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.
Neapolitan shirting house since 1964 — hand-passed shoulders and the ease of Neapolitan dress shirts.
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.
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.
Chiaia shirtmaking institution — Neapolitan collars cut for three generations; one-piece collar available on bespoke commission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Neapolitan shirtmaker of the hand-sewn buttonhole — shirts with the soft collar roll the world copies.
Martino and Federico Cilento established the Neapolitan house in 1780; it now trades from Palazzo Ludolf on the Riviera di Chiaia.
Masel focuses on Casalnuovo shirtmaking, Neapolitan luxury shirting from the historic white-arts district.
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.
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.
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.