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The Italian shirt is a Milan-Naples argument conducted in cloth, with both sides hosted here. Milan's Caliban cuts refined shirts from Albini and Thomas Mason fabrics, with hand-sewn buttonholes as the quiet signature. Naples answers through the white arts: Camiceria Piccirillo brings generational handwork to the dress-shirt tradition. Panico keeps the Neapolitan bespoke line open across polos and suits as well. Collar attachment and fabric weight decide a shirt long before the label does, so the collar deserves the first touch.
Via argiro 21 and via piccinni 49, bari / Italy
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
Biella, Italy
Direct-to-consumer knitwear from Biella. Transparent pricing, zero inventory waste. Superb merino polo shirts and fine-gauge knits.
Best for Knitted polos, merino knitwear, sustainability; Sustainable merino polos
Italy
Bologna menswear label founded in 1983 by designer Daniele Alessandrini, built around knitwear, outerwear and shirts before adopting a slower seasonal model for more developed collections; production and worldwide distribution are now licensed to businessman Donato Ambrosio's group.
Best for Rock-influenced menswear
Daniele Alessandrini founded his eponymous menswear label in Bologna in 1983, building the range around knitwear, outerwear and shirts as its core commercial strengths. The brand originally ran on a standard ready-to-wear seasonal cycle before shifting to a slower model that gave the design team more time to develop larger, more curated collections — reportedly around 450 to 500 pieces per season — positioning the label in the upper-middle segment of Italian menswear rather than as haute couture or mass-market fast fashion. Over time the range expanded into sub-lines including D.A. Daniele Alessandrini, Grey Daniele Alessandrini, Homme Daniele Alessandrini and Denim Daniele Alessandrini, alongside accessories. More recently, production and worldwide distribution rights were licensed to a group headed by businessman Donato Ambrosio, a move reported by trade press as opening new international expansion for the brand beyond its original Bologna base.
Via Ugo Bassi
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.
Best for Bespoke tailoring and menswear
Bologna / Online
Bologna's haute shirtmaker since 1962 — hand-finished luxury shirts in Egyptian cotton and Como silk, the connoisseur's quiet flex.
Best for Italy's most luxurious RTW dress shirts.
Bologna / Online
LBM 1911 makes softly tailored jackets, suits and shirts with a relaxed Bolognese character. Made-to-measure options include specialised collars, while ready-to-wear offers an introduction to the house fit.
Best for Bolognese soft tailoring
Bologna / via stockists
Bologna's small-atelier luxury shirtmaker (1959) — 13 stitches per centimeter, and the famous 'Iseo' one-piece collar shirt; own e-shop absent, so linked via its Brussels stockist Maison Degand.
Best for The Iseo one-piece collar in Riva cloth.
Florence / Online
Florence-based designer who opened his marble-lined shop in 2020. Bold '70s-style colourways and playful fabric combinations. Custom creations with one-piece collar on request.
Best for Bold Florentine custom shirts
Via Della Vigna Nuova, Florence / Online
The American preppy empire — Ralph’s pony from Oxford shirts to Purple Label, selling the dream of East Coast ease since 1967.
Best for Oxford shirts and polo classics.
Florence / Online
Florentine bespoke shirtmaker beloved for value — visits London and New York; one-piece collar cut on request.
Best for Bespoke Florentine shirts without the markup.
Italy / Online
MIDA undici, founded 1952 by Danilo Michelacci in Calenzano near Florence, still operates from its original building at Via del Castello 11 -- the address the brand is named for.
Best for Garment-dyed Italian T-shirts in cotton and merino wool
MIDA undici was founded in 1952 by Danilo Michelacci in Calenzano, near Florence, and still operates from the same historic building where it began, at Via del Castello 11 -- the brand's name is a direct reference to that address ("undici" is Italian for eleven). The label built its reputation on durability, precision and Italian garment craftsmanship. Danilo's son, Francesco Michelacci, took over a second generation and specialized the house further into small-batch garment dyeing and subtle fabric finishing, developing the softened, worn-in aesthetic that now defines the brand. Current production centers on t-shirts in natural fibers -- cotton and merino wool -- across a range of finishes and fits, exhibited at Pitti Uomo alongside the wider field of Italian menswear labels.
Forte dei Marmi / Italy
Pink Memories on via Stagi in Forte dei Marmi sells dresses and knitwear, as well as jackets and shirts.
Best for Dresses, jackets, knitwear and shirts
Lecce / Online
Officine81 has sold elegant menswear from Lecce since 2002, when the brand took its name from the street number of its first boutique, and it launched a full e-commerce shop in 2020. The site now carries jackets, shirts, knitwear and denim across seasonal collections, with dozens of customer reviews confirming order fulfillment out of its Lecce base.
