Kente Gentlemen makes menswear in Côte d'Ivoire, bringing West African colour and pattern into its tailored silhouettes. The Abidjan label sells seasonal clothing collections online and receives showroom visitors at the Lepic Villa Hotel by appointment. Accra's GOBA Kente sells lengths of named kente patterns, distinguishing handwoven cloth and silk options in its product range.
What makes great tailors & sartorial houses?
This plate lists 315 shops in 70 countries. Paris has the most with 30, followed by Naples with 17. Among these shops, 86 describe made-to-order work, 8 sell online and 7 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask how many fittings to expect: plan the first appointment early in a trip, since a garment cut for you usually needs more than one visit.
Ask what is made in the workshop: some houses cut and sew in their own rooms, while others send the work to an outside maker.
Ask about alterations later: find out whether the house adjusts its own garments when your size or the season changes.
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Tailors & Sartorial Houses · 315 shops, the best first
Dublin tailors founded in 1936 by Jim Kevin and Michael Howlin at 39 Nassau Street; since 1973 run by the Kevin family from 31 Nassau Street as a specialist in handwoven Donegal tweed jackets, coats, hats and countrywear.
Best for Donegal tweed caps and Irish country clothing
Kevin & Howlin was founded in 1936 by Jim Kevin and his partner Michael Howlin as tailors and outfitters at 39 Nassau Street in Dublin, specializing in handwoven tweed alongside general tailoring. In 1973, redevelopment of the original premises pushed the business — by then run by Jim's son Noel — to 31 Nassau Street, where it narrowed its focus exclusively to tweed. The shop's jackets, coats, hats and countrywear are woven to its specification in Donegal. Nearly ninety years on, the business remains family-run from the same Nassau Street address, one of Dublin's longest-standing specialist tailoring shops.
Ho Chi Minh City bespoke tailoring house founded in 1948 by Ly Minh, who held Vietnam's state-conferred 'Tailoring Artist' title; now family-run into its third generation from District 1, with a second office in Hanoi, known for hand-stitched construction and clients including General Vo Nguyen Giap.
Best for Bespoke tailoring from a multigeneration Saigon house since 1948
Cao Minh Tailor was founded in Saigon in 1948 by Ly Minh, who was later awarded Vietnam's state-conferred 'Tailoring Artist' title by the State Council in recognition of his craft. The house has stayed in family hands since, now run by the second and third generations, and is counted among the oldest continuously operating bespoke tailors in Vietnam.
The business became a private enterprise in 1991, a formal status change during Vietnam's post-reform economic opening (Đổi Mới), and went on to become the first Vietnamese tailoring house to export high-end suits to Japan, a market known for exacting quality control. Its client list has included senior Vietnamese historical and political figures, among them General Võ Nguyên Giáp, commander of Vietnam's armed forces.
Cao Minh's reputation rests on hand-stitched construction rather than machine assembly — canvassing, padding and finishing done by hand in the traditional bespoke method. The main house operates from Hai Bà Trưng Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, with a second office in Hanoi.
Chiso has dressed Kyoto's merchant and aristocratic clients since 1555, when it began supplying garments to monks and nobility before moving into yuzen-dyed kimono. Its Kyoto flagship now pairs made-to-order kimono with a gallery of dyed textile art drawn from the house's five-century archive.
Anderson & Sheppard has been a Savile Row tailoring house since 1906. Per Anderson set the fluid cutting style that still distinguishes it. The house cut favours easy movement and a natural body line, passed down through an unbroken chain of cutters and tailors. The firm currently trains nine apprentices, holds a Royal Warrant as tailors to the King, and works from 32 Old Burlington Street.
Best for Bespoke Savile Row tailoring in the house's fluid, easy-moving cut
Established in 1689 to make ceremonial robes for the coronation of King William III and Queen Mary II, Ede & Ravenscroft claims the title of London's oldest tailor and continues to dress the judiciary, clergy and universities in bespoke gowns from its Chancery Lane shop. Alongside legal and academic robemaking, the firm produces bespoke and ready-to-wear tailoring, holding Royal Warrants earned across more than three centuries of trade.
Best for Legal and academic robes, bespoke tailoring
Larusmiani has traded on Milan's Via Montenapoleone since 1922. The house specializes in bespoke Milanese tailoring and a gentleman's wardrobe of refined accessories from that same address.
Best for Montenapoleone tailoring and refined accessories.
Heir of the man who invented the unstructured Neapolitan jacket — hand-made perfection, no compromise. Historic workshop was on Via Vetriera; current flagship is on Via Filangieri. Robb Report (2010) says Vincenzo designed the slimmer, high-armhole jacket while working for Gennaro Rubinacci, then opened his own shop at 12 Via Vetriera before WWII.
Best for The original soft jacket, hand-made throughout.
The Attolini name carries a specific historical claim: in the 1930s, Vincenzo Attolini, working in Naples, deconstructed the stiff English jacket — removing padding and structure to create the soft, unlined Neapolitan style whose natural shoulder and fluid drape now define an entire school of tailoring. His descendants formalized the family house under the Cesare Attolini name, and it remains family-run, producing jackets that pass through extraordinary quantities of handwork in its Neapolitan workshops. Nothing about the operation is scaled for volume; the house makes limited numbers and dresses clients who want the original article rather than the style's many imitations. The jackets are the point — spalla camicia shoulders, hand-sewn throughout — with trousers, shirts, and outerwear in support. For students of tailoring, this is a pilgrimage: the source of the softest silhouette in menswear.
Try a jacket one size from your usual — the unstructured cut fits closer to the body than padded tailoring, and the house's proportions surprise first-time wearers.
Neapolitan tailoring house that began as a fabric shop opened by Enrico Isaia in the 1920s; in 1957 brothers Enrico, Rosario and Corrado Isaia moved production to Casalnuovo di Napoli, a town where roughly half the population worked as tailors. Garments still carry the brand's signature red-coral lapel pin.
Best for Soft-shouldered suits and Neapolitan color.
Isaia began in the 1920s as Enrico Isaia's fabric shop serving Naples' bespoke tailors, and in 1957 the brothers Enrico, Rosario and Corrado moved production to Casalnuovo di Napoli — a town where, famously, roughly half the population worked as tailors. The house industrialized Neapolitan tailoring without denaturing it: spalla camicia shirt-shoulders, sweeping lapels, jackets soft as knitwear but cut with Mediterranean swagger.
The red coral lapel pin, a Neapolitan good-luck charm, became the brand's signature and its thesis — southern Italian exuberance worn proudly where sober Milan would abstain. Cloths run bold: mohair sheens, impossible blues, checks that require confidence. Gianluca Isaia, third generation, fronts the house with exactly the persona the clothes promise.
Flagships from Madison Avenue to Milan carry the full lifestyle now — the U.S., Japan, China and the Gulf its strongest rooms abroad — sartoria at the core, sneakers and swim at the edges. Isaia sells the Neapolitan argument entire: tailoring is not a uniform, it's a mood, and the mood is festive.
The summit of Neapolitan tailoring — fully hand-sewn suits from its Arzano ateliers, bespoke and beyond. On 30 April 2026 the Arzano industrial street that has hosted Kiton's headquarters since 1991 was renamed Viale Ciro Paone (ex Viale delle Industrie).
Best for Hand-sewn Neapolitan suits and cashmere outerwear.
Ciro Paone, a fifth-generation Neapolitan fabric merchant, founded Kiton in Arzano in 1968 on a maximalist bet: 'the best of the best plus one' — that a market existed for tailoring with no cost ceiling whatsoever. The factory he built employs hundreds of tailors producing a deliberately limited number of suits, each consuming many hours of handwork in the soft Neapolitan style: floating canvas, shirt shoulders, buttonholes sewn by hand. Kiton buys extraordinary fibers — rare wools and cashmeres, some in vintages like wine — and runs its own tailoring school in Arzano to guarantee the next generation of hands. The house remains family-owned. The suits and sport coats are the summit; the sportswear line carries the fabric obsession into casual clothing. For those who ask what the ceiling of ready-to-wear tailoring looks like, Kiton is the empirical answer.
Handle the fabrics before anything else — the house's rare-fiber cloths explain the prices more persuasively than any salesperson can.
The London House of Naples — Mariano’s dynasty that codified Neapolitan tailoring, Agnelli’s wardrobe. Named London House in 1932 for Gennaro's attachment to English fabrics and to London as the then capital of masculine elegance, while cutting the unpadded Neapolitan opposite of Savile Row.
Best for Bespoke Neapolitan jackets from the dynasty that codified them.
