59 stores · curated ORBIS register
Dhaka / Bangladesh / Online
Born of BRAC in 1978 to bring rural Bangladeshi craft to market, Aarong grew into the country's beloved lifestyle house — jamdani, nakshi kantha, brass, leather and clothing from tens of thousands of artisan hands. The flagship in Dhaka is the front door of an entire craft economy.
Best for Handcrafted Bengal craft from 65,000 artisans
Milan / Online
Antonioli is a Milan concept store founded in 1987 by Claudio Antonioli, now at Via Paolo Paoli 1 (a former silent-cinema building) since 2003, curating avant-garde and emerging international fashion labels.
Best for Rick-to-Raf avant-garde.
<p>Claudio Antonioli opened his first shop on Milan's Piazza Lima in 1987, selling international names Italy barely knew yet — and betting that the city's appetite for the avant-garde was larger than its retailers believed. In January 2003 the store moved into Via Paolo Paoli 1, a building that housed one of Milan's silent-film cinemas in the 1920s; Storage Associati handled the renovation, Vincenzo De Cotiis added an extension in 2009, and the result is retail as dark theatre — concrete, shadow, and rails of black.</p><p>The position never softened: directional and avant-garde labels over mainstream luxury, the Rick Owens-and-onward axis given its Milanese embassy. E-commerce arrived in June 2008, carrying the store's styling service online, and the Antonioli name became shorthand across Europe for a particular uncompromising taste.</p><p>The taste eventually bought a house outright: in 2020 Antonioli acquired Ann Demeulemeester — the Antwerp poet of this same window — turning a retailer's conviction into ownership. The cinema on Via Paolo Paoli remains the mothership: Milan's dark-luxury authority, projecting since 1987.</p>
Germany
German menswear house in Herford tracing to Friedrich Wilhelm Brinkmann's 1947 clothing manufacturer in nearby Lohne; the bugatti label launched in 1978, added womenswear in 2011, and is still run by the Brinkmann family alongside sister brands Eduard Dressler, Wilvorst and Pikeur.
Best for Suits, coats, and shoes from Herford's accessible German menswear house
Bugatti Fashion traces to a contract clothing manufacturer for women's and men's wear founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Brinkmann in Lohne, near Herford, on 6 January 1947. Its success led him to launch his own first collection of coats and trousers the following year. The bugatti brand itself was launched in 1978 as a menswear specialist, adding a women's line in 2011, and later expanding into accessories, shoes, luggage, homewear and underwear from 1990 onward, largely through licensing. Now run by the second and third generation of the Brinkmann family, the company has grown into a significant German clothing group over more than 75 years, operating across a stable of brands that includes bugatti itself alongside Eduard Dressler, Wilvorst and Pikeur.
Paris / Online
Parisian womenswear house founded in 1963 by Raphaël Levy and Joseph Bigio, originally specializing in sweaters; expanded into full ready-to-wear in 1980, opened its own boutiques and listed on the Bourse in 1984 as Caroll International.
Best for Polished workwear staples and feminine tailoring
Caroll was founded in Paris in 1963 by Raphaël Levy and Joseph Bigio, starting out as a specialist in women's sweaters aimed at a free-spirited, modern customer. The brand broadened into a full ready-to-wear collection in 1980, and by 1984 had opened its own boutiques and listed on the Paris stock exchange under the name Caroll International. In 1988 the company came under the ownership of Groupe André (later part of Vivarte), and in 1994 it consolidated its identity under the 'Caroll Paris' label. Through the 1980s and beyond, Caroll built a strong position in French department stores and became a fixture of mainstream Parisian ready-to-wear, later expanding internationally through boutiques, franchise partners and department-store concessions. The brand's collections today span dresses, trousers, blouses, jackets, coats and accessories, with a positioning the company describes as feminine, modern, timeless and intergenerational — retaining the polished, tailored identity it built over six decades as a French high-street staple.
2044 Rue Metcalfe, Montreal, QC H3A 1X8 / Montreal / Canada
Founded 1971 by Janet Dawidowicz as Montreal's first used-record shop; The Link dates the current 2044 Metcalfe floor to the 1984 move.
Best for Used records from a Montreal shop founded in 1971.
Paris / Online
French heritage brand founded 1979, crafting leather jackets and durable workwear built on aviation and adventure wear traditions for over four decades.
Best for Flight jackets and Togs Unlimited leather in an 80s Paris-Americana style
Chevignon was established in 1979 in France by observing how aviation jackets and workwear held up under years of heavy use. The brand built its reputation on full-grain leather jackets, particularly flight and bomber styles, using the same construction standards since its first aviator jacket. Each Chevignon garment emphasizes durability and develops character with age—leather pieces patina naturally over time, growing more distinctive with wear. The label expanded its focus to include high-quality denim alongside leather outerwear. Chevignon operates in both the US and internationally through direct retail and partnerships with retailers like Grailed and Vestiaire Collective. The brand positions itself on continuous improvement and eco-conscious design, targeting customers who appreciate authentic products engineered to withstand weather and time.
Paris / France / Online
Parisian ready-to-wear house founded 1984 by designer Claudie Pierlot, known for precise, tailored 'Parisienne' silhouettes. Now owned by SMCP (also home to Sandro and Maje) after a 2009 acquisition, with about 250 points of sale worldwide.
