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By Bernhard Roetzel.

In part one of this article I gave an overview of the state of bespoke tailoring in Germany, including its history. Today I will recommend some specific tailors, including my own experiences.

 

Volkmar Arnulf
www.arnulf-massatelier.de

Of the old masters trained by the pre-war tailors, only Volkmar Arnulf is still working. He is considered the doyen of German tailoring by most of his colleagues.

Volkmar Arnulf became a Herrenschneidermeister in 1962, after he had trained both as a men’s and as a ladies’ tailor. He was very active in Berlin’s guild of tailors and in the World Federation of Master Tailors.

For several decades Arnulf ran a shop at Kurfürstendamm, Berlin’s famous boulevard, but he relocated to Potsdam 10 years ago. The shop is located in a historic townhouse with the workrooms in the back rooms.

Volkmar Arnulf offers precise cutting, excellent handwork, perfect pattern matching and a slim, slightly 1960ish silhouette. In addition you will experience meeting a very polite and modest person and an extremely knowledgable craftsman.

I have never ordered anything from Volkmar Arnulf, but Torsten Grunwald in Denmark has ordered several suits there and has written about his experience.

I had the trousers of half a dozen of my Savile Row suits altered there about 10 years ago, when they needed a little extra width at the waist. His tailors did an excellent job hand sewing little patches of matching satin to the inner waistband.

 

Max Dietl
www.max-dietl.de

The biggest name in German postwar tailoring was Max Dietl in Munich. The founder was an excellent tailor and at the same time a good businessman. He made for many German movie stars and TV greats because Munich was the centre of the postwar film industry.

Despite being devoted to his craft, Dietl started selling handmade Italian menswear in the 1970s. He was the biggest Brioni customer in Germany for decades; he also offers haute couture for women.

The shop is directly opposite the Opera house, comprising four floors of a complete building. The bespoke department is on the top floor. The present owner of the house is Max Dietl Jr. He is not a trained tailor, so the tailoring department has been run by employed cutters since the death of his father.

The company makes for customers of all ages - very often younger men are brought in by their fathers. Even though the majority of customers look for Brioni, Kiton, Stefano Ricci or Zilli, the bespoke department still has a very good reputation and lots of work.

There is no house style but the suits that are made there for Dietl Jr look very much like a well-fitting Attolini suit. I personally prefer the double-breasted suits they make for Wolfgang Grupp, the founder of the German sportswear and underwear brand Trigema. As he is very slim the outer chestpocket is slightly under the left lapel, which is quite a unique style.

 

Detlev Diehm
www.diehmdesign.eu

In Munich you should have a look at Detlev Diehm. His shop is located in an old Bavarian house in a residential area not far from the centre. Diehm trained as a tailor before he studied fashion design.

He spent most of his working life as a designer and creative director, returning to bespoke tailoring a couple of years ago. About half of his customers are from abroad, which is unusual for German tailors. He regularly holds trunk shows at the Les Bains hotel in Paris.

Diehm cuts and fits every garment himself. One tailor works for him in the workroom downstairs. Diehm is the only German tailor I am aware of who offers a house style: his trade mark style is a softly tailored double-breasted with wide lapels; his coats tend to be on the shorter side. He has a preference for luxurious fabrics such as cashmere.

I had a DB suit made from a green Solaro by Diehm about five years ago. The first fitting was very close to the mark except for the length of the coat. I wanted 3cm more, Diehm insisted on 1.5 cm. At the second fitting I agreed that 1.5 cm was better.

 

Stefan Sicking
sicking-muenchen.de

A tailor with a much bigger following in Munich is Stefan Sicking, largely because he has been around longer. I was introduced to him more 20 years ago, when his shop was around the corner from the legendary Schumann’s American Bar.

Despite his long experience, Sicking is not very well known outside Munich because he shuns publicity to the point of refusing requests for interviews. He is a very able tailor with a visible influence from Italy. Still, he is typically German in terms of precision cutting and the quality of the make.

 

Kathrin Emmer
handgefertigte-massanzuege.de

A Munich expat is Kathrin Emmer. She was born and trained there, before moving to Berlin to work for Volkmar Arnulf. She became a master tailor and opened her own shop in 2003 in her flat in Berlin. I met her briefly afterwards in 2005 when I happened to be in Berlin because I was attending the Congress of The World Federation of Master Tailors.

We met again in 2009 after I had moved to Berlin myself. I wanted to try her then and had a DB suit made. I wanted something in a 1940s type of cut with a ventless coat and wide pleated trousers. I showed her several pictures and talked at length about my vision for the suit. She didn’t say much but at the first fitting it turned out that she had listened very carefully, because the cut was faultless.