Gennaro Rubinacci opened his 'London House' in Naples in 1932, naming it for the Anglophile tastes of his clientele — and from that atelier, with cutter Vincenzo Attolini, emerged the unstructured Neapolitan jacket: canvas lightened, padding removed, the shoulder left natural, sleeves set with the shirring of the spalla camicia. The style conquered the tailoring world; the house that started it remains in family hands, three generations on, with Mariano Rubinacci and his son Luca presiding over the Naples atelier and outposts in Milan and London. The house archive of vintage cloth — thousands of meters of decades-old fabric — is legendary among tailoring clients, who can commission garments from wools no mill weaves today. Bespoke is the core; ties and a small ready-to-wear line carry the taste outward. For tailoring pilgrims Naples has no more historically consequential door.
Ask to see the vintage cloth archive even as a first-time visitor; commissioning from a decades-old length is the house's singular offer, and the family shows it proudly.
American clothier founded in 1818 and associated with the ready-made suit and the polo button-down collar. May 2025: house opened a 10,000 sq ft global flagship at 195 Broadway, returning downtown near the 1818 Catherine-and-Cherry origin after leaving 346 Madison.
Madison Avenue’s dandy since 1938 — the sharper, wittier cousin of Ivy; Phineas Cole upstairs for the brave. The NYC flagship has remained on the same Madison Avenue and 45th Street corner since the 7 March 1938 opening.
Roman power tailoring since 1945, hand-made in its Penne school-factory — Bond's suits from Abruzzo hands. 1959: Fonticoli opened production in his hometown Penne. 1985: Scuola di Alta Sartoria opened there. it closed 2020 and later reopened (16 students, average age 19; 800 of 1,300 course hours are sewing).
Best for The world's most polished suits.
Brioni solved the problem every luxury craft house eventually faces — where will the next hands come from? — by building a school. In Penne, a hill town in Abruzzo, the house founded in Rome in 1945 runs its own tailoring academy alongside its workshops: young cutters trained for years in the Brioni method before their work ever touches a client, the town and the house grown into one continuous apprenticeship. Roman power tailoring is not just made in Penne; it is taught there, generation after generation, by design.
The result on the hanger is the suit at its most cinematic. Brioni dressed James Bond — the character whose tailoring is a plot point — and the fit that made 007 look invincible is the house signature: strong shoulders, a clean sweep, hand work throughout, the Roman conviction that a suit is armor that should photograph well. Where Naples softened the jacket, Rome polished it; Brioni is that polish at its highest grade.
Every suit is hand-made in the house's own facilities — no license, no outsourcing of the thing itself — which is what the Penne academy protects: a supply chain of skill. Luxury houses can buy fabric, buildings, and campaigns; they cannot buy a town that has been training tailors for them since the postwar years. The world's most polished tailoring, taught, made, and guarded in one place — and measured, fitted, and worn wherever power dresses for the camera.
The Pope's tailor since 1798. Gammarelli has dressed every Pope for over two centuries — white cassocks, red mozzettas, and the scarlet robes of cardinals.
Best for White cassocks, red mozzettas, and the scarlet robes of cardinals
Tailors of the k.u.k. court since 1858 behind Adolf Loos’s 1913 portal — the most beautiful small shopfront in retail; Marlene Dietrich’s tailcoats cut upstairs.
Best for Viennese bespoke, Knize Ten cologne
Knize has tailored in Vienna since 1858 and holds a double distinction: purveyor to the former imperial court, and owner of what may be the most architecturally important small shop in the world — the Graben salon designed by Adolf Loos in 1913, its green marble portal and coolly perfect walnut interior a manifesto of Viennese modernism preserved intact. The house dressed emperors, and Marlene Dietrich famously had her tailoring cut here; Knize Ten, the fragrance created in the 1920s with a bottle design associated with the Loos circle, became one of the first great gentleman's colognes and is still sold at the counter. Bespoke tailoring in the Austrian manner — quieter than the English, more structured than the Italian — continues upstairs. Visit for the Loos rooms even without a commission; leave with Knize Ten, modernism in a bottle.
Step into the Loos salon even just for the fragrance counter; the interior is freely visitable, and Knize Ten's bottle belongs to the same design moment as the walls.
Humanistic capitalism from a restored Umbrian hamlet — cashmere and tailoring made entirely around Solomeo. Cucinelli bought and restored Solomeo's medieval castle/tower as company headquarters after marrying and moving to his wife Federica's hometown. library, 240-seat theatre, and a school for tailoring, gardening and masonry in the hamlet.
Best for Dove-grey cashmere and Italian gentleman dressing.
Brunello Cucinelli built his cashmere house in Solomeo, a fourteenth-century Umbrian hamlet he has progressively restored — theatre, library, vineyards — as the physical expression of what he calls humanistic capitalism: fair wages, dignified hours, profit in proportion. The clothes embody the same philosophy. Cucinelli made his name dyeing cashmere in unexpected colors in the late 1970s, and the house still turns on knitwear: unstructured jackets, layered neutrals, the quietly luxurious wardrobe that came to define 'quiet luxury' before the phrase existed. Everything is made in Italy, much of it in Umbria itself. The Solomeo headquarters is a destination in its own right — a working argument that a factory can be beautiful and a business can be an ethical project. Start with the knitwear; the greys and earth tones are the house's native language.
If visiting Umbria, book lunch in Solomeo itself — the village restaurant and the workshops together are the philosophy made visible, and visitors are welcomed.
Canali has tailored suits in Lombardy since 1934, when brothers Giovanni and Giacomo Canali founded the workshop. Still family-owned and run by the third generation, every garment is made in the company's own Italian factories rather than licensed out.
Best for Precise suits and refined formalwear.
Canali has been making suits in Lombardy since 1934, when brothers Giovanni and Giacomo Canali founded the workshop that three generations later still refuses the industry's favorite shortcut: nothing is licensed out, and every garment is produced in the company's own Italian factories — a vertical integrity even grander names can't claim.
The house style is Milanese propriety with soft engineering — jackets built on light canvassing, shoulders natural, cloth from the best mills, cut for men who want authority without armor. The Kei jacket, unlined and deconstructed, translated the tailoring for a casual century; made-to-measure runs through the flagships for everything else.
Still wholly family-owned and run by the third generation, Canali outfits diplomats, executives and grooms across ninety-odd countries without ever chasing a runway moment. The proposition is almost radical in its patience: excellent suits, made by the same family, in the same country, for as long as anyone asking can remember.
Cagliari tailoring house founded in 1850 by Giovanni Castangia, Sardinia's first bespoke tailor; still cuts and sews everything in its own Cagliari workshop, and has produced for Battistoni and Bergdorf Goodman's Jay Kos label.
Best for Outerwear, Coats, Traditional
Castangia traces its founding to 1850, when Giovanni Castangia opened a tailoring shop in Cagliari, Sardinia - under Savoy rule at the time - described in trade coverage as the first bespoke tailoring house of its kind in Italy. The house built a regional reputation for its fabrics and craftsmanship, received a Royal Warrant from the House of Savoy, and exhibited at the Turin Expo in 1898, the Paris Expo in 1900, and in London in 1911. Castangia is described as Italy's longest continuously running tailoring house still manufacturing everything in its own Cagliari workshop rather than outsourcing production. Beyond its own label, the house has produced garments under the Battistoni name and supplied Bergdorf Goodman's hand-tailored Jay Kos collection. Its client list, per trade press, has included Bill Clinton, Oliver Stone and Silvio Berlusconi.
Mantua tailoring house tracing to Luigi Bianchi's 1911 shop; parent company Lubiam launched the L.B.M. 1911 line of unlined, garment-dyed blazers in 2005 under CEO Giovanni Bianchi, since expanded into a full sportswear wardrobe.
Best for Jersey polos, deconstructed; Casual tailoring, soft jackets
L.B.M. 1911 traces its name and lineage to 1911, when master tailor Luigi Bianchi opened a small tailoring shop in Mantua (Mantova), Italy, continuing a family trade passed down from his great-grandfather, grandfather and father. His son Edgardo Bianchi later industrialized the operation by introducing assembly-line methods to Italian clothing manufacturing, and by 1941 the company had shortened its name to Lubiam, an acronym of 'Luigi Bianchi Mantova.' The L.B.M. 1911 line itself is more recent: in 2005, Giovanni Bianchi, Lubiam's CEO and style director, launched it as a line of unlined, unstructured blazers, moving away from strictly formal tailoring while keeping the sartorial standards of the parent house. The line became known for garment-dyeing - dyeing finished pieces rather than raw fabric - and has since grown into trousers, sweaters, shirts, bags, shoes, belts and scarves alongside its jackets. Manufacturing has remained in Mantua throughout the company's history.