Best for Parisian dresses, cropped jackets and polished everyday tailoring
Claudie Pierlot was born in 1947 in Troyes, a town long tied to French textile manufacturing, and founded her eponymous womenswear label in Paris in 1984. Her design signature was precise, tailored clothing - structured jackets, cropped trousers, fitted dresses - built around an idea of understated Parisian style rather than directional fashion-week statements, aimed at a customer who wanted consistency season to season. The house built a loyal, largely French following through the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s on that basis. Pierlot died at the age of 61, having already sold her company to the French group SMCP in 2009; creative direction afterward passed to Evelyne Chetrite and Judith Milgrom, the sisters who also run the Sandro label within the same group. SMCP formally united Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot as a single fashion group in 2010, later added the menswear house Fursac, and listed the combined group on the Paris stock exchange in 2017. Today Claudie Pierlot operates through roughly 250 points of sale and employs close to 700 people across its stores and wholesale accounts in Europe, while its design studio and collections remain kept distinct from its SMCP sister brands.
28 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel / Tel Aviv / Israel
Israeli fashion house founded 1987 by Sybil Goldfiner and Carole Godin; designs and produces in Tel Aviv (official history; Time Out Israel).
Best for Israeli fashion designed and produced in Tel Aviv.
Nantucket / United States
Open on Nantucket since 1974, Craftmasters carries local scrimshaw, 14k gold and sterling jewelry, glass ornaments and full-grain leather goods. Its India Street shop and online store also offer lightship-cane bangles, leather bells and custom work.
Best for Jewelry, scrimshaw, leather goods, home decor
France / Online
Saint-Tropez preppy since 1976 — Daniel Crémieux's French-American collegiate casual wear blending Riviera ease with refined tailoring.
Best for French-American collegiate prep style since 1976
Crémieux is a luxury menswear brand founded in 1976 by Daniel Crémieux in Saint-Tropez, France, born from a personal vision to create the best French interpretation of American preppy style. Crémieux drew inspiration from time spent in London studying British student style, then traveled to New York to study traditional American preppy menswear before returning to France with his design mission. The brand's signature aesthetic fuses American collegiate tradition with Saint-Tropez Riviera spirit, translating into colorful preppy-inspired sweaters, dress shirts, and regimental striped ties. The company emphasizes hand-tailored suits manufactured in Italy and sophisticated beachwear pieces suited to relaxed, refined styling. Starting from its flagship boutique in Saint-Tropez, the brand expanded internationally to major cities including New York (Hudson Yards and Madison Avenue), Boston, Palm Beach, Capri, and London's Savile Row. A significant 2000 partnership with American retailer Dillard's, which operates 280 U.S. stores, broadened accessibility. The brand motto, "Il n'y a pas d'avenir sans passé" (There is no future without the past), reflects its commitment to timeless elegance and heritage craftsmanship.
Italy
Founded in 1974 in Asolo, Italy by Alessandro Dal Bello, who trained as a boot-building artisan at Switzerland's Henke ski boot factory before returning to Italy; an early mover in the shift from leather to plastic ski boots.
Best for The Panterra and Lupo ski boots and cabrio-shell construction from Venetian specialists
Dalbello was founded in 1974 in Asolo, near the Dolomites in Italy's Treviso province, by Alessandro Dal Bello. He and his wife Giovanna had spent years in Switzerland learning ski-boot construction as artisans at the Henke boot factory before returning to Italy to start their own line under the Dalbello name. The company's early years coincided with the ski industry's shift from traditional leather boots to injected plastic shells, a transition Dalbello was directly involved in developing rather than adopting late. Through the 1980s the brand built a reputation for precise fit, which helped it expand into international markets beyond Italy. Its current lineup centers on cabrio-shell construction — a two-piece shell design distinct from the more common overlap shell — used across boot lines including the Panterra, for alpine skiers seeking a stiffer, performance fit, and the Lupo, aimed at backcountry and touring skiers who need a boot that walks as well as it skis.
Paris / Online
French leather-clothing specialist making jackets, blousons and coats for men and women since 1973; runs a private Paris showroom and has staged seasonal pop-ups such as the Royal Village.
Best for Moto jackets
Daytona 73 is a French label specializing in the design and manufacture of leather clothing, active since 1973. Its collections center on leather jackets and blousons for men and women - bomber, biker and moto styles, sleeveless vests, suede jackets and leather coats - sold through its own e-commerce site and via stockists such as Cesare Nori. In Paris the brand maintains a private showroom rather than a walk-in flagship, and has used temporary retail moments to reach customers directly, including a seasonal pop-up at the Royal Village in Paris. The brand's identity leans on the '73' founding year, positioning it as a long-running specialist in French leatherwear.
Paris
French luggage since 1946 — the Chatelet trunk-look spinner and clever security zips. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for The Chatelet trunk-style spinner luggage with security zips, since 1946
London / Global
Rei Kawakubo’s beautiful chaos — the concept store where Comme, streetwear and couture collide. Left Dover Street March 2016 after landlord tripled the rent. Haymarket store 31384 sq ft on five floors, three times the old unit. 17-18 Dover Street housed the ICA from 1950.
Best for Multi-brand fashion, streetwear and limited collaborations
Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and her husband Adrian Joffe opened Dover Street Market in London in 2004, naming it for its first address and organizing it around her phrase 'beautiful chaos': a multi-floor market where the world's most conceptual fashion — all Comme des Garçons lines, Sacai, Simone Rocha, streetwear installations, emerging names — shares space in artist-built environments that are demolished and rebuilt seasonally in the ritual of tachiagari. The London store later moved to Haymarket, and the market spread to New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Los Angeles, and Paris, each edition curated as an argument rather than an inventory. DSM functions as fashion's most influential retail edit: placement here anoints young designers. Go without a shopping list — the point is the collision of things, and the exclusive collaborations produced for the store are the collectors' quarry.
