Handmade soft tailoring anchors Cesare Attolini, with a current flagship on Via Filangieri following its earlier Via Vetriera workshop history. On the slopes of Vesuvius, D'Avino Napoli makes bespoke shirts with twenty-five hand operations and offers a choice of collars. Its collar options include one-piece construction, within Fiorenzo Auricchio's workshop approach to made-to-order Neapolitan shirts. Salvio Gioielleria (4th generation) works in gold and coral inside Palazzo Marigliano, continuing the family shop bought by Maria in 1922.
Heir of the man who invented the unstructured Neapolitan jacket — hand-made perfection, no compromise. Historic workshop was on Via Vetriera; current flagship is on Via Filangieri. Robb Report (2010) says Vincenzo designed the slimmer, high-armhole jacket while working for Gennaro Rubinacci, then opened his own shop at 12 Via Vetriera before WWII.
Best for The original soft jacket, hand-made throughout.
The Attolini name carries a specific historical claim: in the 1930s, Vincenzo Attolini, working in Naples, deconstructed the stiff English jacket — removing padding and structure to create the soft, unlined Neapolitan style whose natural shoulder and fluid drape now define an entire school of tailoring. His descendants formalized the family house under the Cesare Attolini name, and it remains family-run, producing jackets that pass through extraordinary quantities of handwork in its Neapolitan workshops. Nothing about the operation is scaled for volume; the house makes limited numbers and dresses clients who want the original article rather than the style's many imitations. The jackets are the point — spalla camicia shoulders, hand-sewn throughout — with trousers, shirts, and outerwear in support. For students of tailoring, this is a pilgrimage: the source of the softest silhouette in menswear.
Try a jacket one size from your usual — the unstructured cut fits closer to the body than padded tailoring, and the house's proportions surprise first-time wearers.
Fiorenzo Auricchio's workshop on Vesuvius' slope — 25 hand operations per shirt, the summit of Neapolitan shirtmaking; any collar, including one-piece, cut bespoke.
Naples jeweler on Via San Biagio dei Librai, inside the Renaissance Palazzo Marigliano; bought as a shop in 1922 by Maria, widowed after her husband Paolo's earlier goldsmith workshop in the Sanità district closed, and still family-run in gold, silver and coral.
Best for Neapolitan coral and gold.
Salvio Gioielleria's history begins with Paolo, who ran a goldsmithing workshop with more than twenty craftsmen in Naples's Sanità district in the early 20th century — an operation that closed amid wartime disruption. After Paolo's death, his widow Maria, left with three children, bought a shop in 1922 at Via San Biagio dei Librai 41, inside the 16th-century Palazzo Marigliano in the heart of Naples's historic center — the same address the business trades from today. The family has run the shop continuously since that purchase, a stretch the business itself marks as 96 years of operation in its own materials, and describes its continuity as passed 'from generation to generation.' The jewelry mixes gold, silver and coral — coral working has its own long tradition along the Bay of Naples — and the shop also runs a workshop doing restoration of antique and religious objects, engraving, and repairs to gold and silver pieces, plus routine services like watch battery changes.
Founded in 1941, this Naples leather-jacket house is run by master craftsman Alfredo Rifugio from a workshop in Pompei; each jacket is entirely hand-sewn, some using over 2,000 stitches and up to 80 hours of work across ten artisans.
Neapolitan tie house founded in 1948 by Mario Ulturale in a home workshop producing semi-finished ties; his son Vincenzo (b.1957) opened the first full made-to-measure workshop in 1985. Known for handmade seven-fold ties and a superstition-referencing cornetto charm sewn into the tail; now also in Rome and Milan.
Best for Lucky-charm seven-fold ties.
Ulturale's history begins just after the Second World War, when Mario Ulturale set up a small tailoring operation inside his own home in Naples in 1948, producing semi-finished ties for other workshops rather than finished retail products. His son Vincenzo, born in 1957, grew up inside that trade and eventually took the business further, opening the company's first proper workshop in 1985 — the point at which Ulturale began assembling complete, made-to-measure ties under its own name rather than supplying components to others.
The house's best-known product is its seven-fold tie: a Neapolitan construction method in which a single piece of silk is folded — three folds on one side, four on the other — without any interlining, a technique prized for drape and hand-finishing skill rather than for using extra material. Ulturale is also associated with a small superstition-referencing detail, a cornetto (horn charm), historically sewn into the tail of some of its ties, and with novelty pieces like its '00 Tiè' model.
Originally a single Naples workshop and boutique, Ulturale has since added retail locations in Rome and Milan, while keeping its ties handmade rather than machine-assembled.
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.
Florence bespoke shoemaker founded in 1953 by Sicilian-born Calogero Mannina; the Oltrarno workshop near Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti, now run by son Antonio, still hand-produces made-to-measure men's and women's footwear.
Best for Neapolitan bespoke shoes
Mannina was founded in 1953 by Calogero Mannina, who left his hometown of Santa Margherita di Belice in Sicily at age eighteen to open a small cobbler's workshop in Florence. The business began on Via de' Barbadori and today operates from Via Guicciardini 16/R, in the Oltrarno district a short walk from the Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. Antonio Mannina, Calogero's son, now runs the workshop, continuing entirely handmade production of bespoke and made-to-measure shoes.
This Naples workshop hand-throws and hand-finishes Capodimonte porcelain in the Bourbon-era tradition, producing figurines, centerpieces, wedding favors and decorative pieces. Creations are made to order and sold through the studio's e-shop.
Best for Porcelain, Capodimonte ceramics, bomboniere
Artigiano del Guanto traces to a workshop in northern Naples run by Giovanni Ricciardiello, described on the brand's own site as a "master glove maker for 50 years" carrying forward the city's old Neapolitan glove-making families.
Best for A family-run Naples workshop hand-stitching gloves for its own line
Artigiano del Guanto traces to a workshop in northern Naples run by Giovanni Ricciardiello, described on the brand's own site as a "master glove maker for 50 years" carrying forward the city's old Neapolitan glove-making families. In 2016 the laboratory was renewed and rebranded under its current name, with Ricciardiello's children — Francesco, Mimmo, and Flora — joining to modernize production and bring the house to a wider market without moving it out of Naples.
The process described is fully manual: leather is dampened and stretched using water-soaked cloths, cut and embroidered by hand, and joined using several traditional stitch types — stroke, hand-stitching, piquet, and saddle stitch — before hand-lining with thermal hands and manual hemming. Materials span African lamb, South American carpincho, Peruvian peccary, Canadian deer, and sheep leather, a materials range consistent with a house working across both fine dress gloves and sturdier everyday pairs.
The workshop states it produces gloves for Giorgio Armani, MaxMara, Coccinelle, and Pinko, which places it as a manufacturing partner to fashion houses as well as a maker selling under its own name — a dual role common among the Naples glove families that once supplied Milan and Paris from the same benches. Alongside Omega, it belongs to Naples' continuing glove-making tradition.
Marco and Antonella D'Auria founded their San Gregorio Armeno workshop in 2011, with Marco creating nativity figures and Antonella dressing them according to the Neapolitan 1700s canon. The shop also makes corni portafortuna (lucky horn charms) and Pulcinella masks and statues.
Best for Neapolitan nativity figures and pulcinella masks
Italguanto is run by the Pistola family in the historic glove-makers' quarter of Naples, where Antonio now manages production with his sons Michele and Mario. The workshop selects fine leathers and finishes and sews each glove by hand.
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