ORBISSHIRTMAKERS IN NAPLES 19 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Shirtmakers in Naples
19 stores · curated ORBIS register
Anna Matuozzo makes hand-sewn shirts to measure at its Viale Antonio Gramsci atelier, receiving clients through an appointment-led service. Online consultations offer another route into the same shirtmaking work, alongside visits to the Naples atelier. Barba Napoli has produced Neapolitan dress shirts since 1964, with hand-passed shoulders among the construction details identified by the house.
Neapolitan shirtmaker creating hand-sewn, made-to-measure shirts at its appointment-led Viale Antonio Gramsci atelier and through online consultation.
Best for Fully hand-sewn Neapolitan shirts.
Camiceria Matuozzo works from Viale Antonio Gramsci 26, in Chiaia, and makes one thing. Shirts, for men, cut and finished by hand to the individual measurement, ordered at the atelier or through remote consultation, with periodic trunk shows away from Naples. The house dates its work to 1970 and still trades under the family name as a partnership. Naples supports an unusual concentration of shirtmakers, and what separates one from another is not design but the proportion of the garment worked by hand rather than by machine — collar, shoulder, armhole, side seams, buttonholes — a distinction invisible in a photograph and legible mainly to people already inside the trade. A visitor would not find this without being told. Viale Gramsci is a residential avenue set back from the shopping streets, the atelier runs on appointments rather than passing footfall, and the product gives nothing away from the pavement, a hand-sewn shirt being, at a glance, a shirt. The house has no shopfront logic to catch anyone. It works from a client list and from the small international audience that follows Neapolitan shirtmaking closely enough to know which door to knock on.
A Naples tie workshop opened in the 1920s by Eugenio Calabrese, who owned some 300 ties and became a style reference for friends; closed during WWII, revived after by son Francesco, and now led by fourth-generation Annalisa Calabrese.
Best for Tie heritage polos; Shirts, ties, Neapolitan style
Calabrese traces its origins to the 1920s, when Eugenio Calabrese, a Neapolitan with a personal wardrobe of more than three hundred ties, turned his passion for dressing well into a workshop producing handmade ties in the heart of Naples. He became a style reference for relatives, friends and acquaintances who sought his advice. The workshop closed during the Second World War, and after the war his son, Francesco Calabrese, revived the business. By the 1960s, ties bearing the F. Calabrese label had built a following across Europe and overseas, making the firm one of the longest-running tie manufacturers still operating in Europe. The business passed to the next generation under Gaetano Calabrese, and in 1991 to his daughter Annalisa Calabrese, who today runs the company as its fourth generation. In 2024, marking a century since Eugenio's original workshop, Calabrese 1924 presented a centenary capsule collection at Pitti Uomo 106 in Florence. The company continues to make its ties and sartorial accessories in Naples and sells through boutiques internationally.
Maurizio Piccirillo makes hand-finished shirts using techniques he describes as part of the Naples tailoring tradition. His account begins with fabric selection and follows the detailed handwork used to construct a shirt. He grew up in a family of tailors in the historic centre of Naples.
Best for Hand-finished shirts in the Naples tailoring tradition
Camiceria Maurizio Piccirillo is run by Maurizio Piccirillo, who grew up in Naples' historic center in a family of tailors and entered the trade at a young age, eventually taking responsibility for factory production within the local shirtmaking sector before establishing his own house under his name. His wife, Ilaria, a skilled embroiderer, has worked alongside him in the company's production for more than twenty years, handling the decorative hand-embroidery — monograms, buttonholes and finishing details — associated with Neapolitan shirtmaking. The workshop follows the construction conventions of the city's tailoring tradition: shirts are built from selected fabrics and sewn largely by hand, with attention to the shoulder seam, collar construction and fit associated with Naples' shirtmaking houses, a category that also includes better-known names such as Salvatore Piccolo and Camiceria Piccolo, cited alongside Piccirillo as part of the same local craft lineage.