Tracing its line back to around 1720, Stewart Christie & Co on Queen Street is a Scottish bespoke tailor, hand-cutting and finishing suits, jackets and Highland dress. Alongside bespoke and made-to-measure work it stocks tartans, tweeds and ready-to-wear for men and women.
From its 1910 Trivero wool mill to global menswear power — fabric-first tailoring and the Oasi Zegna forest. In the 1930s the founder planted about 500,000 conifers around the mill; the third generation established Oasi Zegna (c. 100 km²) in 1993.
Best for Suiting fabrics, Triple Stitch shoes, and refined menswear.
Most fashion houses buy their cloth. Zegna is its cloth. The house began in 1910 not as a tailor but as a wool mill in Trivero, in the Biella mountains where Italian wool-making concentrated its genius — and everything Zegna has become grows upward from that thread. The Lanificio still weaves in Piedmont; the suits, the Triple Stitch shoes that carried the house into the weekend, the entire menswear power built on top — all of it stands on fabric the family makes itself, fiber to finish.
That vertical truth changes what the brand means. When Zegna promises quality, it is not vouching for a supplier; it is signing its own work at every stage. The mill's pursuit of finer and finer fibers — the endless refinement of wool that behaves like a liquid — is the house's actual R&D, done in the same valley for over a century.
And then there is the founder's largest product. Around the mill, Ermenegildo Zegna planted a forest — Oasi Zegna, a mountainside of conifers and rhododendrons grown over decades into a vast natural park, free to enter, older than most of the company's competitors. It reframes everything: a wool house that understood a century ago that its raw material was landscape, and invested accordingly. Cloth, clothes, and the mountain that grows both — Zegna's supply chain is visible from space, and it is green.
Kente Gentlemen is Aristide Loua's Abidjan-based tailoring label, handmade in Côte d'Ivoire and known for sartorial silhouettes that fuse West African color and pattern with modern menswear cuts. Customers can shop seasonal collections like Dans mon Jardin online or visit the showroom at the Lepic Villa Hotel by appointment.
Best for Tailoring, menswear, ready-to-wear fashion
The shop sells full lengths of named kente patterns, with product pages distinguishing handwoven cloth and silk options. Bespoke enquiries are handled from its Westlands Boulevard head office in Accra.
Best for Authentic handwoven kente cloth and accessories
Abuja Atelier is based on Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent in Wuse 2, where garments are made by hand with local artisans. Fabrics are sourced from both Nigerian and international markets for pieces that draw on African heritage.
Best for Tailored womenswear made with local artisans
Escak Couture works as an Abuja tailor and fashion designer specializing in bridal, bespoke and Afrocentric garments. The house also runs its own fashion academy, teaching couture alongside its custom-wear practice.
Best for Bespoke bridal wear and tailoring lessons
Adjei Anang is a Ghanaian tailor based in Accra who specializes in tailor-made suits. The tailor describes a tailor-made suit as close to a second skin, cut in a slim fit.
Mr. Damtal Custom Tailoring makes bespoke tailoring the shop describes as Ghana made, taking orders directly through WhatsApp. Finished garments are then shipped out to customers anywhere in the world.
Customers can commission leather pieces tailored to their preferences at the Bole Keker workshop and shop. The range includes structured handbags, travel bags, wallets and small accessories, with production handled in Addis Ababa.
Best for Handcrafted Ethiopian leather products including bags, wallets and accessories
Amandah Haute Couture, based in Antananarivo/Ambohipo near CEG, Madagascar, makes custom-made clothing for men, women and children, as stated on its page: "Creation de vetements sur mesure pour homme, femme et enfant." The Facebook fashion-designer page has more than 54,000 followers.
Grand Tailleur by Mr Sylvain is a business in the Ambodihady area of Antananarivo, Madagascar, selling ready-to-wear and made-to-measure suits for men, women and children. Its Facebook page describes it as: "Magasin pour costumes hommes, femmes et enfant; pret a porter et sur mesure."
Mada Costard is a haute couture master tailor in Nanisana, Antananarivo, Madagascar, creating and custom-tailoring men's suits, per its page: "Haute couture, maitre tailleur, creation et sur mesure de tout les types de costume pour homme."
Lito’s Kolonaki basement presents fine jewellery by Lito Karakostanoglou alongside selected objects and curiosities. The cabinet-like setting supports discovery, while appointments suit higher-value gemstone and one-off pieces.
Best for Lito Karakostanoglou's fine jewelry and curiosities in a basement shop
Founded by Sid and Ann Mashburn, this Atlanta menswear and womenswear house builds its reputation on curated tailoring, shirting and accessories. Its shop helped draw attention to the Westside's Howell Mill district.
Hand block prints Bagru and Dabu patterns onto cotton fabric using natural dyes and resists including turmeric, iron, sesame oil, cow dung and mud, a trade the site says it has worked in for more than 110 years. Cloth is sold in 5-metre thaan lengths for saris, kurtis, suits and bedsheets.
Bespoke tailoring house on Bangkok's Sukhumvit Soi 8, established in July 1997 by Narin Bowonnaowarux, who trained at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris and offers fully canvassed, made-to-measure suits.
Best for Bespoke suits and jackets
Narin Couture was established in July 1997 on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok, founded by Narin Bowonnaowarux, whose training combined formal design and construction study at Paris's Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne — the same institution historically tied to French haute couture education. That background shaped a tailoring house built around traditional construction methods rather than off-the-rack alteration.
The shop, located at 180 Soi 8 off Sukhumvit Road in Khlong Toei, combines a working tailoring atelier with a lounge space and has positioned itself at the more technical end of Bangkok's tailoring scene: it was among the first shops in Thailand to adopt 3D body-scanning technology for fitting, and Narin is known for offering fully canvassed suit construction — a labor-intensive technique using an internal structured layer, more associated with higher-end Western tailoring than typical fast-turnaround Bangkok tailors.
The house works primarily with imported cashmere, cotton, and wool cloths, and typical orders — suits and dresses — take around two weeks to complete. Over more than two decades in Bangkok's tailoring trade, the shop has built a clientele that includes political and diplomatic figures alongside private customers, reflecting its position among the city's higher-end bespoke tailoring houses rather than its tourist-facing 24-hour-suit shops.
A family-run bespoke tailor at MBK Center in Pathum Wan, Bangkok, hand-making custom suits, tuxedos, blazers, vests and overcoats for men and women since 2000. Wedding gowns and same-day or home delivery are also offered.
Romanazzi 1930 is a bespoke tailoring house in Turi, Puglia, crafting made-to-measure suits, wedding and ceremony wear from fabrics by Zegna, Holland & Sherry and Drago. Clients book fittings at the Via XX Settembre showroom, where the atelier guides each order from fabric selection through final tailoring.
Best for Bespoke tailoring, made-to-measure suits, wedding wear
Samuel Collezioni has outfitted men in Bari since 1956, running two boutiques on Via Argiro and Via Piccinni that carry brands like Canali, Emporio Armani and Corneliani alongside a made-to-measure tailoring service. The shop offers custom suits, jackets and shirts cut from a wide range of premium fabrics, entirely sewn in Italy.
Best for Custom suits, jackets and shirts sewn in Italy from premium fabrics
Coexist is a Berlin concept store for alternative and sustainable slow fashion, officially opened in 2014 after founder Anna developed her Indyanna label in London. The shop mixes handmade designer pieces and international labels with Indyanna work still made in its own fashion studio and tailor room.
Best for Independent and sustainable fashion from multiple designers
Atelier Moda is a Bern tailoring shop above Coop City Ryfflihof that has spent over 25 years altering, repairing and making custom suits for women and men. Walk-ins are welcome alongside scheduled appointments, and the shop lists per-item pricing on its site, such as hemming trousers from 20 francs.
Best for Custom suits, alterations and repairs for women and men
Biella menswear label founded 1970 by Luciano Barbera, from the family behind the Carlo Barbera wool mill; sold in 2014, then repurchased by the family in 2019.
Best for Soft tailoring, luxury
Luciano Barbera grew out of the Carlo Barbera wool mill in Biella, Italy, which Luciano's father Carlo took full control of in 1949. Luciano Barbera gained early visibility in 1962 when photographer Ugo Mulas shot him for Vogue wearing a suit cut from the family's own fabric; according to brand lore, Louis Boston retailer Murray Pearlstein saw the look during a mill visit and encouraged Luciano to launch his own collection, which he did in 1970. Ownership shifted over the following decades: in 2010 the family sold a controlling stake in the Carlo Barbera mill to the Neapolitan tailoring house Kiton, and by 2014 had also let go of the Luciano Barbera apparel brand itself. The family returned to the label in 2019, repurchasing it and reestablishing it as a family business, with Luciano as part-owner, his daughter Carola Barbera as creative director and managing partner, and his son Lodovico Barbera as global brand ambassador.