Visit early in a season drop for the store-exclusive pieces, and take the floors in order — the installations are sequenced, and rushing them misses the argument.
Piazza Di Spagna & Immediate Area, Rome / Online
Curvier-fit womenswear line launched in 1985 by the Miroglio Group (founded 1947 in Alba, Piedmont by Giuseppe Miroglio). Since 2005 the only plus-size label to show at Milano Moda Donna; sells dresses, knitwear and tailoring across European stores.
Best for Italian womenswear in extended sizes and dresses
Elena Miro was launched in 1985 by the Miroglio Group, the Alba, Piedmont-based textile and fashion company founded in 1947 by Giuseppe Miroglio. The brand was created specifically to dress fuller, curvier figures at a time when plus-size womenswear had little presence in mainstream Italian fashion. Since 2005, Elena Miro has been the only plus-size brand to show on the official calendar of Milano Moda Donna, Milan's womenswear fashion week. It remains part of the wider Miroglio Group portfolio, which also includes labels such as Motivi, Oltre and Fiorella Rubino.
Perugia origin / Online
Italian sportswear house founded in Perugia in 1959 by tailor Leonardo Servadio, whose initials ('L.S.') gave the brand its name; began in ski trousers, added tennis wear in 1975, and has been owned by UK's Pentland Group since 1987.
Best for Retro tennis style.
Ellesse traces to 19 June 1959, when Leonardo Servadio, a tailor from a Perugia textile-merchant family, opened a small workshop in Umbria. His nickname 'Mantis' and love of mountain sports pushed the label toward ski trousers first. The name itself is a play on his initials, L and S, pronounced the Italian way as 'elle-esse.' By the mid-1960s Ellesse had grown into Italy's second-largest trouser manufacturer. The brand moved into tennis in 1975, developing technical apparel worn on tour, and its semi-palla roundel logo became a fixture of 1980s court and ski style. Ellesse was acquired by the British Pentland Group in 1987, which still owns it today alongside brands like Speedo and Berghaus.
Oscar Freire
Brazilian denim specialist since 1972—premium jeans, apparel, and accessories mixing leather textures and earthy tones across men's and women's collections.
Best for Brazilian denim, jeans and leather-trimmed casualwear
Ellus was founded in Brazil in 1972 and positions itself as a reference brand in national denim. The label builds its collections around contrasts of leather textures and earthy-toned materials, emphasizing timelessness and aesthetic strength. The company introduced stone-washed jeans to the Brazilian market in 1981, a landmark moment in local fashion retail. Today the brand spans comprehensive menswear and womenswear lines including jeans, t-shirts, shirts, jackets, polos, sweaters, and dresses. An accessories collection adds belts, wallets, bags, and caps. The premium line ELLUS [DLX] serves customers seeking a higher tier. The brand's appeal rests on consistent quality in tailoring and an evolving design sensibility that respects the fundamentals of good denim while accommodating contemporary style.
130/132 Great Western Building, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400023 / Mumbai / India
Opened December 1987 by Tarun and Sailaja Tahiliani as India's first multi-designer luxury store; Forbes India dates the Lion Gate / south Mumbai flagship to that month.
Best for Opened December 1987 by Tarun and Sailaja Tahiliani as India's first multi-designer luxury store.
Seattle, USA
Feathered Friends makes down sleeping bags and insulated clothing in Seattle, with a shop carrying its own products and other outdoor gear. Peter and Carol Hickner started the business in 1972, and the family continues to produce gear in the city's SoDo district. The retail selection covers backpacking and climbing, letting shoppers compare insulation alongside equipment for their trips.
Best for Seattle-made down gear and specialist outdoor equipment
Feathered Friends connects Seattle manufacturing with an outdoor shop where buyers can compare equipment for their own trips. Down sleeping bags and insulated clothing are central to its range, with bedding offering another use for the company's insulation work. Its own products sit alongside equipment from other brands in the retail store.
Peter and Carol Hickner started making gear in 1972, working from a basement with a secondhand industrial sewing machine. The family continues that work in Seattle, with production facilities in the SoDo district. This is a specific manufacturing history for Feathered Friends products, not evidence that everything stocked in the shop is made locally.
For a visitor, the practical value is being able to compare gear in person and ask how it relates to a planned activity. The store's wider selection covers backpacking and climbing, including expedition equipment. Start with the conditions of your trip and the equipment you already own, then use the shop to examine fit and construction rather than choosing on a brand name alone.
France
French skiwear house founded in 1952 in Annecy by tailors Georges Ribola and Rene Veyrat, inventors of the fitted 'fuseau' ski trouser; dressed Olympic skiers Jean-Claude Killy and the Goitschel sisters and produced one of the first competition ski suits in 1966.
Best for Ski alpine polos; French alpine skiwear
Fusalp was founded in 1952 on the shores of Lake Annecy by two tailors, Georges Ribola and Rene Veyrat, both avid skiers who set out to design a better alternative to the era's conventional ski trousers. Their answer was the 'fuseau,' a slim, body-conscious ski pant that gave the brand its name. At the 1966 world ski championships in Portillo, Chile, Ribola and Veyrat produced one of the first true competition ski suits. Fusalp built its profile through champion athletes including the Goitschel sisters and Jean-Claude Killy. In recent years the brand has been repositioned as a luxury label under the Lacoste family.
