10 stores · curated ORBIS register
Traditional pattern cutting meets a virtual fitting mirror at Exquisuits by de Juana, the Bilbao tailoring house on Gran Vía. Its commissioned clothing includes suits and shirts, with a separate Sneakers Atelier offering custom trainers. Edinburgh's Kinloch Anderson makes kilts and tartan trousers, pairing its retail shop with a workroom for Highland dress. Near Vicenza, Ravazzolo constructs unfused jackets without glued canvas, continuing a family tailoring workshop rooted in 1896.
New York / Online
American clothier founded in 1818 and associated with the ready-made suit and the polo button-down collar. May 2025: house opened a 10,000 sq ft global flagship at 195 Broadway, returning downtown near the 1818 Catherine-and-Cherry origin after leaving 346 Madison.
Best for The original OCBD lineage.
Cagliari, Sardinia
Cagliari tailoring house founded in 1850 by Giovanni Castangia, Sardinia's first bespoke tailor; still cuts and sews everything in its own Cagliari workshop, and has produced for Battistoni and Bergdorf Goodman's Jay Kos label.
Best for Outerwear, Coats, Traditional
Castangia traces its founding to 1850, when Giovanni Castangia opened a tailoring shop in Cagliari, Sardinia - under Savoy rule at the time - described in trade coverage as the first bespoke tailoring house of its kind in Italy. The house built a regional reputation for its fabrics and craftsmanship, received a Royal Warrant from the House of Savoy, and exhibited at the Turin Expo in 1898, the Paris Expo in 1900, and in London in 1911. Castangia is described as Italy's longest continuously running tailoring house still manufacturing everything in its own Cagliari workshop rather than outsourcing production. Beyond its own label, the house has produced garments under the Battistoni name and supplied Bergdorf Goodman's hand-tailored Jay Kos collection. Its client list, per trade press, has included Bill Clinton, Oliver Stone and Silvio Berlusconi.
Via Chiaia, Naples / Online
Neapolitan gentleman's institution since 1887 — from hatter to full sartorial wardrobe, Via dei Mille.
Best for Classic Neapolitan gentleman's kit.
Abando, bilbao / Spain
Exquisuits by de Juana is a bespoke tailoring house on Gran Vía in Bilbao that traces its craft back to 1840, blending traditional pattern-cutting with a 3D virtual fitting mirror it calls Alta Sastrería 3.0. Beyond made-to-measure suits, shirts and shoes, the atelier also runs Sneakers Atelier for custom trainers and serves grooms across northern Spain.
Best for Bespoke tailoring, made-to-measure suits, shirtmaking, footwear
Via Toledo, Naples / Online
Naples menswear house founded in 1878 by Scottish textile importer Michael Gutteridge, first at Piazza Dante then Via Toledo's Palazzo Zevallos di Stigliano; acquired by the Capri Group in 1997 and relaunched as a multi-brand retailer.
Best for Entry-level Neapolitan tailoring.
Gutteridge was founded in 1878 in Naples by Michael Gutteridge, a Scottish entrepreneur whose first shop, on Piazza Dante, imported cotton and wool textiles sourced partly through his father-in-law, a Yorkshire textile manufacturer. The business soon expanded into a second, larger space inside Palazzo Zevallos di Stigliano on Via Toledo, a building designed by the baroque architect Cosimo Fanzago. What began as a fabric warehouse grew into a multi-brand retailer and, eventually, a mail-order business reaching customers across Europe. The Naples name held its place as a fixture of the city's retail history for more than a century until 1997, when the Capri Group acquired the historic Via Toledo premises and relaunched Gutteridge as a contemporary multi-brand menswear retailer while keeping its Anglo-Neapolitan identity. The brand today trades on that mixed heritage — English textile-trading roots paired with a Neapolitan tailoring sensibility — across its stores and online shop.
Leith
Kinloch Anderson has hand-made kilts, tartan trousers and Highland dress in Edinburgh since 1868 and holds a Royal Warrant. Its premises pair a shop with the workroom, offering sporrans, scarves, tartan throws and cloth by the metre.
Best for Highland dress and tartan
Graben 13, Vienna
Tailors of the k.u.k. court since 1858 behind Adolf Loos’s 1913 portal — the most beautiful small shopfront in retail; Marlene Dietrich’s tailcoats cut upstairs.
Best for Viennese bespoke, Knize Ten cologne
Knize has tailored in Vienna since 1858 and holds a double distinction: purveyor to the former imperial court, and owner of what may be the most architecturally important small shop in the world — the Graben salon designed by Adolf Loos in 1913, its green marble portal and coolly perfect walnut interior a manifesto of Viennese modernism preserved intact. The house dressed emperors, and Marlene Dietrich famously had her tailoring cut here; Knize Ten, the fragrance created in the 1920s with a bottle design associated with the Loos circle, became one of the first great gentleman's colognes and is still sold at the counter. Bespoke tailoring in the Austrian manner — quieter than the English, more structured than the Italian — continues upstairs. Visit for the Loos rooms even without a commission; leave with Knize Ten, modernism in a bottle.
Step into the Loos salon even just for the fragrance counter; the interior is freely visitable, and Knize Ten's bottle belongs to the same design moment as the walls.
Hawa Sadak, Jaipur
Raniwala 1881 works by appointment on jadau, polki and gemstone jewellery, including substantial wedding pieces. The consultation format suits clients comparing stones, settings and custom details rather than making an impulse purchase.
Best for Jadau, polki, gemstone, and traditional wedding jewelry by appointment
Veneto, Italy
Vicenza-area tailoring house rooted in an 1896 family workshop in Grumolo delle Abbadesse; formalized as an industrial company in 1959; still constructs every jacket unfused, without glued canvas.
Best for Venetian-school suits and made-to-measure
Ravazzolo's tailoring lineage in the Vicenza area goes back to 1896, when the first Ravazzolo tailor's shop operated in Grumolo delle Abbadesse, a town in the province of Vicenza near the Palladian villas the region is known for. The family workshop grew across generations, transforming into a proper artisan workshop in the early 1950s and then, by the end of that decade, into what became an industrial tailoring company - formally established under the name Confezioni Ravazzolo (Confrav) in 1959. The company has built its reputation around a specific construction choice: it has never produced a fused (glued-canvas) garment, relying instead on traditional full-canvas construction throughout its history, a point the company and industry press both cite as central to its identity within Italian tailoring.
Śródmieście
A family Warsaw bespoke tailoring house combining hand tailoring with contemporary menswear.Established 1894.
Best for Hand-tailored bespoke menswear from a Warsaw family house since 1894
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