Best for Menswear, casualwear, streetwear
Milan, Italy
Milanese accessories and knitwear house founded 1892 by Giuseppe Sartori as a necktie shop near Via Montenapoleone; the Altea trademark was formalized in 1946, known for brushed-wool knitwear made in Umbria and Marche.
Best for Printed shirts, knit polos, scarves; Printed polos, sophisticated
Altea began in 1892 as a necktie shop in Milan, opened by Giuseppe Sartori near what is now Via Montenapoleone. The Altea trademark itself was formally established in 1946. In the 1970s a fourth generation, brothers Michele and Luca Sartori, expanded the line into scarves and other accessories; by the 1990s Altea had grown into a full men's and women's 'total look' brand. It is best known today for colorful brushed-wool knitwear, alongside shirting, soft tailoring and accessories, with most pieces made in Umbria and Marche, Italy's traditional knitwear-producing regions.
Milan, Italy
Menswear label founded in 2015 by brothers Joris and Philip, launched with Italian-made driving shoes before expanding into knitwear and polo shirts produced in family-run ateliers across Italy, including a factory near Como.
Best for Nautical polo, luxury
Aurelien was founded in 2015 by two brothers, Joris and Philip, around a stated belief in understated, timeless menswear rather than seasonal trends - press coverage places the brand alongside Italian houses such as Brunello Cucinelli, Loro Piana and Tod's in category, though it is not affiliated with them. The label began with driving shoes and has since expanded into knitwear, polo shirts and related casual-luxury pieces. Aurelien doesn't manufacture in a single factory; its own materials describe garments developed in specialist, family-run ateliers spread across Italy and elsewhere in Europe, with its polo shirts specifically produced at a factory near Como. Coverage of the brand focuses on this 'quiet luxury' positioning and small-atelier production model. The brand sells primarily through its own site.
Italy
Caliban makes refined shirts with careful construction, modern proportions and a broad fabric selection. The Milan shop is relevant for comparing collars, fits and cloth rather than seeking overt branding.
Best for Refined Milanese shirts — Albini and Thomas Mason fabrics, hand-sewn buttonholes, modern sensibility.
Milan / Online
Camicissima is Italy's shirt chain (Fenicottero Group) — accessible Milan-designed dress shirts on every corso.
Best for Honest-priced Italian dress shirts.
Milan, Italy
Doriani specialises in fine-gauge knitwear, cashmere and refined polo shirts from Milan. Fibre, ply and knitting density provide the meaningful differences across pieces that otherwise appear deliberately understated.
Best for Cashmere, polo shirts, knitwear; Cashmere polos, Milan
Italy / Online
Italian shirt e-tailer carrying historic houses — including Truzzi of Milan (1890), celebrities' shirtmaker of the belle époque.
Best for Truzzi and Italian shirt brands, one cart.
Milan, Italy
Milan streetwear label founded 2012 by DJ-turned-designer Marcelo Burlon with Davide De Giglio and Claudio Antonioli, built on wing-print t-shirts drawing on Patagonian motifs; opened its first Milan flagship on Via Manzoni in 2023.
Best for Graphic streetwear, dark
Marcelo Burlon, born in Argentina, moved to Italy at 14 and worked as a DJ, PR and stylist before entering fashion, running the Milan club night 'Pink is Punk' and DJing or organizing parties for houses including Dior, Chanel and Prada. In 2012 he founded County of Milan together with Davide De Giglio and Claudio Antonioli, launching with a t-shirt line built around a stylized bird-wingspan print and tribal Patagonian motifs -- snakes, wolves, birds -- reworked in a modern streetwear register. The label's blend of club culture and high-fashion aesthetics is credited with helping pioneer the broader trend of luxury houses collaborating with streetwear. It opened its first Milan flagship store on Via Manzoni, at the corner of Via Bigli in the city's Quadrilatero della moda fashion district, in 2023. On July 4, 2026, Burlon announced he was stepping down as creative director after a decade at the brand he founded, with the label's in-house design team taking over -- a change that came amid financial instability at parent group New Guards Group.
Milan, Italy
Nicky is an Italian shirt manufacturer known for producing well-constructed shirts, including private-label work for luxury brands.
Best for Shirting made for luxury brands under client labels
Milan, Italy
A historic Milanese shirtmaker that has been producing exceptional shirts since the 1930s.
Best for Milanese since the 1930s — impeccable collar attachment, favorite of businessmen and politicians.
Naples / Online
Neapolitan shirtmaker creating hand-sewn, made-to-measure shirts at its appointment-led Viale Antonio Gramsci atelier and through online consultation.