Emmer offers the old-school quality that she got used to while working for Volkmar Arnulf. She makes each garment completely herself, which sometimes results in a long waiting list. She has tried outworkers but was never happy with the results.

Emmer moved to Potsdam in 2012. She receives her customers in the basement of her house, which is half atelier and half fitting room. She is willing to fulfil most sartorial wishes if they are within her professional capacity. In my experience while she is reluctant to impose ideas on a customer, she will advise the novice.

Most of her output is sober business suits for men, but she does make for a couple of women, who mainly order overcoats and suits. Since the pandemic she has been making more sports coats and separate trousers. When a customers is able to define his wishes precisely, I find she will usually deliver a first fitting that is very close to the mark.

So far I have had four suits made by Emmer and the cut has always been precise. She likes the sleeves of the coat slightly longer so at the second fitting I always make sure the length is correct. In general she prefers a slightly ‘younger’ look. Jokingly she calls my style ‘grandfatherly' but she still does it very well.

 

James Whitfield
www.jameswhitfieldbespoke.com

Another expat is James Whitfield. He is English but works in Berlin. He trained as cutter and tailor at Anderson & Sheppard in London.

In 2012 he came to Berlin as the head cutter for the newly established bespoke house Purwin & Radczun. As this business depended on the head cutter it never recovered from his departure in 2019; Whitfield set up his own studio in the historic Kewenig warehouse.

Whitfield is the only Savile Row-trained bespoke tailor working in Germany. He offers not only a different kind of cutting and tailoring but also a unique way of handling customers. Don’t expect servile chitchat: he is very matter-of-fact and professional. He doesn’t speak fluent German but this is not a problem for his customers.

Despite being Anderson & Sheppard-trained, Whitfield has developed his own brand of Savile Row style. He cuts the coat a bit longer, with a clear shoulder line and wide lapels, especially on his double-breasted suits. Everything is made in his workshop by himself and an employee, who he has trained himself.

I had a jacket made by James Whitfield from a length of vintage Scabal jacketing. After many suits made by continental tailors I felt like I was back on Savile Row. The first fitting was with sleeves and James only made chalk marks, he didn’t unpick the shoulder seam. We had agreed on a very English cut with a hight waist, small armholes, slanted pockets, a centre vent and a long coat.

At the second fitting I was curious to know the length of the coat and at home I measured the longest jacket I had made by John Coggin in Savile Row. It turned out that James Whitfield had cut the exact same length.

The was very much the way I like it: no fuss, exact work, a good result. Germans usually love Whitfield because he has that air of authority in sartorial matters that many younger German tailors lack. And his suits have class that can otherwise only be found in London.

 

Carlo Jösch
carlo-joesch.de

In the Rhineland there are still quite a few bespoke tailors. One is Carlo Jösch in Cologne. He studied pattern-making because he wanted to become a fashion designer, and did not train as a tailor. Nevertheless we works by hand in the traditional way.

Jösch also trained as a kilt-maker in Scotland. The press often mentions this and he has become a bit tired of it. He does make kilts regularly, but his main business is suits, jackets, trousers and overcoats.

Jösch prepares a toile fitting before he cuts the actual fabric - the usual way to work in ladies’ tailoring and haute couture. It works well in men’s tailoring too. After the toile fitting you have the usual fittings.

Jösch’s workshop is in the centre of Cologne in a neighbourhood of antique shops, jewellers and art dealers.

 

Julian Weyand
julianweyand.com

A promising tailor of the younger generation is Julian Weyand in Düsseldorf. He trained with Heinz-Josef Radermacher and worked there for a while before setting up his own business.

Radermacher is one of the big old names from the 1970s-1990s. His style is influenced by the Radermacher silhouette; the double-breasted suits he usually wears show this pedigree.

Weyand trained both as a men’s and a ladies’ tailor. His first fitting is very rough, serving mainly to  check balance and proportions. The ensuing two fittings are performed in the usual way.

Tailors in Germany love to unpick the shoulder during a first fitting, but Weyand often prefers chalkmarks. Once he has good pattern for a customer he will manage with one fitting for following orders.

The interior of the shop is modern and clean, but it still looks like a tailor shop with dark green walls and some half-finished garments on display. Like most tailors Weyand mainly makes suits and jackets, but some customers also order shirtjackets or just a pair of trousers.

 

Schmidt & Schallmey
www.schmidt-schallmey.de

Frankfurt is the number-one suit city in Germany because it is the centre of finance - it’s popular for trunk shows of Savile Row tailors for this reason. And just a few minutes walk from the Opera house is one of the best-known local tailors, Schmidt & Schallmey.