Exquisuits by de Juana is a bespoke tailoring house on Gran Vía in Bilbao that traces its craft back to 1840, blending traditional pattern-cutting with a 3D virtual fitting mirror it calls Alta Sastrería 3.0. Beyond made-to-measure suits, shirts and shoes, the atelier also runs Sneakers Atelier for custom trainers and serves grooms across northern Spain.
Best for Bespoke tailoring, made-to-measure suits, shirtmaking, footwear
Sastrería Foraster runs bespoke tailoring showrooms in Bilbao and Madrid, crafting made-to-measure suits, wedding attire and shirts from fabrics sourced from mills like Dormeuil and Holland & Sherry. The Bilbao showroom on Licenciado Poza welcomes clients by appointment for fittings on everything from three-piece suits to custom shoes.
Tailoring in Bologna since 1932, De Paz cuts bespoke suits and shirts from British and Italian cloth and stocks knitwear and ties. The Via Ugo Bassi shop handles both made-to-measure and ready-to-wear menswear.
Italian ceremonial-menswear house founded in the 1980s by Giuseppe Petrelli in Martina Franca, Puglia (Taranto province) — not Bologna; still family-run by his children Italo, Pierangelo and Livianna, specializing in Made in Italy wedding and formalwear suits.
Best for Ceremony suits
Petrelli Uomo was founded in the 1980s by Giuseppe Petrelli in Martina Franca, a town in the Taranto province of Puglia with a longstanding local tailoring and manufacturing tradition. The company built its name on men's ceremonial tailoring — suits for weddings and formal occasions — cut using traditional Italian sartorial methods. After Giuseppe's passing, his three children, Italo, Pierangelo and Livianna Petrelli, took over the business and expanded its collections while keeping production in Italy. Under their direction the brand introduced newer, higher-end ceremony lines — marketed under names including Infinity, Skyline and Etnica — alongside its classic Petrelli Uomo 1941 line, using fabrics such as Super 150s wool and silk-mohair blends. Petrelli Uomo does not sell to consumers from a single flagship; its collections are distributed through a network of independent bridal and ceremony ateliers across Italy, and the company exhibits at trade fairs such as the Fiera Promessi Sposi in Bari. The company's registered office is at Via Massafra 30/b, Martina Franca, Taranto province, Puglia.
CLOSED's Brussels branch at Rue Dansaert 16 represents the German denim and casualwear brand, not a closure marker. The shop is associated with the house's denim, casual tailoring and knitwear.
Best for Quality denim and casual wear from this German brand's Brussels flagship
Atelier Molina is Carlos Molina's Buenos Aires atelier, where each garment, from leather jackets to hand-painted silk dresses, is designed and sewn on site as a one-of-a-kind piece with prices listed on its online shop. The atelier on Malabia street welcomes walk-in shoppers Monday through Saturday and ships finished pieces worldwide.
Joe's Venture, founded in 2017 by Youssef Hazzi, opened a flagship store in 2022 at 28B, St 232, Degla Maadi, Cairo, making handcrafted leather jackets, bags, wallets, accessories and stationery from vintage, pebbled and waxed canvas leather. Jackets are designed in France and manufactured in Egypt, with tailor-made jackets available by appointment.
A working tailoring atelier making theatrical costumes, dancewear, custom drapery and personalized embroidery to measure. The workshop splits its trade between Catania and nearby Aci Sant'Antonio.
Best for Custom tailoring, costumes and embroidery
Bruuns Bazaar makes commercially accessible Scandinavian womenswear and menswear with clean tailoring, knitwear and everyday separates. The range favours coordinated wardrobes and restrained colour over experimental construction.
DLSTUDIO is Copenhagen designer DL Andersen's bespoke atelier in Østerbro, crafting made-to-order garments from European fabrics through personal consultations and multiple fittings, with prices starting at 8,000 DKK. The showroom operates by appointment only and ships finished pieces worldwide.
Copenhagen menswear label founded in 2007 by Victor Lindh and Ulrik Pedersen; the name stands for 'No Nationality,' reflecting a design approach built around individual style and global influence rather than geographic origin.
Best for Copenhagen menswear's soft tailoring and knit polos of quiet, understated ease
NN.07 was founded in Copenhagen in 2007 by two Danish friends, Victor Lindh and Ulrik Pedersen. The brand's name combines their founding philosophy with their launch year: 'NN' stands for 'No Nationality,' expressing an intent to design around individual personality and self-expression rather than national or regional fashion identity, while '07' marks 2007, the year the label began.
The founders' first product was the NN.07 Chino Simon 1000, conceived as a wardrobe staple meant to anchor a modern-casual menswear collection rather than a directional statement piece — an approach that set the tone for the brand's broader focus on soft tailoring, knitwear, and understated, wearable menswear. From early on, the label drew inspiration internationally rather than from a single design tradition, positioning itself as an outward-looking Scandinavian brand rather than one defined narrowly by Danish design conventions.
Sustainability has been part of the brand's stated approach as it has grown, with Lindh and Pedersen describing an intent to think in both short- and long-term terms about the garments they produce. The label remains based in Copenhagen and continues to build collections around the same modern-casual, quietly tailored menswear positioning it launched with in 2007.
Stine Goya makes womenswear in bold prints, vivid colours and flowing silhouettes. Dresses, tailoring and accessories are designed for expressive dressing, while print scale and drape are best judged in person.
Saemi Hanbok tailors and rents traditional Korean dress from its main workshop on Myeongdeok-ro in Nam-gu, with a second location in Seoul's Songpa-gu.
Founded by Gabonese-born designer Tabitha, this appointment-only atelier hand-sketches, cuts and embroiders bespoke garments for weddings, galas and stage, releasing only a handful of pieces each month. Every commission is made entirely in Dakar over roughly three weeks, using hand-draping and hand embroidery that draw on African couture.
Lamine Diasse trained under master tailor Laye Diarra before studying bespoke techniques in France under Jean-Pierre Houee. He founded his couture house in 2005, focusing on custom-made men's suits in Dakar.
A Dakar workshop where a named team of artisans — Saliou in leather, Abdoulaye and Alioune in ready-to-wear — cuts, sews and assembles clothing and accessories by hand. Collections move between wax and bogolan cloth, silk satin, cotton and linen, with fabric offcuts recycled and runs kept deliberately small.
A Doha bespoke menswear and tailoring house. The current mall listing identifies the physical fashion shop.
Best for Bespoke Doha menswear and tailoring
Cellini Signature was founded in Doha in 1999 by Ghazi Al Mannai, whose vision for the brand traces to a trip to Italy in 1984, where he struck up a friendship with a boutique owner named Alessandro in a small spa town. Al Mannai has described that encounter as the spark for building a Qatari retail business run on the same standards of craft and service he encountered there. Cellini's core project has been the modernization of the thobe, the traditional ankle-length garment worn across the Gulf, reworking it through an expanded range of cuts, fabrics, colors, and patterns while keeping its essential form intact — treating a garment often mass-produced elsewhere as a made-to-measure fashion object instead. Al Mannai has maintained close ties to Italy for three decades, traveling there monthly to source fabrics from mills including Loro Piana and Thomas Mason, and sending in-house tailors to train directly with Italian fashion houses rather than relying on imported finished goods alone. He frames the business around three stated principles — passion for fashion, commitment to quality, and attentive service — with an emphasis on letting clients follow their garment through its making, from fabric and buttons to thread, rather than simply buying off a rack. That approach built Cellini into what trade press has described as Qatar's leading name in luxury tailored menswear.
Moonlight Concept is a Qatari fashion house founded in 2011 for women's apparel, from abayas and kaftans to jackets and suits. Pieces are handmade from high-quality fabrics and selected designs can be tailored to measure. The house keeps its main fashion house on Al Waab Street and a gallery in Msheireb Galleria in Doha.