Best for Fully hand-sewn Neapolitan shirts.
Camiceria Matuozzo works from Viale Antonio Gramsci 26, in Chiaia, and makes one thing. Shirts, for men, cut and finished by hand to the individual measurement, ordered at the atelier or through remote consultation, with periodic trunk shows away from Naples. The house dates its work to 1970 and still trades under the family name as a partnership. Naples supports an unusual concentration of shirtmakers, and what separates one from another is not design but the proportion of the garment worked by hand rather than by machine — collar, shoulder, armhole, side seams, buttonholes — a distinction invisible in a photograph and legible mainly to people already inside the trade. A visitor would not find this without being told. Viale Gramsci is a residential avenue set back from the shopping streets, the atelier runs on appointments rather than passing footfall, and the product gives nothing away from the pavement, a hand-sewn shirt being, at a glance, a shirt. The house has no shopfront logic to catch anyone. It works from a client list and from the small international audience that follows Neapolitan shirtmaking closely enough to know which door to knock on.
Naples / Online
Neapolitan shirting house since 1964 — hand-passed shoulders and the ease of Neapolitan dress shirts.
Best for Dress shirts with Neapolitan handwork.
Italy
A Naples tie workshop opened in the 1920s by Eugenio Calabrese, who owned some 300 ties and became a style reference for friends; closed during WWII, revived after by son Francesco, and now led by fourth-generation Annalisa Calabrese.
Best for Tie heritage polos; Shirts, ties, Neapolitan style
Calabrese traces its origins to the 1920s, when Eugenio Calabrese, a Neapolitan with a personal wardrobe of more than three hundred ties, turned his passion for dressing well into a workshop producing handmade ties in the heart of Naples. He became a style reference for relatives, friends and acquaintances who sought his advice. The workshop closed during the Second World War, and after the war his son, Francesco Calabrese, revived the business. By the 1960s, ties bearing the F. Calabrese label had built a following across Europe and overseas, making the firm one of the longest-running tie manufacturers still operating in Europe. The business passed to the next generation under Gaetano Calabrese, and in 1991 to his daughter Annalisa Calabrese, who today runs the company as its fourth generation. In 2024, marking a century since Eugenio's original workshop, Calabrese 1924 presented a centenary capsule collection at Pitti Uomo 106 in Florence. The company continues to make its ties and sartorial accessories in Naples and sells through boutiques internationally.
Naples, Campania
Maurizio Piccirillo makes hand-finished shirts using techniques he describes as part of the Naples tailoring tradition. His account begins with fabric selection and follows the detailed handwork used to construct a shirt. He grew up in a family of tailors in the historic centre of Naples.
Best for Hand-finished shirts in the Naples tailoring tradition
Camiceria Maurizio Piccirillo is run by Maurizio Piccirillo, who grew up in Naples' historic center in a family of tailors and entered the trade at a young age, eventually taking responsibility for factory production within the local shirtmaking sector before establishing his own house under his name. His wife, Ilaria, a skilled embroiderer, has worked alongside him in the company's production for more than twenty years, handling the decorative hand-embroidery — monograms, buttonholes and finishing details — associated with Neapolitan shirtmaking. The workshop follows the construction conventions of the city's tailoring tradition: shirts are built from selected fabrics and sewn largely by hand, with attention to the shoulder seam, collar construction and fit associated with Naples' shirtmaking houses, a category that also includes better-known names such as Salvatore Piccolo and Camiceria Piccolo, cited alongside Piccirillo as part of the same local craft lineage.
Via Chiaia, Naples / Online
Chiaia shirtmaking institution — Neapolitan collars cut for three generations; one-piece collar available on bespoke commission.
Best for Made-to-measure Chiaia shirts.
Naples, Italy
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.
Somma Vesuviana / Naples / Online
Fiorenzo Auricchio's workshop on Vesuvius' slope — 25 hand operations per shirt, the summit of Neapolitan shirtmaking; any collar, including one-piece, cut bespoke.
Best for The most hand-sewn shirt in Naples.
Naples / Online
Errico Formicola’s shirtmaking is visible in details such as soft collars, hand-finished elements and made-to-measure options. The wider range extends that tailoring approach into jackets, knitwear, trousers and accessories.
Best for Neapolitan shirts direct from the source.
Naples / Online
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.
Best for The dedicated one-piece collar line.
Naples, Italy
Avino Laboratorio Napoletano, a Naples shirtmaking atelier founded in 2001 by Francesco Avino - trained under Cesare Attolini - known for entirely handmade shirts finished with traditional 8-point stitching.