Bespoke tailor Roland Schmidt (above) formed the company with Sven Schallmey, an experienced made-to-measure salesman. The focus of the business was on bespoke work, but they don’t see the point in sending away people who are not ready for bespoke or simply prefer MTM.

Schmidt worked for many years in Frankfurt before he started the business with Schallmey. He used to be responsible for the bespoke tailoring in n MTM shop but wanted to start his own operation.

Schmidt is a passionate collector of books about cutting and tailoring. His collections fills shelves in the shop. He studies these books frequently to find new inspirations or solutions from the past. He claims he can tailor as lightly and softly as any tailor in Italy.

From my personal experience I would always recommend ordering an Italian suit from an Italian and an English suit from an English tailor. But judging from the suits I have seen from Roland Schmidt over the past 10 years, I think he offers the degree of ‘Italian' that most Germans are happy with.

Germans would often not be happy with the real thing from Italy, not least because of the difficulties resulting from bad communication and the unwillingness of Italians to make something that is not really their style.

An update: when I asked Schmidt for his prices he told me that Schallmey will actually leave the business soon. Schmidt will continue alone as Roland Schmidt Maßschneiderei. He still employs four tailors and one apprentice.

 

Markus Schnurr
www.individuelle-handgefertigte-massanzuege.de

A more unusual place for a bespoke tailor is Offenburg, in the south-west of Germany. At least today. When Markus Schnurr was looking for a shop that he could take over in 2017 he found a business owned by the tailor Herbert Martin, which had for many years served local businesspeople, industry employees, academics and lawyers.

Schnurr had trained as a tailor in Metzingen and worked in the costume departments of TV studios and theatres in Baden-Baden and Stuttgart. In 2014 he started working for Max Dietl.

Schnurr cuts very precisely in my experience, so he usually finishes the garment after two fittings. He works on his own so he has complete control over everything, from the pattern to the buttonholes.

He is used to making contemporary suit styles but also knows how to cut a timeless style. I have ordered two pieces from him: a green flannel blazer and a checked double-breasted suit. At the first order I told him where I wanted the outer chest pocket, the width of the lapels, the size of the pocket flaps and the overall length of the coat.

He remembered that he made jackets to similar specifications for some older customers of Dietl; most of his customers today want narrow lapels, small flaps, short coats. For the first fitting he simulated the position of the chest pocket with a strip of fabric and I still found it too high so I chalked the position to the fabric myself. At the second order he knew my preferences and it went smoothly.

The finished suit was adorned with lots of very well executed hand-stitching around the edges. He was a bit disappointed because he noticed that I wasn’t too happy with it. But it was not an issue because on the checked fabric the stitches are hardly visible. A friend of mine really loved them and asked for them when he ordered a suit from Markus Schnurr later.

Prices:

All prices are for a two-piece suit. However, the tailors vary in preferring to quote prices with or without fabric. Apologies that this creates some inconsistency.

  • Volkmar Arnulf: €6000 (with fabric)
  • Max Dietl: €6500 (without)
  • Detlev Diehm: €4800 (with)
  • Stefan Sicking: €6600 (with)
  • Kathrin Emmer €4800 (with)
  • James Whitfield: €4200 (without)
  • Carlo Jösch: €5000 (without)
  • Schmidt & Schallmey €5500 (without)
  • Markus Schnurr : €3400 (without)

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Hristo

Thank you very much for the article. It is great to give some visibility to German tailors so that people know that they exist as an option.
The URL for Diehm is broken and I guess (only a guess) that it might be like that because it seems he works for Reiser Manufaktur (he is listed on their working website as their cutter).
Something that unfortunately puts me away in some of the mentioned tailors is that I see here and there some machine padding (like for example on the Instagram of Diehm there are some machine padded collars) and for me this is important.

Hristo

Hi Simon, so you mean that some tailors do the collar twice? Once for the fittings and once for the final suit?

Hristo

Thank you!

Bernhard Roetzel

Detlev Diehm works with Reiser Manufaktur in the way that he can use their fitting rooms which are nearer to the centre of the town. The photos you see here were taken in his shop and workshop where I visited him earlier this year. You can easily contact him through Instagram.

Hristo

Thank you for the clarification!

Detlev

Hi HRSTO, thank you for mentioning the link. It should be working but I will check. My work for Reiser should not interfere with it, since I‘m only artist in residence there.

Hristo

Thank you! Now the website works, but the SSL/TLS certificate needs to be fixed.
Thank you for the clarification!