The tiny Riviera di Chiaia shop tying the world's most famous seven-fold ties since 1914 — presidents dressed here. Original shop is 20 m². In the 1980s Italian president Francesco Cossiga presented boxes of five Marinella ties to visiting heads of state.
Best for Hand-made Neapolitan ties and small leather gifts.
Eugenio Marinella opened his small shop on Naples' Riviera di Chiaia in 1914 with a specific ambition: to bring English gentleman's style to Naples, better made. The house became famous for one object — the seven-fold-quality tie, cut generously from English-printed silks in small-scale patterns, hand-finished in Naples — and its client list grew to include presidents, royals, and statesmen who order by the dozen. The shop itself is tiny and largely unchanged, opening early in the Neapolitan tradition, with the espresso offered to morning customers part of the ritual. Ties remain the core: the silks are selected in England, made up by hand in Naples, and the house's proportions — slightly wider, unmistakably its own — have resisted every trend. A Marinella tie is Naples' most exportable object: a century of one family doing one thing at the highest level.
Arrive early in the morning as Neapolitans do; the small shop rewards the quiet hour, and the seasonal printed silks sell through quickly.
Errico Formicola’s shirtmaking is visible in details such as soft collars, hand-finished elements and made-to-measure options. The wider range extends that tailoring approach into jackets, knitwear, trousers and accessories.
Best for Neapolitan shirts direct from the source.
Fourth-generation Neapolitan shirtmaker with a dedicated one-piece collar collection — the antique construction cut from a single piece, collar rolling upright on its own.
Avino Laboratorio Napoletano, a Naples shirtmaking atelier founded in 2001 by Francesco Avino - trained under Cesare Attolini - known for entirely handmade shirts finished with traditional 8-point stitching.
Best for Shirts, Artisan
Avino Laboratorio Napoletano is a Neapolitan shirtmaking house founded in 2001 by Francesco Avino, who began his career working with Cesare Attolini, one of the founding names of modern Neapolitan tailoring, before establishing his own atelier. The brand is built around fully handmade construction and finishing, particularly associated with the traditional Neapolitan '8-point' hand-stitched shirt collar and cuff technique. Avino Laboratorio Napoletano shirts are sold through the brand's own e-commerce site and stocked by international menswear retailers, including L.C. VIA. and the Paris multi-brand shop L'officine Paris.
Luca Avitabile makes shirts by hand in an atelier inside Palazzo Berio on Via Toledo in Naples, opposite the Galleria Umberto. Bespoke work starts with a muslin pattern and a fitting, with fabrics from Carlo Riva and Alumo. His Friday polo, cut long with shirt tails to sit under tailoring, joined the range in 2020. Ready-to-wear and made-to-order pieces are sold online, and trunk shows take the atelier abroad.
Best for The definitive one-piece collar polo.
Luca Avitabile cuts shirts in an atelier on the first floor of Palazzo Berio on Via Toledo in Naples, opposite the Galleria Umberto. Clients climb a stone stairwell and ring the bell before entering a terrazzo-floored fitting room. Monocle described the process in its February 2024 issue. After coffee and conversation Avitabile cuts a pattern in plain muslin and follows it with a fitting, which he regards as the delicate part of the process. Fabric choices run from striped Carlo Riva twill to Alumo Swiss cotton and Japanese denim, with buttons in Australian or Tahitian mother-of-pearl. The Friday polo, sewn from lightweight piqué and cut long with shirt tails so it can be tucked under tailoring, entered the range in 2020 as ready-to-wear and is now ordered custom as often as not. Clients who come for a classic shirt usually add a made-to-measure overshirt or polo, he told the magazine. A made-to-order overshirt service lets customers pick fabric and details. Ready-to-wear shirts and knitwear are sold online, and trunk shows and virtual meetings extend the atelier beyond Naples. Enquiries in Japanese are welcome, and appointments at the atelier are booked by email.