Best for Shirts, Artisan
Avino Laboratorio Napoletano is a Neapolitan shirtmaking house founded in 2001 by Francesco Avino, who began his career working with Cesare Attolini, one of the founding names of modern Neapolitan tailoring, before establishing his own atelier. The brand is built around fully handmade construction and finishing, particularly associated with the traditional Neapolitan '8-point' hand-stitched shirt collar and cuff technique. Avino Laboratorio Napoletano shirts are sold through the brand's own e-commerce site and stocked by international menswear retailers, including L.C. VIA. and the Paris multi-brand shop L'officine Paris.
Via Toledo, Naples / Online
Luca Avitabile makes shirts by hand in an atelier inside Palazzo Berio on Via Toledo in Naples, opposite the Galleria Umberto. Bespoke work starts with a muslin pattern and a fitting, with fabrics from Carlo Riva and Alumo. His Friday polo, cut long with shirt tails to sit under tailoring, joined the range in 2020. Ready-to-wear and made-to-order pieces are sold online, and trunk shows take the atelier abroad.
Best for The definitive one-piece collar polo.
Luca Avitabile cuts shirts in an atelier on the first floor of Palazzo Berio on Via Toledo in Naples, opposite the Galleria Umberto. Clients climb a stone stairwell and ring the bell before entering a terrazzo-floored fitting room. Monocle described the process in its February 2024 issue. After coffee and conversation Avitabile cuts a pattern in plain muslin and follows it with a fitting, which he regards as the delicate part of the process. Fabric choices run from striped Carlo Riva twill to Alumo Swiss cotton and Japanese denim, with buttons in Australian or Tahitian mother-of-pearl. The Friday polo, sewn from lightweight piqué and cut long with shirt tails so it can be tucked under tailoring, entered the range in 2020 as ready-to-wear and is now ordered custom as often as not. Clients who come for a classic shirt usually add a made-to-measure overshirt or polo, he told the magazine. A made-to-order overshirt service lets customers pick fabric and details. Ready-to-wear shirts and knitwear are sold online, and trunk shows and virtual meetings extend the atelier beyond Naples. Enquiries in Japanese are welcome, and appointments at the atelier are booked by email.
Naples / Online
Neapolitan shirtmaker of the hand-sewn buttonhole — shirts with the soft collar roll the world copies.
Best for Hand-finished dress shirts and sartorial wardrobe.
Historic & Traditional Shops, Naples / Online
Martino and Federico Cilento established the Neapolitan house in 1780; it now trades from Palazzo Ludolf on the Riviera di Chiaia.
Best for 247-year-old Neapolitan ties and shirts.
Casalnuovo di Napoli, Italy
Masel focuses on Casalnuovo shirtmaking, Neapolitan luxury shirting from the historic white-arts district.
Best for Dress shirts, luxury
Naples, Italy
Antonio Panico’s bespoke sartoria — Rubinacci’s master cutter for twenty years before opening his own ateliers (Naples 1991, Via Condotti Rome 1996); jackets so comfortable you never want to take them off.
Best for Bespoke polos, handmade; Bespoke shirts, Neapolitan; Bespoke Suits, Neapolitan
Vomero, Naples
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.
Best for Custom shirts and suits
Naples, Italy
Trained by his mother Maria Cavagnoli, who made bespoke shirts from their home in Naples' Piazza Mercato district, Salvatore Piccolo worked as a shirt-factory warehouseman from age fifteen before opening a made-to-measure shirt shop with her the following year, later adding jackets, ties and foulards.
Best for Shirts, Accessories
Salvatore Piccolo learned shirtmaking from his mother, Maria Cavagnoli, who had begun working in a family shirtmaking workshop at age nine and later made bespoke shirts from their home in Naples' Piazza Mercato district. Salvatore started work at fifteen as a warehouseman for a shirt factory, absorbing the trade from the production side before, at sixteen, opening a small made-to-measure shirt shop together with his mother. Working client by client, he learned the cutting and construction techniques that define Neapolitan shirtmaking — a soft, unlined, hand-finished collar and a closer body than the classic English cut — and built a bespoke clientele that grew to several hundred customers worldwide. As demand increased, the original small shop expanded into a larger operation, and the label extended beyond bespoke shirts into ready-made shirts, jackets, ties and foulards, blending English, American and Italian tailoring references with techniques rooted in Neapolitan artisan shirtmaking.
Naples / Online
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.
Best for Linen apparel, shirts, made in Italy
Naples
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.
Best for Made-to-measure shirts
Naples, Italy
Sartoria Formosa has cut bespoke clothes in Naples since 1965, when Mario Formosa founded the house now run by Gennaro Formosa. The atelier at Vico Cavallerizza a Chiaia 37 makes suits, overcoats, shirts and trousers to measure by appointment. Its signatures are the hand-sewn buttonhole and the soft Neapolitan sleeve. A Luxury Casual line adds denim shirts and cashmere knitwear, jeans or cloth trousers.