Best for Handpicked womenswear and collector pieces with a regional design focus
Moonlight Concept is a Qatari fashion house founded in 2011 that describes its work as reinterpreting Arab elegance through a contemporary lens. It specialises in women's apparel, ranging from abayas and kaftans to jackets and suits, alongside accessories such as eyewear and fragrance and pieces of home art. The house says its pieces are handmade from high-quality fabrics and are defined by refined craftsmanship and pure lines, with distinctive details. Selected designs can be tailored to a client's own measurements. Its motto, look unique, feel unique, runs across the site. The Art Alphabet Collection turns Arabic calligraphy into a design language and grew from a creative dialogue between Muna Al Kaabi and the artist Ali Hassan. The original store stands on Al Waab Street in Doha, which the house calls its main fashion house. A second space in Msheireb Galleria, Building U02 on Sikkat Wadi Msheireb, serves as its gallery in Msheireb Downtown Doha. Beyond Qatar the label is stocked by Galerie Lafayette and Harvey Nichols, and an online shop ships worldwide by DHL express in the house's signature packaging.
Qatari designer Amna Al-Misned opened TRZI in 2010 and now works from a Msheireb atelier in the Doha Design District where tailors are visible behind a glass divide. The label reworks the abaya and bisht into cuts named T, A, Box and Blazer, and runs repair and redesign services.
Award-winning Qatari designer WAAD, named Designer of the Year at the 2013 Arab Women Awards, makes custom abayas across classic, lace, workwear and evening lines from Doha. Each piece is cut to the client's own measurements and preferences.
The Copeland family has tailored menswear in Dublin since Hyman Coplan arrived from Lithuania in the early 1900s, with the business formalised by Louis Copeland in 1933. The Capel Street flagship and city-centre branches handle made-to-measure suits and ready-to-wear.
Both Edinburgh shops provide bespoke picture framing, backed by a specialist workshop in Leith. The art selection includes many locally based illustrators, so visitors can pair a print purchase with made-to-measure presentation.
Best for Handmade goodies, retro furniture, quirky gifts from local designers
Kinloch Anderson has hand-made kilts, tartan trousers and Highland dress in Edinburgh since 1868 and holds a Royal Warrant. Its premises pair a shop with the workroom, offering sporrans, scarves, tartan throws and cloth by the metre.
Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers, founded in April 2009, is a handmade kiltmaker on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, making kilts and trews in Scottish tartan and tweed and offering made-to-measure tailoring, alterations and repairs.
Veronica Rose Kilts, trading as Rosekilts from Studio 24, Coburg House, Edinburgh, has over 25 years of experience making bespoke handstitched kilts and carrying out alterations, remakes and restoration in tartan, tweed, leather, denim and cotton.
Trading on Eton High Street since 1784, Tom Brown cuts bespoke and made-to-measure suits and has long supplied the town's schoolwear and academic dress. The workroom also produces silk ties, cufflinks, and accessories for Windsor and Eton clientele.
Florentine super-luxury menswear — hand-made silk ties and regal tailoring from its Antico Setificio Fiorentino silk mill.
Best for Imperial silk ties and no-compromise menswear.
Stefano Ricci founded his Florentine house in 1972 on the strength of hand-made silk ties, and built upward from that square of fabric into the most unapologetic super-luxury menswear in Italy — regal tailoring, crocodile and ostrich leathers, gold-plated hardware, eagles everywhere. No diffusion lines, no discounts, no irony.
The house's masterstroke was buying its own history: in 2010 Ricci acquired the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, Florence's ancient silk mill, where looms — some designed from Leonardo's drawings — still weave by hand for the house and for palaces. Production stays entirely in Florence; sons Niccolò and Filippo run the company with their father's absolutism intact.
The clientele is heads of state, dynasts and men for whom the price is the point discreetly made — flagships stand from Palazzo Tornabuoni's neighborhood to Beijing. Stefano Ricci is Florence's maximal answer to quiet luxury: loud craftsmanship, spoken softly, in silk the Renaissance would recognize.
Hanoi's custom ao dai atelier — Vietnamese tunic dresses combining traditional silhouettes with contemporary tailoring and ethnic textile techniques.
Best for Custom ao dai and dresses made to order
Chula Fashion operates a workshop and showroom at 43 Nhật Chiêu in Tây Hồ, Hanoi, specializing in custom ao dai production and contemporary interpretations of Vietnam's traditional dress. Founded by Diego Cortizas, a Spanish architect-turned-designer who has lived in Vietnam since 2004, Chula draws from more than thirteen years of ao dai design experience. The atelier emphasizes preservation of artisanal techniques by incorporating textiles and weaving traditions from Vietnamese ethnic minority groups (Mông, Thái, Cơ Tu peoples). Rather than generic modernization, Cortizas approaches ao dai as a historical garment evolving through contemporary design—using materials rarely seen in traditional contexts to create patterns while maintaining structural integrity. The workshop produces custom orders alongside ready-to-wear pieces, with construction emphasizing clean lines and languid draping that prioritizes ease of movement. The studio represents a philosophical shift toward handmade, slow-fashion approaches in Vietnamese design. The practice directly engages with ethnic minority communities to keep traditional weaving techniques economically viable while adapting them to fashion contexts.
Liberty Tailors was established in 1952 by Khalil Ahmed Parbhoo, known as Solly, starting in a small Salisbury storefront and now run as a third-generation family business at 33 Carsberg Ave, New Alex Park, Harare. In 2013 the tailors altered suits at State House for a wedding in President Mugabe's family.
LIBÉ is a Vietnamese clothing label whose collection focuses on everyday womenswear. Its online range includes denim and dresses, with separates such as halter tops and tailored shorts. In Ho Chi Minh City, its Lý Tự Trọng shop is on the first floor at number 26, distinct from the Nguyễn Trãi branch.
Best for Vietnamese womenswear and everyday separates
A bespoke tailoring studio at 635 Hai Ba Trung Street in Hoi An, founded in 2005, where every garment is cut, sewn and pressed on-site with no outsourcing. Most orders are ready within 24 hours, with international shipping to more than 40 countries.
A bespoke tailor at 117 Phan Chu Trinh in Hoi An offering custom men's and women's suits, dresses, coats and jumpsuits. Garments go through consultation, fabric selection, measurement and fitting stages.
Kimmy Tailor pairs precise measuring with a large in-house fabric library so customers choose cloth and silhouette in the same sitting rather than over several visits. Suits start around $180, a price point the atelier uses to compete with Hoi An's bigger tailoring houses on turnaround and fit rather than volume.
Best for Made-to-measure suits, dresses, and wedding attire
Raja Fashions was founded in 1957 by a tailor who emigrated from northern India to Kowloon and is now run by the fourth generation of the same family. The shop stocks more than 20,000 fabric options for made-to-order suits and dresses, fitted over consultations regulars often repeat across decades.
Best for Custom suiting with an extensive in-house fabric library
Sam's Tailor has cut bespoke suits, shirts and formalwear from its Tsim Sha Tsui shop since 1957 and is now run by the third generation of the founding family. Its client list of diplomats, film stars and royals has made the shop one of the most photographed tailoring counters in Hong Kong, though fittings remain unhurried and old-fashioned.
Best for Bespoke suits with a documented celebrity client history
W.W. Chan traces its cutting technique to the Shanghainese Red Gang tailors who relocated to Hong Kong mid-century, blending English suit construction with Chinese hand-finishing since 1952. Padding, canvassing and buttonholes are still done by hand on a single straight machine per garment.
Best for Full hand-canvassed suits in the Shanghainese tailoring lineage
Steinbock Mode has cut Loden coats and Tracht since Josef and Thusnelda Payr began processing wool textiles in Telfs in 1938, and the label is still run by their grandson from headquarters in Rum, just outside Innsbruck. Three generations on, the workshop still favors boiled-wool jackets and dirndls made for everyday wear over costume pieces.
Best for Loden coats and traditional Tyrolean Tracht
Turkey's oldest ready-to-wear house, founded 1924 in Kayseri by Mustafa Bey. Opened its first Istanbul store in 1962 and began exporting in 1979; now run by the third generation of the founding family under the Hatemoğlu 1924 name.
Best for Formal Wear, Suits
Hatemoğlu was founded in 1924 in Kayseri, central Turkey, by Mustafa Bey, who opened the company's first store selling men's and women's coats and other ready-made garments -- making it, by the company's own account, the oldest ready-to-wear clothing business in Turkey. The company expanded its product range through the 1950s as demand for ready-made clothing grew, and became one of the first Anatolian companies to advertise on Radio Ankara. Hatemoğlu opened its first Istanbul store in 1962, moving the brand from a regional Kayseri business into Turkey's largest city, and made its first export shipment, to Switzerland, in 1979. A 1987 fashion show staged in Uludağ was a further step toward positioning the brand nationally rather than as a regional tailoring house. The company remains under the control of the founding family, now in its third generation, trading under the 'Hatemoğlu 1924' name that references the founding year directly. It later added a separate contemporary label, '@html,' introduced in 2003, and launched Hatem Saykı in 2005 as a further extension of the family's clothing business. The core Hatemoğlu line continues to focus on men's formal and business tailoring, built on the company's century of continuous family ownership.