Antonio Panico’s bespoke sartoria — Rubinacci’s master cutter for twenty years before opening his own ateliers (Naples 1991, Via Condotti Rome 1996); jackets so comfortable you never want to take them off.
Best for Bespoke polos, handmade; Bespoke shirts, Neapolitan; Bespoke Suits, Neapolitan
Remo Manno Sartoriale Partenopeo has spent over 35 years making custom shirts and suits in the Vomero district of Naples using high quality fabrics. The tailor holds an Eccellenze Italiane certificate and has dressed tennis players Fognini, Bolelli and Berrettini as well as footballer Victor Osimhen.
Trained by his mother Maria Cavagnoli, who made bespoke shirts from their home in Naples' Piazza Mercato district, Salvatore Piccolo worked as a shirt-factory warehouseman from age fifteen before opening a made-to-measure shirt shop with her the following year, later adding jackets, ties and foulards.
Best for Shirts, Accessories
Salvatore Piccolo learned shirtmaking from his mother, Maria Cavagnoli, who had begun working in a family shirtmaking workshop at age nine and later made bespoke shirts from their home in Naples' Piazza Mercato district. Salvatore started work at fifteen as a warehouseman for a shirt factory, absorbing the trade from the production side before, at sixteen, opening a small made-to-measure shirt shop together with his mother. Working client by client, he learned the cutting and construction techniques that define Neapolitan shirtmaking — a soft, unlined, hand-finished collar and a closer body than the classic English cut — and built a bespoke clientele that grew to several hundred customers worldwide. As demand increased, the original small shop expanded into a larger operation, and the label extended beyond bespoke shirts into ready-made shirts, jackets, ties and foulards, blending English, American and Italian tailoring references with techniques rooted in Neapolitan artisan shirtmaking.
Founded by Gian Piero, Santoli Napoli is a 100% Italian linen apparel brand whose shirts, drawstring trousers and shorts are made in Napoli. The direct-to-consumer label builds a focused warm-weather wardrobe around Italian-woven linen, Neapolitan cutting and matching separates, giving shoppers a compact Naples-made alternative to a broader full-line fashion house.
Sartoria Allocca makes made-to-measure shirts in Naples using poplin, twill and linen from superior-quality fabrics and fine yarns. The business is registered as SC Confezioni SRL.
Sartoria Formosa has cut bespoke clothes in Naples since 1965, when Mario Formosa founded the house now run by Gennaro Formosa. The atelier at Vico Cavallerizza a Chiaia 37 makes suits, overcoats, shirts and trousers to measure by appointment. Its signatures are the hand-sewn buttonhole and the soft Neapolitan sleeve. A Luxury Casual line adds denim shirts and cashmere knitwear, jeans or cloth trousers.
Best for Bespoke collar roll polos; Bespoke shirts, Neapolitan tailoring; Bespoke Suits
Sartoria Formosa marked sixty years of tailoring in Napoli in 2025. The house describes that span as a story made of hands and thread and measure. Mario Formosa founded it in 1965, and his son Gennaro Formosa carries it today. He receives clients personally at the atelier in Vico Cavallerizza a Chiaia. The house sets out its craft in a handful of details. The buttonhole is sewn by hand to a millimetre. The sleeve is set soft and natural so that the shoulder moves freely, and the tailors treat that as a matter of comfort as much as tradition. Lapels come in many cuts rather than one, chosen for proportion and character. The trousers are built by hand to clean lines. The stated aim is a suit that follows the body rather than reshaping it. Appointments are booked for a bespoke suit, a tailored overcoat or a made-to-measure shirt. Each visit begins with a consultation. Alongside the bespoke work the house runs a Luxury Casual line of denim shirts and cashmere knitwear, jeans or cloth trousers. These are cut with the same precision for everyday wear. The anniversary programme, in the words of the house, looks to a future of elegance rather than only to the past, and the family treats the sixtieth year as a starting point for the next generation of the atelier.
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