherwork.
Best for Bellagio silk ties, leather bags and handmade umbrellas
Barindelli e Trezzi has traded from Piazza Mazzini in Bellagio, on Lake Como, since 1944, under the arcades between the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni and Hotel Florence. The business draws on two family trades: one great-grandfather, Ettore Sola, ran wool spinning in the Biella valleys in the early 20th century, while another, Francesco, developed leather container-making in the family workshop - a combination that still shows in the shop's split between silk and leather goods today. By the family's own account, American servicemen stationed in Bellagio at the end of the Second World War were among the first to buy the Italian-made silk and leather pieces that built the shop's early reputation. The current range centres on men's silk ties, scarves, bow ties and pocket squares in 100% pure silk, alongside handmade women's leather bags and travel luggage; handcrafted umbrellas are made individually using the same traditional techniques rather than assembled from stock parts, sitting as a genuine but secondary line next to the silk and leather. The workshop also makes fabric-and-leather trolleys and toiletry cases, and keeps a practice of recovering offcuts from larger production runs into smaller items like coin purses and key rings rather than discarding them - a detail that reflects a small workshop's economics as much as any sustainability branding.
Gaia Bellagio has fitted out its Via Garibaldi shop with Italian-made shoes and accessories since 2008, from women's sandals and boots to men's loafers in Italian leather. It pairs artisan-made footwear with bags and belts, keeping the old resort rhythm of a midday close and an afternoon reopening.
This family leather workshop, founded in 1978, cuts and hand-finishes belts, bags, shoes and wallets in the quiet upper lanes of Bellagio's old centre. The makers source hides from Tuscan tanneries and work them by hand with manual splitting and sewing tools, turning out limited runs rather than stock lines.