Best for Bespoke collar roll polos; Bespoke shirts, Neapolitan tailoring; Bespoke Suits
Sartoria Formosa marked sixty years of tailoring in Napoli in 2025. The house describes that span as a story made of hands and thread and measure. Mario Formosa founded it in 1965, and his son Gennaro Formosa carries it today. He receives clients personally at the atelier in Vico Cavallerizza a Chiaia. The house sets out its craft in a handful of details. The buttonhole is sewn by hand to a millimetre. The sleeve is set soft and natural so that the shoulder moves freely, and the tailors treat that as a matter of comfort as much as tradition. Lapels come in many cuts rather than one, chosen for proportion and character. The trousers are built by hand to clean lines. The stated aim is a suit that follows the body rather than reshaping it. Appointments are booked for a bespoke suit, a tailored overcoat or a made-to-measure shirt. Each visit begins with a consultation. Alongside the bespoke work the house runs a Luxury Casual line of denim shirts and cashmere knitwear, jeans or cloth trousers. These are cut with the same precision for everyday wear. The anniversary programme, in the words of the house, looks to a future of elegance rather than only to the past, and the family treats the sixtieth year as a starting point for the next generation of the atelier.
Naples / Online
Neapolitan tailoring atelier — soft shoulders and bespoke shirt program. One-piece collar available on bespoke commission.
Best for Neapolitan bespoke tradition
Naples, Italy
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.
Parma, Italy
Family-run Parma label reviving mid-century Italian elegance. Renowned for sartorial polo shirts with subtle embroidery, perfect one-piece collar shirts, and soft unstructured tailoring.
Best for Polo shirts, one-piece collar shirts, tailoring; Embroidered Parma polos; Polo Shirts, Sportswear
Rome / Via Condotti / Online
Opened in 1946 at 61A Via Condotti by Guglielmo Battistoni, a former Academy of Fine Arts student turned shirtmaker, this Rome atelier became an artists' gathering place from the 1950s — works by Picasso, Modigliani, Guttuso and Cocteau still hang on its walls — and dressed Marlon Brando and Andy Warhol.
Best for Roman dress shirts and tailoring.
Battistoni was founded in 1946 by Guglielmo Battistoni at 61A Via Condotti in Rome, in a courtyard just off the street. Battistoni had studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and came to shirtmaking, by his own account, out of both necessity and vocation rather than family trade. He became known for modernizing the men's shirt collar, cutting the points slightly longer and wider than the classical standard of the time. From the 1950s the atelier's courtyard location became a gathering point for artists and writers passing through Rome, and works by Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Renato Guttuso, Roberto Matta and Jean Cocteau still hang on its walls today, left by clients and friends of the house. The client list that built the brand's reputation for discreet luxury included Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Gianni Agnelli, the Duke of Windsor, Charlie Chaplin, Marc Chagall, John Cassavetes and Andy Warhol. Guglielmo's son, Gianni Battistoni, later led the house; Gianni Battistoni died in 2024, marking a generational close covered in the Italian fashion trade press.
Via Frattina, Rome / Online
Comptoir des Cotonniers makes understated women’s wardrobe staples, including trench coats, knitwear, shirts and easy separates. The Rome door requires confirmation because the current brand has reduced parts of its store network.
Best for Parisian basics.
Via Borgognona, Rome / Online
Milan fashion house founded 1978 by architect-trained designer Gianfranco Ferré (1944-2007), nicknamed 'the architect of fashion' for structured tailoring and sculptural white shirts; Ferré also served as creative director of Christian Dior from 1989 to 1996.
Best for Architectural white shirts.
Gianfranco Ferré trained as an architect at the Politecnico di Milano before entering fashion, first designing accessories in 1970 and raincoats from 1972 to 1974. He launched his own women's collection and founded Gianfranco Ferré S.p.A. in 1978, adding a menswear line in 1982. His architecture background earned him the nickname 'the architect of fashion,' reflected in structured, geometric tailoring; sophisticated white shirts became a recurring signature across his collections. From 1989 to 1996 he served as creative director of Christian Dior in Paris, where he created the Lady Dior handbag in 1994. Ferré died in Milan in 2007 following a brain hemorrhage; designers including Giorgio Armani, Valentino Garavani and Donatella Versace attended his funeral in his hometown of Legnano. The brand continues today as a multi-line fashion house (Ferré, GF, GF Ferré) with an official e-commerce site and store locator.