Eurotorri, parma / Italy
Galleria Settanta has dressed men and women in Parma since 1970, running a flagship 'G70 Eurotorri' store inside the Eurotorri shopping center alongside a Langhirano branch and a plus-size outlet on Via Colorno. The multibrand shop carries labels like Colmar, Lacoste and Timberland up to size 8XL, both in-store and online.
Best for Multibrand fashion, menswear & womenswear, plus size
Paris / Online
Paris ready-to-wear house Gérard Darel dates to 1971 and built a lasting accessories identity around the 24H bag, created in 2003. The soft, slouching handbag remains a signature product alongside the house’s ready-to-wear and other leather accessories, giving the body a concrete product anchor without a 'best known' claim.
Best for The 24H bag and Jackie-inspired Parisian wardrobe classics.
Gérard Darel was founded in 1971 by Gérard and Danièle Darel, both of whom grew up around family clothing shops before leaving Algiers for Paris, where they opened their first boutique in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For three decades the label built a reputation for polished, wearable Parisian ready-to-wear before its defining product arrived: the 24H bag, introduced in 2003. Named for its intended use at any hour of the day or night, the bag is assembled from roughly 30 separate pieces of leather and became the label's signature accessory, credited with a level of commercial success unusual for a French ready-to-wear house's leather-goods line. The bag has been reissued in successive seasonal colorways and sizes ever since, remaining in production more than two decades after its launch and continuing to anchor the brand's identity alongside its clothing collections. Gérard Darel has expanded into international markets, including a stated push into China, while continuing to operate as a family-founded French house built around accessible, everyday elegance rather than seasonal runway spectacle.
36 Levinsky Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel / Tel Aviv / Israel
Founded 1958 by Holocaust survivor Haim Raphael of Thessaloniki; family still sells Balkan olives, cheeses, tarama and weekend leek patties (ShukTLV; Harry’s Baked 2026).
Best for Balkan olives, cheeses, tarama and weekend leek patties.
Germany
German trouser manufactory founded 1955 by master tailor Fritz Hiltl and his wife Hedwig in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria; grew from around 20 pairs of trousers a day to a factory employing 370 people by 1980.
Best for Precisely finished German men's trousers
Hiltl was founded in 1955 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria, by master tailor Fritz Hiltl together with his wife Hedwig and, in support, his brother Erhard and six apprentices. Output began small, around 20 pairs a day, but grew after Fritz Hiltl's first collection impressed trade buyers at Cologne Men's Fashion Week. A new, more modern factory opened on Asamstrasse in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in October 1968, and by 1980 the company employed 370 people producing roughly 2,000 pairs of trousers daily. After Fritz Hiltl's death in 1994, Hedwig Hiltl led the company's push into markets beyond Europe. Nord Holding acquired the company in 2016; it was renamed HILTL Hosen-Manufaktur GmbH in 2020.
Antwerp
Antwerp’s crinkle-nylon bags — monkey keyring included since 1987. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Antwerp crinkle-nylon bags with the signature monkey keyring since 1987
Italy
Originally founded in 1986 near Parma as Wonderland srl, a sportswear manufacturer producing jackets and raincoats, the label was renamed Kired after joining the Kiton group; leather and shearling pieces were added in the 1990s and a new production plant opened in Collecchio in 2008.
Best for Reversible polos, technical; Technical outerwear, reversible
Kired's manufacturing roots go back to 1986, when a production plant on the outskirts of Parma was established under the name Wonderland srl, making sportswear: jackets, trench coats and raincoats. During the 1990s the range expanded to include leather garments and shearling pieces alongside the fabric outerwear. The company was subsequently acquired by Kiton, the Neapolitan tailoring house, and the brand was renamed Kired, operating within the Kiton group as its outerwear-focused label. In 2008 a new manufacturing plant opened in Collecchio, near Parma, designed with attention to working conditions for its employees. Kired's collections remain centered on outerwear made with Kiton-level material sourcing — cashmere, silk and fine wool — and the brand is particularly known for reversible coats and jackets, including reversible cashmere pieces, that let a single garment function as two different finishes.
Paris / Multiple
Paris concept-store pioneer founded 1980 by Armand and Martine Hadida; the Sevigne location (opened 2009, designed with artist Arne Quinze) stocks Carol Christian Poell and other avant-garde labels.
Best for Paris avant-garde fashion pioneer since 1980, stocking Poell and CCP
L'Eclaireur was founded in January 1980 by Armand and Martine Hadida, opening a roughly 23-square-yard shop on the Champs-Elysees that mixed high fashion with design, art and furniture before the term 'concept store' existed. Hadida became an early French distributor for designers including Girbaud, Prada, Helmut Lang, John Galliano, Ann Demeulemeester and Martin Margiela. In 1990 the store relocated to a larger space in Le Marais. Its rue de Sevigne location, opened in October 2009, was designed in collaboration with Belgian artist Arne Quinze and built around roughly two tons of wooden planking and more than 120 sliding video screens that conceal the clothing racks - WeAr magazine named it the world's best concept store that year.
Laivurinrinne 2, 00120 Helsinki, Finland / Helsinki / Finland
Record-and-book shop operating since 1977 specializing in reggae, salsa, afro, soul, latin, classical and jazz.
Best for Reggae, salsa, Afro, soul, Latin, classical and jazz records.
Reggio Emilia / Online
Launched in 1980 within the Max Mara Group by Achille Maramotti and named for his great-grandmother, Marina Rinaldi was one of the first fashion labels built specifically for women above standard sample sizes, applying the same tailoring, fabric and construction standards as the group's mainline collections.
Best for Elegant plus-size tailoring.