Raniwala 1881 works by appointment on jadau, polki and gemstone jewellery, including substantial wedding pieces. The consultation format suits clients comparing stones, settings and custom details rather than making an impulse purchase.
Best for Jadau, polki, gemstone, and traditional wedding jewelry by appointment
Rohit Kamra designs contemporary Indian menswear, including achkans, bandhgalas and wedding clothing. The Jaipur store suits occasion clients who need fabric selection, coordinated layers and fittings rather than ready-made casualwear.
Best for Contemporary achkans, bandhgalas, and wedding menswear
Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta (flagship), with galleries across Jakarta
Iwan Tirta Batik continues the archive of Iwan Tirta (1935–2010), the Yale-trained lawyer who studied with royal batik makers in Surakarta and created more than 10,000 designs. The house sells menswear, womenswear, fabrics, accessories and home pieces from that archive, with bespoke tailoring; its current official store list includes Iwan Tirta Home on Jalan Wijaya XIII plus Plaza Indonesia, Plaza Senayan, Pondok Indah Mall 2 and Alun-Alun Indonesia at Grand Indonesia.
Best for Hand-drawn batik continuing a Javanese maestro's 10,000-design archive
Iwan Tirta was born Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja in 1935 in Blora, Central Java, and trained as a lawyer at Yale Law School. His path changed in the 1960s when a research project on the sacred court dances of Central Java drew him toward batik; rather than learning the craft from family, as most batik makers did, he apprenticed under royal batik makers inside the Surakarta palace.
Tirta spent years documenting batik traditions across Indonesian villages, publishing his first book on the subject in 1962. Through the 1970s and 1980s he is credited with an early revival of batik as fashion design, staging elaborate runway collections built on Javanese court motifs; his cloth was worn by public figures including South African president Nelson Mandela.
By his death in 2010, Tirta had created more than 10,000 original batik designs, an archive the brand bearing his name still draws from. Today the label produces menswear, womenswear, fabrics, scarves and bags, and home textiles alongside bespoke tailoring and corporate commissions, positioning itself as custodian of his design record rather than a successor designer.
Founded in 2007 by designer Tiaan Nagel, the label's main studio is at 235A Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown North, with a flagship store at Hyde Park Corner offering made-to-measure womenswear, styling consultation and bespoke tailoring, plus works by African artists and makers. The Summer 19/20 collection drew on South African studio pottery.
Yimba Fashions is a Makindye-based tailoring house that turns kitenge and other African-print fabric into custom-made clothing, accessories, and home pieces, and runs guided shopping tours through Kampala's downtown fabric markets. Beyond retail, the social enterprise trains young tailors through a six-month design program, making the workshop both a maker and a skills incubator.
The brand produces tailor-made and ready-made clothing along with accessories such as bags, mirrors and baskets, home decor pieces, and children's clothing, all made in Rwanda. Operating since 2012 from its store in Kigali, it is founded and managed by designer Joselyne Umutoniwase.
Polish menswear brand tracing to a 1948 Krakow state garment factory; the Vistula label itself launched in 1967, shifting focus fully to menswear the year before. Today operated by Krakow-headquartered VRG S.A., alongside sister brands Bytom and Wolczanka.
Best for Suits, Casualwear
Vistula's roots go back to 1948, when Krakowskie Zaklady Przemyslu Odziezowego was established under Poland's post-war state industrial system. The company began export production in 1961, and in 1966 discontinued women's clothing lines in favor of menswear. The Vistula brand name has been used on the Polish market since 1967. The business has since consolidated into VRG S.A., a Krakow-headquartered capital group that also owns the Bytom and Wolczanka clothing brands, plus the jewelry and watch retailer W.KRUK.
Al Syed Tailors has cut made-to-measure dishdashas in Kuwait City since 1972, training staff in the distinct silhouettes worn in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. The shop kept working through the Gulf War and other disruptions, and now runs five branches across the city under the same family ownership.
Best for Made-to-measure dishdasha and thobe tailoring
La Pièce, a showroom at 110 Saksahanskoho Street in Kyiv that began in May 2025 as an intimate womenswear space before expanding into a full multibrand concept in May 2026, sells dresses, skirts, bodysuits, blouses, outerwear, corsets, suits, jewellery, shoes and bags from Ukrainian designers, plus made-to-measure tailoring.
Aries Vogue offers bespoke and made-to-order men's and women's wear from Ikeja, Lagos state, with custom fits and worldwide shipping. Its page describes the pieces as "timeless, tailored for you."
Adetayo Adeyeye founded Taryor Gabriels in 2013, opening stores in Lagos and Texas for bespoke menswear. The house combines Savile Row tailoring traditions with African design elements in its suits and traditional wear.
Best for Bespoke menswear and traditional tailoring
Mulata is a Peruvian clothing line of handmade, knitted and tailored pieces, including dresses and swimwear, with jewellery by Mestiza. The shop is at Miguel Dasso 126, store 305, San Isidro.
OÖ Heimatwerk has dressed Upper Austrians in regional costume for more than 70 years, running an in-house Maßatelier that hand-tailors Dirndl, Tracht, and Goldhauben, the ornate gold-thread bonnets traditionally worn by married women in the Linz region. Beyond its own dirndl and leather-trouser collections, the shop carries regional handwork such as Hallstatt ceramics and linens, and still alters garments made decades earlier.
Antonio de Sa Atelier is a Lisbon made-to-measure tailoring house on Praca do Chile that has fitted suits and shirts for 25 years, guiding clients through a choice, fitting and delivery process. The atelier partners exclusively with tailor Eduardo Bosch and takes fittings only by appointment.
Savile Row-trained tailoring house whose signature shirt is the one-piece hidden button-down — a generous roll, no neck buttonhole, cut on the house block.
Best for The British one-piece hidden button-down.
The inspiration for Kingsman — the single-button jacket, the equestrian heritage, and the Savile Row house that dressed Gregory Peck and the Duke of Windsor.
Best for Single-button jacket, Kingsman inspiration, and the most cinematic tailor on the Row.
ME+EM builds women’s wardrobes around precise cuts, strong fabrics and details intended to improve fit or versatility. The range spans tailoring, knitwear, dresses and travel-friendly separates rather than trend-led capsules alone.
Founded in 2002 by Oliver Spencer, who started on a stall in London's Portobello Market before opening his first shop on Lamb's Conduit Street; unstructured tailoring cut from British and Italian mill cloth.
Best for Relaxed British polos; Relaxed British tailoring
Oliver Spencer left art school for a stall in London's Portobello Market, where he developed the tailoring skills that became the basis of his eponymous menswear label, launched in 2002. He had already founded the formalwear brand Favourbrook and started Oliver Spencer as a counterpoint to it — clothing built with tailoring craftsmanship but cut for a more relaxed, modern fit rather than traditional structure. The label's first shop opened on Lamb's Conduit Street in London, and Spencer staged his first runway show in a Covent Garden warehouse in 2005 before expanding into stores across Bloomsbury, Marylebone, Soho, and Shoreditch. The collections center on unstructured suiting, shirts in organic cotton and linen, and knitwear, sourced from British and Italian mills and made in European factories and workshops the brand describes as among the best available for its production standards. Oliver Spencer has since been stocked by department stores including Harvey Nichols and Liberty London, alongside an international online business, and the brand has built a public sustainability program around repair and reuse of its garments.
British menswear brand founded 1975—contemporary tailored clothing in knitwear, outerwear, shirting, blazers, footwear, and accessories with sharp working-class styling.
Best for Mod tailoring
Peter Werth founded his London menswear label in 1975 in Islington, north London. The brand's early inspiration drew from sharper, more formal styling traditions rooted in working-class 1970s culture. Collections evolved from contemporary knitwear through outerwear, shirting, blazers, and fine jerseywear into shoes and accessories—building a comprehensive wardrobe. The brand emphasizes 'high quality British contemporary menswear' with classic wardrobe essentials and seasonal collections. Product categories span long and short-sleeved shirts, polo shirts and t-shirts, knitwear (sweatshirts and jumpers), coats and jackets, footwear (formal shoes, casual shoes, boots, loafers, brogues, sandals), and accessories (bags, wallets, belts, hats, scarves, gloves). Peter Werth navigated significant challenges during the 2008 financial crisis, entering administration in 2011 and placing 70 jobs at risk before JD Sports acquired the brand, intellectual property, and stock. The acquisition saved 68 jobs at Peter Werth concessions. The brand relaunched with fresh direction and new website presence in October 2019, re-establishing itself after a period of market absence. The brand continues to offer flexible payment methods and regular sales alongside core collections.
