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 Brioni Bespoke experience — fully custom suiting from measurement to final stitch, with fittings in Rome and the Penne atelier producing one suit at a time.
Best for Fully custom, Rome fittings, and the expression of Roman tailoring.
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
Bespoke menswear atelier opened in 2000 on Via di Ripetta near Piazza del Popolo in Rome by tailor Andrea Luparelli, following his grandfather's trade. Bespoke only, no made-to-measure line; also produces raincoats, suede jackets, ties and leather travel bags.
Best for Roman bespoke, modern
Sartoria Ripense is a bespoke menswear atelier on Via di Ripetta in Rome, close to Piazza del Popolo, opened in 2000 by tailor Andrea Luparelli. Luparelli has said his interest in tailoring began in childhood, watching his grandfather - also a tailor - work. The atelier offers bespoke suits and made-to-order clothing built from scratch for each client, deliberately without a made-to-measure line. Beyond suits, Sartoria Ripense also makes raincoats, suede jackets, ties, pocket squares, shirts and leather travel bags, often working with vintage or archival fabrics.
A small artisan clothing business at Via Gaetano Luporini in Rome, run by Ulyana Yavorska, producing handmade leather jackets and knitwear for men alongside a women's line, with private-label wholesale for other boutiques.
Best for Fashion clothing, leather; Fashion
Yavorska is a small Rome-based clothing operation registered at Via Gaetano Luporini 37a, run by Ulyana Yavorska and described in an Italian B2B wholesale directory as producing handmade apparel. Its men's line centers on leather jackets, sport jackets, and knitwear made with premium yarns, alongside a women's line of dresses, blouses, and outerwear. The business positions itself as an atelier offering private-label and white-label manufacturing services for other boutiques and emerging labels, in addition to its own small-batch pieces.
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