Marina Rinaldi was created in 1980 by Achille Maramotti, founder of the Max Mara Group, as a dedicated line for women wearing sizes above the standard range then served by mainstream fashion houses — at the time, essentially no established fashion company was designing specifically for this customer. The label is named after Maramotti's great-grandmother. Headquartered, like the rest of the Max Mara Group, in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Marina Rinaldi's founding premise was that larger-size dressing should not mean lower design ambition: garments were cut, constructed and finished to the same standard as the group's core Max Mara collections, using the same quality of fabric and color development rather than simplified or resized versions of existing patterns. The brand expanded steadily through the 1980s, adding the Persona diffusion line in 1985, Marina Sport in 1986, and a dedicated knitwear line in 1987, building out a fuller wardrobe rather than a single signature silhouette. Decades on, Marina Rinaldi remains part of the privately held Max Mara Group and continues to operate as a distinct label with its own collections, boutiques and e-commerce, sold via marinarinaldi.com and department-store concessions internationally, while sharing the group's Reggio Emilia design and production infrastructure.
Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv
A fashion house and atelier producing womenswear, coats, accessories, textiles, and jewelry that combine contemporary tailoring with regional embroidery and weaving references. Ruth Dayan founded Maskit in 1954 to create work for immigrant artisans; Sharon Tal and Dayan revived the house in 2014.
Best for Fashion house and atelier producing womenswear, coats, accessories, textiles
Maskit was founded in 1954 by Ruth Dayan, then wife of military commander Moshe Dayan, as Israel's first fashion house. Dayan's founding idea was practical as much as aesthetic: newly arrived immigrants carried embroidery, weaving and other decorative-arts skills with nowhere to apply them, and Maskit built a business around channeling that craft into modern ready-to-wear. In 1955 designer Finy Leitersdorf joined the house, beginning a fifteen-year design partnership that carried Maskit through its peak years. By the 1960s the label had international standing — Audrey Hepburn was among its clients — and at its height Maskit employed roughly 2,000 workers across ten locations in Israel plus a New York store, with pieces carried by Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. The house closed in 1994. It was revived in 2013 by Nir Tal, formerly of Deloitte, and designer Sharon Tal, previously of Alexander McQueen, with backing from Iscar founder Stef Wertheimer. The revived Maskit has continued expanding physical retail beyond its original Old Jaffa atelier, opening a Dizengoff Street flagship in Tel Aviv in 2026 and operating additional branches across the Tel Aviv area. The house's identity — regional embroidery and weaving techniques worked into contemporary tailoring — remains the throughline from Dayan's founding vision to its current collections.
Sardinia, Italy
Italian trouser house founded in 1974 by Giorgio Martini in Carrara, Tuscany, building on his father Vilmo's tailoring workshop; known for chinos and cargo pants influenced by South American military uniforms.
Best for Military-heritage chinos cut with Tuscan polish from an Italian trouser house.
Mason's was founded in 1974 by Giorgio Martini, whose family's tailoring roots go back to his father Vilmo Martini's respected pattern-making workshop in Marina di Carrara, a Tuscan town known for its marble quarries. A trip to South America, where Giorgio Martini encountered garments worn by Colombian liberation-army fighters, shaped the rugged, functional aesthetic of the brand's first collection. The company remains family-run, with Martini, now company president, working alongside his sons Nicola, Vilmo, and Giuseppe; its headquarters is registered in Carrara. The brand name is a nod to San Francisco's Powell-Mason cable car line rather than to any Italian place name.
Reggio Emilia / Online
Younger contemporary line of the Max Mara Fashion Group, launched in 1986 and based, like parent house Max Mara (founded 1951 by Achille Maramotti), in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Best for Young smart tailoring.
Max and Co. is a contemporary womenswear line launched in 1986 as a retail project of the Max Mara Fashion Group, aimed at a younger customer building a personal wardrobe from mixable, trend-aware pieces. The company is headquartered, like its parent group, in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Max Mara itself was founded there in 1951 by Achille Maramotti under the name Confezioni Maramotti, with an explicit goal of bringing American-style industrial ready-to-wear methods into Italian tailoring; the company took the Max Mara name after relocating to a new Reggio Emilia headquarters in 1957.
West Hollywood
Avant-garde concept boutique founded 1969 by Tommy Perse as 'Maxfield Bleu' next to the Troubadour club; an early US stockist of Comme des Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto. Now on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, carrying Rick Owens, Bottega Veneta and Alaia alongside art books and rare objects.
Best for Avant-garde fashion, art books and design objects
Maxfield opened in 1969 under the name Maxfield Bleu, founded by Tommy Perse next door to the Troubadour music club in West Hollywood, and quickly became known for dressing musicians and artists and for theatrical window displays involving coffins and hanging mannequins. In the mid-1970s the store was among the first in the US to carry European and Japanese designers such as Armani, Comme des Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto. In 1985 it moved into an all-concrete industrial building at 8825 Melrose Avenue, staging its collections in a gallery-like space anchored by giant Moai-style sculptures. Today Maxfield continues under Perse's direction as a tightly curated multi-brand boutique carrying designers including Rick Owens, Bottega Veneta, Alaia, Jacques Marie Mage and Bibi van der Velden, alongside rare books, home objects, fragrance and its own 'Maxfield Exclusives' capsule line.
Sweden
Swedish menswear label founded in Stockholm in 2004 by Jan Alsen, named for a Stockholm menswear shop that operated from 1949 to the early 1970s; blends English preppy influence with Italian tailoring craftsmanship.