Founded in September 1992 by designer Richard James and partner Sean Dixon at a small shopfront at 37a Savile Row, London. One of the first of the 'New Establishment' tailors, blending traditional English cut with color and softer lines.
Best for Modern tailoring, colour
Richard James opened his eponymous house in September 1992 with business partner Sean Dixon, taking a small, then-derelict shopfront at 37a Savile Row that had no running water. It was the smallest shop on the street at the time; the landlord handed over the keys without asking for a deposit. James, a graduate of Brighton College of Art and a former buyer for the London boutique Browns, set out to keep the strong, flattering cut associated with Savile Row tailoring while injecting color and irreverence -- bright cashmere knitwear, satin ties, and suits finished in unexpected shades such as pink, lime, or mustard. The shop also broke with Row convention by opening on Saturdays, drawing a younger clientele of artists, actors, and creatives alongside its traditional legal and finance customers. Richard James is generally credited as the first of the 'New Establishment' tailors -- the wave of designers who arrived on Savile Row in the 1990s and pushed it toward a more fashion-conscious identity without abandoning bespoke craft. The house went on to win the British Fashion Council's Bespoke Designer of the Year and Menswear Designer of the Year awards. In March 2024, Richard James unveiled a new flagship, 'The House of Richard James,' at 29 Savile Row, consolidating its bespoke and ready-to-wear operations more than three decades after the original 37a opening.
The street that invented the suit — two centuries of bespoke tailoring, Henry Poole, Gieves & Hawkes, Huntsman, and the golden mile of British menswear.
Best for Two centuries of bespoke tailoring on Savile Row
Nazrana Chikan was established in 1981 and is now run by three generations of the same family, supporting more than 10,000 karigars in GI-certified chikankari embroidery on kurtis, suits, sarees, lehengas and men's kurtas in cotton, georgette, silk, chanderi and organza. It has stores in Janpath and Nirala Nagar in Lucknow and in Chandigarh's Elante Mall.
Chitenge Galore, based in Zambia, offers custom fashion design and tailoring including alterations, bridal and event wear and corporate wear. Its Instagram feed shows tailored dresses, wedding wear and jumpsuits made to order.
The Devï Shopping Bar offers made-to-measure clothing collections named Pashmina, Suzani, Sari, Cotton and Leftover, including blazers, kimonos, dresses and jewelry. Customers can book private in-boutique or video consultations for tailoring in Luxembourg.
Best for Made-to-measure pashmina and sari-inspired fashion
Tailoring bullfighters' trajes de luces since 1978 from two Madrid workshops near Puerta del Sol and in Las Rozas, Justo Algaba has dressed matadors including Curro Romero and Morante de la Puebla and keeps an in-house museum of roughly 100 historic suits.
Best for Trajes de luces and historic bullfighting tailoring
Justo Algaba has been tailoring trajes de luces - the elaborately embroidered suits worn by bullfighters - since 1978, out of two Madrid workshops, one near Puerta del Sol and a second in Las Rozas. The client list runs through some of the bullring's most recognized names, including Curro Romero, Juan José Padilla and Morante de la Puebla, work that has built the house's reputation within the taurine world specifically rather than fashion generally. That specialism has carried outward into adjacent costume work: Algaba has made ecclesiastical vestments, opera wardrobe and formal wedding wear, dressed the tenor Plácido Domingo, and produced costumes for film and stage productions including Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella, with pieces from the workshop having appeared in productions as far afield as London and Sydney. The Madrid workshop also houses a private museum of roughly 100 historic and avant-garde trajes de luces, letting visitors see the embroidery and construction up close rather than only on a matador in the ring. Between the two sastrerías, the museum, and the sideline into opera and film costume, Justo Algaba reads less as a single tailor shop than as a working archive of a very specific Spanish craft, still taking commissions from the same world it started in.
Spanish bespoke tailoring — three generations of tailors, modern takes on traditional suits with Matador-influenced colors. Caterina Panera and Paul Garcia de Oteyza's photogenic duo.
Best for Matador-influenced Spanish bespoke tailoring
Heritage Barong tailors made-to-measure barong tagalog in Lumban, offering classic sheer styles and coat barongs built around choices of fabric, embroidery and construction. Orders are placed remotely through detailed forms, with an at-home fitting sample, a perfect-fit guarantee and worldwide shipping.
Best for Barong Tagalog, custom tailoring, hand embroidery
Family-run Manila tailoring house rooted in a tradition the Arienza family has kept since the 1960s. Napoleon Arienza, trained at Brioni in Rome, opened the current Makati shop in 2012, working in Holland & Sherry cloth.
Best for Bespoke Manila suits and individual paper patterns
Tiño Suits & Tailoring traces its roots to a family tailoring tradition the Arienza family has run since the 1960s. Its present form centers on Napoleon Arienza, a tailor born in Tarlac who trained at the House of Brioni in Rome before returning to the Philippines to continue the family trade. In the 1990s, while working under the Brioni name, Arienza made a suit for Pierce Brosnan around the period the actor took on the role of James Bond — a commission still cited as a marker of the house's technical standing. Arienza opened the current Makati shop in 2012, at the Herco Center on Benavidez Street in Legazpi Village, stocking premium cloth including Holland & Sherry suiting from London. The shop positions itself as one of Manila's bespoke houses working in classic construction rather than made-to-measure production lines, continuing the hand-tailoring practice the family has kept since the shop's mid-century start.
Melbourne menswear label founded in 1989 by Gary Zecevic, opening its first store in South Yarra; remains family-owned, focused on tailored-casual pieces in Italian wools and cotton jersey.
Best for Australian smart casual
Calibre is a Melbourne-founded menswear label started in 1989 by Gary Zecevic, who opened the brand's first store in South Yarra. The label's focus from the outset was tailored-casual menswear - blending classic tailoring construction with a slimmer, more casual silhouette, using materials such as Italian wool and cotton jersey. Zecevic has described the Calibre name as a nod to his standard for quality and fit. The company remains family-owned and Melbourne-based, with in-house design. Calibre now sells through its own stores as well as multi-brand retailers such as David Jones, and operates shop locations in centres including Burnside Village (Adelaide) and Emporium Melbourne.
Melbourne label opened by Joe Saba in 1965 as the Joseph Saba Shirt and Sweater Shop on Flinders Lane; the Saba brand launched in 1974. Sold to Daniel and Danielle Besen in 2002, then to the Apparel Group in 2005, which moved headquarters to Sydney.
Best for Australian tailored clothing
Joe Saba, an Australian designer of Lebanese descent born in 1940, opened his first shop at 287 Flinders Lane in Melbourne in 1965. He launched a denim label called Staggers in 1969, and in 1974 established the Saba label itself, which expanded to menswear and womenswear and grew to as many as 17 stores. In the 1980s, Saba's stores also sold Japanese avant-garde designers Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto in the Australian market. Joe Saba won the Australian Fashion Menswear Award in 1996. He sold the business to Daniel and Danielle Besen in 2002; the Apparel Group acquired Saba in 2005 and relocated its head office from Melbourne to Sydney shortly after.
Formalwear house founded in 1914 in Tripoli by the Musani family; relocated to Italy in 1967 and is now headquartered in Milan, producing made-to-measure ceremony and wedding wear for men and women.
Best for Italian ceremony suits and evening dresses
Musani Couture traces its origins to 1914, when the Musani family founded it as a tailoring workshop in Tripoli, expanding through several stores in the Libyan capital by the 1950s. The company relocated to Italy in 1967 and re-established itself in Milan, where it remains headquartered today. The house is built around ceremony and formal-occasion dressing rather than everyday ready-to-wear: it launched its first women's formalwear collection in 1980 and added a dedicated men's ceremony line in 2012. Its current collections span both genders - Musani Couture (tailored and cocktail pieces), Musani Sfilata (evening and "jewel" dresses), Musani Curvy and bridesmaid dresses on the women's side, and Musani Uomo, Wedding 2.0 (groomswear), Diciottesimo Uomo and Daniel Uomo by Musani on the men's side. Musani describes its garments as cut and sewn to each client's own proportions rather than produced as standard sizing, using hand-finished detailing and, in some pieces, precious-stone embellishment. Rather than operating as a single flagship storefront, Musani distributes through a network of partner boutiques specializing in formal and bridal wear across Italy and internationally.