Italy
This Via Roma storefront sells ceramic sea-turtle bracelets, hand-painted fish figurines and natural sea sponges pulled from the island's own sponge-diving tradition, alongside Lampedusa-branded t-shirts and nautical accessories. It runs a street counter and an online shop side by side, both stocked from the same local-craft inventory.
Best for Ceramic turtle bracelets, natural sea sponges and marine souvenirs
Historic & Traditional, Rome / Online
Rome shirting-and-hosiery shop opened on Via del Corso in December 1870 by Viennese founders; passed to the Bloch family in the early 1900s and now run by fourth-generation owner Andrew Bloch Fiorelli, selling nightwear, shirts and knitwear.
Best for Old-Rome shirts and hosiery.
Schostal opened on Rome's Via del Corso in December 1870, founded by Viennese proprietors as an undergarments, hosiery and shirting shop - its first sign read 'To the City of Vienna' in tribute to its origins. The shop passed to the Bloch family in the early 1900s and survived both the upheaval of the First World War, when its Austrian founders had to leave Italy, and later Mussolini's racial laws. It is now run by fourth-generation owner Andrew Bloch Fiorelli from a location near Campo Marzio, still selling handmade nightwear, dress shirts, knitwear, ties and hosiery in the old-world style that built its reputation.
Italy / Online
120% Lino is an Italian linen clothing label selling its own shirts, dresses and tailored separates for men and women through its online shop, with a network of flagship stores listed under its Stores page. The Spring/Summer 2026 collection focuses on naturally dyed linen in shades the brand calls soft fade.
Best for Linen Clothing
Italy / Online
Italian online custom shirtmaker with a dedicated one-piece collar program — configure the cloth, they cut the single-piece collar in Italy.
Best for Design-your-own one-piece collar shirts.
Legnano / Lombardy / Online
Milanese label founded in 1969 by Alberto Aspesi as a shirtmaker; expanded into full menswear and womenswear by the late 1970s and is credited with popularizing the down jacket ('piumino') as everyday city wear in Italy.
Best for Field jackets and understated Italian staples.
Aspesi was founded in 1969 by Alberto Aspesi, who started the company in Milan as a shirt manufacturer. Through the 1970s the label moved beyond shirting into complete men's and women's ready-to-wear, working with designers including Franco Moschino, Walter Albini and Marco Zanini. Its advertising over the following decades leaned on serious photographic names - Peter Lindbergh, Robert Frank, Oliviero Toscani and Paolo Roversi - while the clothes themselves stayed deliberately unbranded, without a visible logo. The house is credited with taking the down jacket out of purely technical, sport-oriented use and turning it into an everyday urban garment, a piece it calls the 'piumino.' In 2017 the company was acquired by the Italian private equity firm Armonia SGR. It currently operates around 15 standalone and shop-in-shop locations directly, with its collections also distributed through more than 600 retail outlets worldwide.
Italy
Artisanal Neapolitan shirtmaker crafting hand-cut shirts with exceptional collar construction and fabric selection from top mills.
Best for Polo; Handmade shirts, Neapolitan style.
Francavilla Fontana, Puglia
Bottega Dalmut is Leonida Ferrarese's tailoring house in Francavilla Fontana, Puglia. After studying in New York and working in the marketing offices of Salvatore Ferragamo, he took over the workshop of Maestro Cafueri, founded in 1969, and launched the brand. The atelier sits in a late nineteenth-century Liberty-style palazzo. It makes tailored suits along with ties and shirts and shoes, and it holds fittings in Milan, Zurich, London and Dubai.
Best for Sartorial Suits, Ties
Bottega Dalmut is a tailoring house in Francavilla Fontana, in the province of Brindisi, built by Leonida Ferrarese. He took a degree and a master's in marketing in New York, where he also studied tailoring. He spent time in the marketing offices of Salvatore Ferragamo on Fifth Avenue. He then returned to his home town and took over the historic workshop of Maestro Cafueri, founded in 1969, launching the Bottega Dalmut brand. The atelier occupies a late nineteenth-century palazzo with frescoes and nature-inspired floors in the Liberty style. Clients choose from a wide range of fabrics seated in the salon over a coffee. Everything starts at the cutting table with the tailored suit. The range extends to ties in cashmere or silk, to bow ties and shirts, and to shoes. In January 2020 the Quotidiano di Puglia visited the atelier on via Quinto Ennio. It described a business that exports its suits to Dubai as well as to London and Milan. The house holds made-to-measure appointments in Milan, Zurich, London and Dubai. The midfielder Hakan Çalhanoğlu wore a bespoke midnight-blue herringbone suit from Bottega Dalmut to the Gran Galà del Calcio AIC. The current collection also includes swimwear and suede blazers, together with lightweight wool and silk pieces.