Best for Premium menswear
Morris Stockholm was founded in 2004 by Jan Alsen, who named the brand after a menswear shop that had operated on Hamngatan in central Stockholm from 1949 into the early 1970s. That original Morris shop was known as a gathering place for men with an interest in British-made clothing, and the modern brand carries that reference forward, describing its aesthetic as English preppy fashion executed with Italian tailoring standards. The label's product range centers on classic menswear - blazers, shirts, trousers, knitwear - with particular emphasis on merino knitwear in autumn collections and linen for spring and summer. Morris sells through its own stores as well as through Nordic multi-brand retailers.
Vienna
Vienna's original concept store. Fashion, art, magazines and a cafe bar — a pioneer of Viennese cool since 1989.
Best for Fashion, art, and magazines with a cafe bar, pioneering Viennese cool since 1989
Paris / Multiple
Founded in 1973 by brothers Patrick and Gérard Pariente; the brand's 1983 ready-to-dye cotton suits, stamped with its truck logo, became a signature of 1980s French youth fashion.
Best for 80s Paris high-street playful femininity, the original grand méchant look
Naf Naf was founded in Paris in 1973 by brothers Patrick and Gérard Pariente. Their first shop was named Naphtaline; a second boutique, opened five years later, was called Influence, before the brand formally adopted the Naf Naf name in 1979 when the company incorporated as Naf Naf SA. The brand's breakthrough came in 1983 with a line of ready-to-dye cotton suits, stamped with the truck logo and the company's phone number, that became closely associated with 1980s French street style. Through that decade, Naf Naf's colorful, affordable ready-to-wear collections were closely tied to French youth fashion. The company expanded into accessories including eyewear and bags by 1985, entered the Japanese market with a 'By Naf Naf' collection in 1986, and launched its first perfume in partnership with L'Oréal in 1991. The brand later expanded into menswear and other categories, and though its footprint has shrunk in some markets in recent years — it ended operations in Spain after three decades there — it remains a recognizable name from the era it helped define.
14 Mohamed Abdel Wahab Street, formerly Saray El Gezira Street, Zamalek, Cairo 11211 / Cairo / Egypt
Nomad Gallery is a family-owned Cairo business established in 1985, offering Egyptian handmade gifts made with artisan families across the country, including textiles, Fayoum pottery, Bedouin crafts, silver jewellery and beaded bags.
Best for An independent edit of regional makers.
Ichikawa Daimon, Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, Japan
Onao has worked washi in Yamanashi's thousand-year-old Ichikawa Daimon papermaking district since around 1960, incorporating in 1974. Beyond shoji paper, its 2008 SIWA line with designer Naoto Fukasawa turns tear-resistant Naoron paper into bags and everyday objects.
Best for SIWA crumple-textured paper goods and traditional shoji paper
Onao works from Ichikawa Daimon, a district of Yamanashi Prefecture with roughly a thousand years of washi papermaking history, tracing its own operation back to around 1960, when the district's hand-papermaking shifted toward mechanized production, before incorporating as its present company in 1974. Alongside its traditional line — shoji paper for sliding doors, celebration papers for seasonal use, writing papers and stationery — the company keeps a research arm developing new paper materials, including Naoron, a tear-resistant, water-resistant washi that stays soft and pliable and gains texture when crumpled. In 2008, Onao paired that material development with design, launching SIWA (紙和) with industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa: bags, wallets and everyday objects built from Naoron rather than conventional paper stock, aimed at broadening what a "paper product" can be beyond stationery and interior fittings. The company also collaborates on regional paper projects with makers in Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan and the Philippines, extending its materials research outward rather than keeping washi development confined to Japan. On site, Onao keeps an all-paper tea room, Jokuan, at its Yamanashi headquarters — a working demonstration, inside the company's own building, of how far its core material can be pushed.
Palermo
Buenos Aires avant-garde fashion designer, born 1971 in Navarro, self-taught and UBA-trained; his flagship store 'Tienda Ramirez' is at Ayacucho 1984 in Recoleta (not Palermo), selling ready-to-wear, denim and made-to-measure ('a medida') dresses.
Best for Bespoke tailor custom suits.
Pablo Ramirez is an Argentine fashion designer, born in September 1971 in the town of Navarro, Buenos Aires Province. Self-taught before formally studying textile design and clothing at the University of Buenos Aires, he built a career known for narrative, theatrical 'diseno de autor' collections shown on runways from Buenos Aires to New York, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid and Medellin. Beyond ready-to-wear, he has designed theatrical costumes, including for a 2017 production of Tosca at Uruguay's Teatro Solis. His flagship store, 'Tienda Ramirez,' operates at Ayacucho 1984 in Buenos Aires's Recoleta neighborhood, selling women's and men's ready-to-wear, a denim line, accessories and made-to-measure dresses.
1575 SW 1st Street, Miami, FL 33135 / Miami / United States
José Orlando Padrón opened Padrón Cigars in Miami on 8 September 1964; Cigar Aficionado records the Little Havana house and the current headquarters.
Best for Miami cigars from a Little Havana house founded in 1964.
Fidenza / Emilia / Online
Fidenza-based Italian fashion house founded in 1986 by Pietro Negra and Cristina Rubini, later joined by daughters Cecilia and Caterina. Known for the Love Bag; built a 2010 'Green Factory' headquarters designed by architect Guido Canali.
Best for Love Bags and blazers.