Musella Dembech is a Milan tailoring atelier. Gianfrancesco Musella started working with his father Francesco at the age of eleven, and the atelier favours an older three-ply cool wool for blazers and suits.
Best for Milan tailoring, with blazers and suits in three-ply cool wool
Fittings at Musella Dembech are arranged ahead of time, and the atelier asks clients to call or email to set up an appointment. Say what you want made when you first get in touch.
Alexander Kraft Monte Carlo pairs Savile Row-inspired tailoring with Italian craftsmanship, selling its own-label jackets, shirts and accessories both online and from a flagship store on Avenue Saint-Michel in Monte Carlo. Founded in 2020 by namesake designer Alexander Kraft, the label now ships to loyal customers in more than 25 countries and refreshes its collections through a Finely Krafted weekly magazine.
Best for Savile Row-inspired tailoring, jackets, and shirts from the Avenue Saint-Michel flagship
Maison Moghadam, at 39 Boulevard des Moulins in Monaco, offers a large library of fabrics and wallpapers, handcrafted rugs made in workshops in India and Nepal, and furniture designed in Monaco and handmade in ateliers in Portugal. The company has operated for over seventy years.
Takun says all its garments are designed and made by women in Uruguay, operating from a workshop in Lagomar, Montevideo. It offers custom tailoring and sizing consultations, with home delivery or pickup at its central Montevideo location or the Lagomar workshop.
Montreal womenswear label based at 410 Villeray Street, founded by Christine and Laurie starting with recycled-leather accessories before expanding into full clothing made locally.
Best for Montreal womenswear label designing and producing clothing and accessories locally
Cokluch is a Montreal-based women's clothing brand founded by two friends, Christine and Laurie, who began by making recycled-leather accessories before growing into full apparel collections. The label designs and produces its clothing in Montreal, emphasizing local manufacturing, natural materials, and increasing use of fabrics also made in Montreal, positioned around sustainability and ethical, responsible fashion. In 2015 the brand extended into childrenswear with the Cokluch Mini line, for children aged two to six. The business operates from 410 Villeray Street in Montreal's Villeray neighborhood, selling through its own site and Montreal-area stockists.
Kunal Rawal designs contemporary Indian menswear, including sherwanis, bandgalas and fusion tailoring for weddings. Embroidery, layering and custom fit make consultation important for substantial occasion purchases.
BeSpoke by Martin Tailors says it will help customers pick the right suits to style their needs. It describes taking clients through fitting inch by inch for well fitted clothing.
Nawiri, based at Ambience Mall on Ring Road Westlands, sells size-inclusive clothing for African women including tailored trousers, wrap dresses and co-ord sets, produced locally in small batches by Kenyan artisans. It offers one-hour private fitting sessions by appointment, with prices from KSh1,200 to KSh6,500.
The Textile Loft designs, cuts and tailors dresses, jumpsuits, coats and accessories in-house in Kenya, using natural materials, cut stones, leather, brass and wood, and prints its own fabric. It has been featured in the New York Times, BBC World Service and CGTN Europe, and sells through a village market store and digital shop.
Antica Sartoria Napoletana tailors garments using traditional Neapolitan techniques (tecniche tradizionali napoletane) and Tasmania 120s wool. Its master tailors offer Drop 4 and Drop 6 cuts in regular and slim fits.
Menswear trouser maker founded in 2015 in Italy's Campania region, working within the Neapolitan tailoring tradition; specializes in artisanal ready-to-wear trousers.
Best for Campania trousers and modern tailoring
Be Nice was founded in 2015 as an artisanal menswear manufacturer positioned within the Neapolitan tailoring tradition, based in Italy's Campania region. It specializes in luxury ready-to-wear trousers, with the brand describing an emphasis on refined detailing.
Naples tailoring house founded in 1954 by Renato Ciardi after an eight-year apprenticeship under tailor Luigi Blasi; now run by his sons Enzo and Roberto, known for a bias-cut chest canvas in their bespoke suits.
Best for Handmade Shirts
Sartoria Ciardi was opened in Naples in 1954 by Renato Ciardi. His own father had been a well-known barber in the city, but as a left-handed man Renato was steered away from that trade in 1930s Naples and instead apprenticed for eight years under Luigi Blasi, a prominent Neapolitan tailor of the period, before setting up on his own. Renato's sons, Enzo and Roberto, joined the workshop in their late teens and have run the atelier together since. Sartoria Ciardi's suits follow the broad conventions of Neapolitan tailoring but are noted by specialist menswear writers for a distinctive technique of cutting the chest canvas on the bias - giving it more stretch and comfort than the straight-grain cut many other Neapolitan houses use. The house is well documented in bespoke-tailoring press, including a full commissioned-suit review by menswear writer Simon Crompton's Permanent Style.
Naples menswear house founded in 1878 by Scottish textile importer Michael Gutteridge, first at Piazza Dante then Via Toledo's Palazzo Zevallos di Stigliano; acquired by the Capri Group in 1997 and relaunched as a multi-brand retailer.
Best for Entry-level Neapolitan tailoring.
Gutteridge was founded in 1878 in Naples by Michael Gutteridge, a Scottish entrepreneur whose first shop, on Piazza Dante, imported cotton and wool textiles sourced partly through his father-in-law, a Yorkshire textile manufacturer. The business soon expanded into a second, larger space inside Palazzo Zevallos di Stigliano on Via Toledo, a building designed by the baroque architect Cosimo Fanzago. What began as a fabric warehouse grew into a multi-brand retailer and, eventually, a mail-order business reaching customers across Europe. The Naples name held its place as a fixture of the city's retail history for more than a century until 1997, when the Capri Group acquired the historic Via Toledo premises and relaunched Gutteridge as a contemporary multi-brand menswear retailer while keeping its Anglo-Neapolitan identity. The brand today trades on that mixed heritage — English textile-trading roots paired with a Neapolitan tailoring sensibility — across its stores and online shop.
Neapolitan bespoke tailoring house founded by Renato Ciardi, who apprenticed under Maestro Angelo Blasi from the late 1940s and opened his first atelier on Via Toledo in 1955 before moving to Via Fiorelli 12. Now run by his sons Enzo and Roberto (Vincenzo), continuing the house's soft-shouldered Neapolitan silhouette.
Best for Neapolitan bespoke
Sartoria Ciardi is a bespoke tailoring house in Naples founded by Renato Ciardi, born in 1934, who began his apprenticeship under Maestro Angelo Blasi in the late 1940s. Ciardi opened his first atelier on Via Toledo in 1955 before later relocating to Via Fiorelli 12, where the house remains based. Renato Ciardi became one of the best-known figures in postwar Neapolitan tailoring, developing a soft-shouldered, lightly structured jacket construction associated with the broader Neapolitan tailoring tradition, distinct from the more padded, structured silhouettes of English or Milanese tailoring. After his death, the sartoria passed to his sons, referred to in different sources as Enzo and Roberto, or Roberto and Vincenzo; one son serves as the house's cutter, a deliberate choice intended to keep a single, consistent hand and silhouette on every garment produced rather than dividing cutting duties among multiple tailors. The house continues to produce fully bespoke jackets, suits and coats using traditional hand construction methods, and is regularly cited in menswear and tailoring press, including detailed reviews from outlets such as Permanent Style, as one of the reference houses for the Neapolitan style associated with the city's postwar tailoring lineage.
Sartoria Dalcuore is associated with soft-shouldered Neapolitan jackets shaped through handwork and proportion. The atelier is relevant for bespoke clients who value fittings and a house cut over immediate ready-to-wear selection.
Founded in 1941, this Naples leather-jacket house is run by master craftsman Alfredo Rifugio from a workshop in Pompei; each jacket is entirely hand-sewn, some using over 2,000 stitches and up to 80 hours of work across ten artisans.
Bespoke menswear tailor founded 1954 in Naples by Aristide Tofani, a former apprentice of Vincenzo Attolini; now run by his sons and nephew, based on Via Monte di Dio in the Chiaia district.
Best for Bespoke shirts, tailoring
Sartoria Tofani was founded in 1954 by Aristide Tofani, who trained under Vincenzo Attolini - a formative figure in the modern Neapolitan tailoring style - before opening his own atelier in Naples. Aristide passed the trade to the next generation: his sons Davide and the younger Aristide, and his nephew Enea, who now carry on the house's bespoke menswear practice. Every garment is described as fully handmade in Naples following traditional Neapolitan cutting and sewing methods. The atelier is located at Via Monte di Dio 3c, within Naples's Chiaia quarter, the historic tailoring district.
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