Albino, Bergamo, Italy
Ca Alta focuses on Bergamo shirt makers, Albino-valley Italian shirting, private-label masters going direct.
Best for Dress shirts, made-to-measure
Italy / Online
Italian shirtmaker with an entire one-piece collar collection — linen, jersey, and button-down variants, each made to order and handmade in Italy. Established 1956.
Best for A full made-to-order one-piece collar wardrobe.
Italy / Online
Italian shirt label whose signature is the one-piece collar — Albini-mill cottons, worldwide shipping.
Best for Entry point to the one-piece collar look.
Veneto, Italy
Cycling apparel maker founded in 1946 by Emilio De Marchi, a former Bottecchia team manager, in San Vendemiano, Veneto. Riders including Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali wore its kit, and a suggestion from Louison Bobet led the brand to replace jersey buttons with zippers.
Best for Casualwear, Shirts
De Marchi was founded in 1946 by Emilio De Marchi (1906-1992), a former athlete and team manager for the Bottecchia professional cycling squad, in San Vendemiano in Italy's Veneto region (Treviso province). The company presents itself as one of the oldest firms specializing exclusively in cycling clothing and has remained under the same family's ownership for more than 75 years. Its early decades were shaped by relationships with leading riders of the era, including Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali and Louison Bobet; by the company's own account, a suggestion from Bobet led De Marchi to replace the buttons then used to close cycling jerseys with zippers, a change that spread across the sport. The company later launched a Heritage line reproducing vintage jersey designs from its archive using modern fabrics. De Marchi continues to manufacture technical cycling apparel — jerseys, bib shorts and related kit — for retail customers and team sponsorship programs, presenting itself as a specialist maker rather than a general sportswear brand.
Italy
Founded in 1978 in Castiglione del Lago, Umbria, by Silvana Parrini as a small embroidery workshop, Fioroni grew into a cashmere knitwear specialist under her husband Palmiro Fiorini; acquired by Neapolitan tailoring house Cesare Attolini in 2015, it still hand-finishes its knitwear with around thirty artisans.
Best for Polo Shirts, Artisan; Cashmere, Artisan
Fioroni is an Italian luxury knitwear house based in Castiglione del Lago, on the shore of Lake Trasimeno in Umbria. It began in 1978 as a small artisanal workshop founded by Silvana Parrini, producing embroidery and handcrafted textiles with a single sewing machine and one craftswoman. Her husband, Palmiro Fiorini, later joined the business, and production gradually shifted toward knitwear; the company formally registered its own Fioroni brand in 2008. In 2015 the house was acquired by Cesare Attolini, the well-known Neapolitan bespoke tailoring family, bringing Fioroni into a larger luxury menswear group while it continued to operate its own workshop and label. Today around thirty craftspeople work at the Fioroni factory, combining computerized machinery with hand-finishing: collars, cuffs, sleeves and armholes are stitched, hemmed, buttonholed and buttoned by hand on many pieces. The house sources cashmere from Mongolia, China and Kashmir and is known in menswear retail circles (stocked by shops such as Guarino, Braun Hamburg, Gabucci and Sartale) for soft-finish sweaters and cardigans at the higher end of Italian knitwear.
Ginosa / Puglia / Online
Angelo Inglese of Ginosa — the Puglian shirtmaker whose hand-made one-piece collars dressed royalty and made the construction famous again.
Best for The signature hand-made one-piece collar.
Italy
Italian shirt brand named for and based in Portofino, on the Ligurian coast, positioned as 'Italian luxury since 1979'; known for washed cotton and denim shirts with a signature embroidered-sun chest motif, in a range of fading treatments from light to dark.
Best for Tuscan casual polos; Shirts, casual, Tuscan style
Giannetto Portofino takes its name from Portofino on the Italian Riviera, and its own site dates the brand to 1979 and describes it as based in that town. The shirts are made from cottons including honeycomb weave, denim and flannel, using washing and finishing techniques the brand calls 'sabbiature,' producing a faded, worn-in look. A recurring 'embroidered sun' motif on the chest functions as the brand's signature detail. Sourcing on the brand's manufacturing location is inconsistent: Giannetto's own marketing ties it closely to Portofino/Liguria, while at least one U.S. retailer describes the shirts as handmade in Naples.
Italy
Specialist shirtmaker producing impeccably crafted button-down and one-piece collar shirts since 1960. Modena-based with Japanese fabric sourcing.
Best for BD collar polos; One-piece collar shirts, Oxford shirts
Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
Reggio Calabria streetwear brand making sweatshirts and T-shirts in Italy for young men and women; based at Via Gebbione in Reggio Calabria, Calabria.