Pinko was founded in 1986 in Fidenza, in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region, by husband-and-wife team Pietro Negra and Cristina Rubini. The label built its early identity around 'instant fashion' — releasing new flash collections on a near-weekly cycle to respond quickly to changing demand, rather than working strictly to the traditional twice-yearly runway calendar. That approach helped the brand expand quickly beyond its original core customer of young women, and Pinko eventually grew to more than 800 points of sale worldwide, opening its first Milan flagship store in 2006. The Negra-Rubini family was later joined in the business by their daughters, Cecilia and Caterina. In 2010 the company completed a new 15,000-square-metre headquarters in Fidenza, designed by architect Guido Canali and built around a 'Green Factory' sustainable-design concept. Pinko's most recognized product is the Love Bag, a top-handle leather bag whose particular popularity in the Chinese market has been widely credited with driving the brand's international growth over the past decade. The company remains privately controlled by the founding family and continues to be headquartered in Fidenza, where design and part of production are based.
ul. Śniadeckich 18, Warsaw, Poland / Warsaw / Poland
The Warsaw glove workshop has existed since 1946, founded by Jan Giedroyć-Juraha; daughter Anna has run the Śniadeckich 18 shop since 1 September 2015.
Best for Gloves from a Warsaw workshop operating since 1946.
6851 Saint-Dominique Street, Montreal, QC H2S 3B3 / Montreal / Canada
Vendittelli-Faita family has run the Little Italy shop since 1956; Montreal Gazette (2026-08-08) marked the 70th anniversary and named Elena Vendittelli Faita and Rudy Vendittelli as current co-owners.
Best for A Vendittelli-Faita family shop in Little Italy since 1956.
19200 SW 344th Street, Homestead, FL 33034 / Miami / United States
Family fruit stand begun in 1959 when farmer Robert Moehling was set at a roadside cucumber table under a Robert Is Here sign; VISIT FLORIDA still calls it Florida's most famous produce stand.
Best for Produce from a family roadside fruit stand begun in 1959.
Toronto / Canada / Online
Canadian lifestyle brand since 1973 — the salt and pepper sweatsuit, leather bags, and Canada's unofficial uniform. Official outfitter of the Canadian team at Nagano 1998; the red 'poorboy' cap sold more than 500,000 units.
Best for Canada's unofficial uniform
Denmark
Danish menswear label launched in 1997 within the Bestseller group (founded 1975), offering Nordic-minimalist tailoring, workwear-influenced staples and footwear at accessible prices.
Best for Accessible Scandi fashion
Selected Homme is a menswear brand launched in 1997 within Bestseller, the Danish family-owned fashion group founded in 1975 by Merete Bech Povlsen and Troels Holch Povlsen. The label positions itself as Nordic in outlook, built around a minimalist, quality-driven wardrobe that spans tailoring, workwear-influenced staples, knitwear and footwear at accessible price points rather than luxury positioning. It is one of several menswear and womenswear labels under the Bestseller umbrella, sold through its own stores and stockists including ASOS, John Lewis and Urban Outfitters across Europe, and has also pushed into the US market as part of Bestseller's broader international retail expansion.
Arezzo / Online
Multibrand luxury boutique opened in Arezzo in 1978 by Beppe Angiolini; since 2018 it occupies the restored Renaissance/Baroque Palazzo Lambardi on Corso Italia, selling international fashion, accessories, art and design.
Best for Tuscan-curated designer fashion.
Sugar is a multibrand luxury concept store in Arezzo founded in 1978, when Beppe Angiolini opened a small boutique that grew through the 1980s and 1990s into an internationally recognized retail destination. Angiolini built the store's reputation by stocking labels before they were widely available in Italy, and over time Sugar evolved from a single boutique into a broader concept space combining clothing, accessories, art and design. Since 2018 the store has occupied Palazzo Lambardi, a restored Renaissance and Baroque building at Corso Italia 60, featuring seventeenth-century frescoes and original wooden ceilings.
Como / Online
Lake Como's family-run luxury boutiques since 1953, now shipping the lake's taste worldwide.
Best for Lakeside luxury multi-brand.
Morro Bay Ca / United States
Opened in 1974 on a former boat yard at 680 Embarcadero, The Garden Gallery is a Morro Bay landmark where garden plants, succulents and home goods share space with work by local craftsmen. Its warren of rooms and seasonal displays make it as much a place to wander as a shop to buy from.
Best for Home & garden, succulents, local art, home goods
Peggy’s Cove / Canada
Running at Peggy's Cove since 1967, The Sou'Wester pairs a Maritime seafood restaurant with a two-level gift shop holding one of the region's largest giftware selections. Souvenirs, clothing, ornaments and local crafts are sold in store and through the online shop.
Best for Gift shop, souvenirs, Maritime crafts, apparel
1075 Budapest, Károly körút 1., Hungary / Budapest / Hungary
Communist-era sport-shoe brand from the Martfű factory (new logo 1971); Clash Kft bought the trademark in 2003 and states shoes are produced only in Hungary, sold in the brands own specialty stores.
Best for Communist-era sport-shoe brand from the Martfű factory.
Bergamo / Online
Bergamo luxury multibrand founded by Tiziana Fausti, who opened her first 16-square-metre shoe and bag shop in 1979. Now a 1,200-square-metre store with a Dior shop-in-shop plus Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Gucci and Alaia concessions, and a rooftop restaurant added in 2019.
Best for Curated luxury wardrobes.
Tiziana Fausti's business began inside her parents' leather goods shop on Bergamo's Via Sant'Alessandro, which operated from 1946 to 1981. In 1979, while still working alongside her parents, she opened her own 16-square-metre shop selling designer shoes and bags, with Prada's fabric bags among her first successes. A larger womenswear boutique in Piazza Dante, designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi, followed in 1986. Over four decades the business grew into a 1,200-square-metre luxury store spanning 22 shop windows in central Bergamo, now carrying menswear, kidswear and accessories alongside a 100-square-metre Dior shop-in-shop and concessions for Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Gucci, Alaia, Chloe and Celine. To mark 40 years in business in 2019, Fausti added Terrazza Fausti, a restaurant and lounge bar with a 600-square-metre terrace overlooking the historic center.
BHV Marais / Rue de Rivoli
Philadelphia retailer founded 1970 by Richard Hayne and Scott Belair as the 400-square-foot Free People Store near Penn's campus; this branch trades inside BHV Marais on Rue de Rivoli.
Best for Vinyl, Y2K revival fashion, and dorm-room everything
Urban Outfitters traces to 1970, when Richard Hayne — an anthropology graduate freshly back from two years as a VISTA volunteer in Alaska — and Scott Belair, a Wharton student needing a project for an entrepreneurship class, pooled $5,000 to open a 400-square-foot shop called the Free People Store near the University of Pennsylvania campus. The original store sold inexpensive secondhand clothing, Indian fabrics, scented candles and ethnic jewelry from a space furnished with packing crates. It was renamed Urban Outfitters and formally incorporated in 1976, with Hayne serving as chairman and, since 2012, CEO.
This particular listing occupies space inside BHV Marais, the historic Paris department store at 52 rue de Rivoli — itself dating to 1856 — placing a youth-culture American retailer inside a 19th-century French grand magasin rather than a standalone storefront, which is the specific, checkable fact distinguishing this location from any other Urban Outfitters branch.
California, USA
Founded in 1970 by San Jose State students Gary Schaezlein and Jeff Jones, Western Mountaineering has hand-sewn down sleeping bags and apparel in San Jose, California ever since, sourcing goose down to avoid live-plucking and keeping all production in the USA.
Best for Finest down bags, mountaineering
Western Mountaineering was founded in the summer of 1970 by two San Jose State students, Gary Schaezlein and Jeff Jones, who were frustrated that the lightweight down sleeping bags used by European alpinists weren't available from American makers — domestic gear at the time tended to be heavier and wool-based. With no formal training, the pair began building bags themselves, starting production in a two-story building on 1st Street in San Jose, with manufacturing downstairs and retail upstairs. Since 1993 the company has operated from a renovated former Coca-Cola bottling plant just south of the freeway in San Jose, where seamstresses still hand-finish each bag — a deliberately small-scale, unautomated process the company has maintained rather than scaling into mass production. Western Mountaineering states that it sources goose down through a direct contact in Eastern Europe supplied by a mother-goose farm, specifically to avoid down obtained through live-plucking or force-feeding. Unlike most contemporary outdoor-gear brands, which have moved manufacturing to Asia, Western Mountaineering continues to make its sleeping bags and down apparel entirely in the United States, a point the company and outdoor press both cite as increasingly rare in the category.
PRINTEMPS
Born 1967 in Huron, California; launched his eponymous menswear label in 2015, later served as Calvin Klein's SVP of Design, and won CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year in 2023 and 2024.
Best for Oversized tailoring and dignity-first Chicano American design
Willy Chavarria was born in 1967 in Huron, California, growing up in a working-class household with a Mexican-American father and an Irish-American mother — a background that recurs directly in his design references to Chicano culture and American labor iconography. He studied at the Academy of Art University before working in design roles at major American labels, including a stint as Senior Vice President of Design at Calvin Klein through 2024.
He launched his own eponymous label in 2015, building a reputation for oversized tailoring and politically direct runway presentations that address immigration, masculinity and Latino identity in the U.S. His work has been recognized with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2022, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award in 2021, and back-to-back CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year awards in 2023 and 2024.
The brand has also run collaborations with larger companies, including Adidas, extending its reach beyond runway-only fashion into more accessible product lines while keeping its underlying design language intact.
Musrara, Jerusalem
An onsite shop selling jewelry, textiles, Judaica, paper goods, toys, wall hangings, bags, and home objects handmade in adjacent artisan workshops. Yad LaKashish provides paid creative work and social support to older Jerusalem residents. Established 1962.
Best for Handmade jewelry, textiles, Judaica and paper goods from older artisans
9274 SW 40th Street, Miami, FL 33165 / Miami / United States
Richard Ulloa founded Yesterday & Today on 20 June 1981; Miami New Times gives the Bird Road shop address as 9274 SW 40th St.
Best for A Bird Road shop founded in 1981.
Paris / Online
Paris ready-to-wear label founded in 1972 by Gerard and Nicole Letourneau for active women. Arie Benayoun took over design direction in 2006. Runs about 42 own stores in France and Belgium plus over 300 multi-brand stockists in 35-plus countries.
Best for Clean-tailored Parisian womenswear with understated polish
Zapa was founded in Paris in 1972 by Gerard Letourneau and his wife Nicole, built around ready-to-wear for what the brand described as active women. In 2006, designer and executive Arie Benayoun took over the brand and its artistic direction, opening a new era for the house with more relaxed, contemporary collections. Zapa today operates around 42 of its own stores concentrated in France and Belgium, is carried in more than 300 additional multi-brand boutiques within France, and is distributed in over 35 countries.
1972 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC / Vancouver / Canada
Grant McDonagh opened Zulu in 1981, after Quintessence closed, and it is still at 1972 West 4th Avenue. CBC Radio 3's Searchlight named it a finalist for Canada's best record store.
Best for A West 4th Avenue shop opened by Grant McDonagh in 1981.
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