Best for Streetwear, youth
Grios is an Italian streetwear brand based in Reggio Calabria, in the southern region of Calabria, making sweatshirts, T-shirts and related casualwear for young men and women. Its garments are manufactured in Italy, and the company is listed in Italian wholesale trade directories at Via Gebbione 116 in Reggio Calabria, with Giovanni Quattrone named as its business contact. Italian wholesale-clothing directories document its business address and regional identity; independent consumer or fashion-press coverage is limited.
Veneto / Online
Guy Rover is a Veneto shirt manufacturer known for soft button-downs and polo shirts with understated finishing.
Best for Soft-roll button-downs, select-shop grade.
Piazzetta, Capri town
Opened on the Piazzetta in 1906, La Parisienne popularized the slim cropped 'Capri pants' it tailored for Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn in the 1950s. The family boutique still cuts brightly printed linen trousers, shirts and resortwear.
Best for Capri pants and resortwear
Gioia del Colle, Puglia
Leonardo Colacicco’s LC23 combines Puglian streetwear with tailored references from Gioia del Colle. Shirts and complete looks sit beside more casual pieces, with production associated with Puglia, Italy.
Best for Streetwear, Shirts, Total Look
London / Made in Italy / Online
Italian-made wardrobe staples — its soft polos and shirts include the one-piece collar construction, cited among the canonical makers.
Best for Italian-made one-piece collar polos.
Italy
Massimo Alba is a Milanese designer known for his garment-dyed shirts in washed cottons, linens, and silks. Its offer focuses on relaxed Italian shirts, knitwear and tailoring, and production is designed in Milan, manufactured in Italy using Italian fabrics.
Best for Relaxed Italian shirts, knitwear and tailoring
Castellana Grotte / Puglia / Online
Third-generation Puglian camiceria (1960) — hand-sewn shirts in Albini and Thomas Mason cloth from the trulli country.
Best for Hand-sewn Puglian shirts in noble cottons.
Veneto, Italy
Italian outerwear brand founded in 1958 in Castellanza (Varese, Lombardy) for raincoats and sportswear; its 1970s design collaborators included Walter Albini and Giorgio Armani. Brought into the Veneto-headquartered Slowear group (with Incotex, Glanshirt and Zanone) in 2003.
Best for Outerwear, casual
Montedoro was founded in 1958 in Castellanza, Varese, Lombardy, initially producing raincoats before broadening into sportswear-influenced jackets. During the 1970s the label worked with designers including Walter Albini and Giorgio Armani. In 2003, Montedoro was brought together with Glanshirt, Zanone and Incotex under the Slowear umbrella, a group whose managing company is based in Isola Vicentina, Veneto. Montedoro today operates as one of Slowear's four specialist labels.
Italy
Orazio Luciano makes Neapolitan tailoring with soft shoulders, light structure and hand-finished details. Ready-to-wear gives an introduction to the house cut, while bespoke and made-to-measure require direct consultation.
Best for Bespoke Neapolitan polos; soft Neapolitan construction and shirts
Vicenza / Veneto / Online
Vicenza-based menswear house — refined tailoring and shirt program. One-piece collar available on made-to-measure and bespoke request.
Best for Vicenza refined menswear
Grumento Nova, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Screen-printing and promotional-apparel business (Serival di Sinisgalli Lorenzo) based in Tramutola, province of Potenza, Basilicata, offering custom-printed workwear, sportswear and branded merchandise for businesses.
Best for Casual shirts, polo
Serival, formally Serival di Sinisgalli Lorenzo, is a business-to-business supplier of personalized clothing and promotional merchandise based in Tramutola, in Italy's Basilicata region. The company's core service is customization: screen printing, embroidery, sublimation, UV printing, laser engraving and digital printing applied to workwear, sportswear and other apparel for client businesses and public bodies.
Italy
Historic Neapolitan shirtmaker founded in 1874. Siniscalchi survived two world wars, the 1980 earthquake and the decline of local manufacturing to remain a specialist in Neapolitan shirtmaking, preserving the house’s long tailoring continuity.
Best for Since 1874 — survived wars and earthquakes, entirely hand-made bespoke in Naples.
Albino, Bergamo, Italy (Founded Leeds, 1796)
Founded in Leeds in 1796, Thomas Mason supplied British regiments and Jermyn Street shirtmakers. Acquired by Albini in 1992.
Best for Italian-made shirting fabrics under the Thomas Mason name
Veneto / Online
Veneto shirtmaking family since 1956 — washed and travel shirts from the Vicenza district.
Best for Modern Italian dress shirts.
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