Hristo

An hour ago, I checked at Max Dietl. It is time for me to buy a new casual suit and some pairs of odd trousers, so I wanted to browse their swatch books for suitable fabrics. I was dressed casually with jeans and sneakers and didn’t look like the type of person who would buy something, so the staff sent me away with the argument that I need to make an appointment. Which is funny considering that they have enough idle personnel in the completely empty shop and I don’t see what would be the problem to browse the swatch books even alone. The staff was not nice and it appeared as if I was being sent away out of prejudice and or pure laziness to serve a client who does not look like an Arab Sheikh even when there were no other clients.
Compare this with for example Huntsman who say that every child is treated at their premises as a future client. Or compare that with Joe Morgan, who is always super nice.
Sorry, but why would I spend my money in Germany? The customer service is not corresponding the price tag. This is something that one could often experience at German restaurants. The client is sometimes treated with the attitude that the one needs to be grateful for the privilege to be allowed to pay a lot of money to get some food.
Of course at small operations I would always do an appointment in advance, but Max Dietl is a huge shop, not a one man show and it would have been zero effort for the idle staff to let me check if I could find a fabric I like that I could have potentially let them tailor.

Chris

I think it’s best to avoid extrapolating one bad experience and concluding that one should not spend their money in the country of Germany. Rants are rarely helpful to anyone.

Hristo

Hi Chris,
you are right that I could and maybe should have just written “there” instead of Germany. My affect comes from a very fresh memory of a video on Huntsman regarding the fact that they get a lot of tourist visitors because of the Kingsman movies and still they try to treat every child visiting because of Kingsman as a potential client. So this fresh memory created a contrast that otherwise wouldn’t have been so large.

Sven Krolczik

Please dont lump us all together 😉

Johannes

Lovely line up!

I’d throw in Sebastian Hoofs from Cologne as well. Quite a structured style, but definetly up there.

Bernhard Roetzel

I have planned to visit Sebastian for a long time but it has never worked out so far. I know that he has quite a following in and around Cologne.

Thomas B

I have 4 sport coats, 3 suits, and numerous trousers from Sebastian Hoofs and can only recommend him. Quite a refreshing experience. While the style is structured, the construction is not necessarily heavily padded or rigid. He has developed his own cutting system, which he is about to publish.

teekay

Wow, now I’m super jealous! One day I’ll save enough money to have something made at his shop. In the meantime I’ll admire his work from afar.

Tamaki

Thank you for the very informative and useful post. I think this topic about German tailors was missing from PermanentStyle, and it covered nicely. It gave a good list of tailors to look out for and what kind of tailoring they offer, thus helping one decide which ones to go for depending on their preferences

Bernhard Roetzel

Thank you for your feedback!

Lindsay McKee

This is just thrilling…astounding article on the listing of German Tailors….period!!!
Vielen Dank, Bernhard!

Bernhard Roetzel

Thank you for your kind words, Lindsay.

Kent

This is an excellent article, well written and very informative. We are very fortunate to benefit from Bernhard’s comprehensive knowledge and experience of bespoke tailoring. I hope that he will become a regular contributor to PS.

Bernhard Roetzel

Thank you, Kent. It was a huge pleasure for me to contribute this article thus reaching a huge audience of knowledgeable readers.

Burt

In central Germany there’s a young tailor whose work looks promising, Sven Krolczik. I’ve been following him on Insta for some while now.
https://www.instagram.com/svenkrolczik_bespoke/
I’m happy with my London tailors, but if the city Kassel were easier accesible, perhaps one day…

Bernhard Roetzel

Sven Krolczik has been on my list for a while and one of the photographers that I work with has taken photos there. So far I haven’t made it to his shop.

Andreas

Honestly, if I had that kind of money to spend on a bespoke suit, I’d just fly to London or Italy to have a suit made instead. Other than the convenience of not having to travel (if you live in/near one of the cities mentioned in the article), I don’t see any advantage in buying a German suit.

Bernhard Roetzel

Very good point, Andreas. If you are not convinced of the benefits of German tailoring there is no point of ordering a suit from a German tailor. If you prefer English or Italian tailoring you will never be happy with anything else. When I have a suit made by a German tailor it is because I want what this tailor can offer.
Having reached the third decade of having suits made I am now at the point that my bespoke suits look 80 percent like my suit and only 20 percent like English, German, Austrian, Czech, Spanish, Polish or whatever tailoring.

Jayson

Not including Max Mogg is odd

Hristo

On his website it is stated that he offers both MTM and bespoke suits.
It is also listed that his bespoke cutter is Alex David Hall in London. So it is interesting how exactly this works. Maybe the customers get measured by Maximilian Mogg in Germany and then Alex David Hall tries to cut the pattern without having seen the customer. And to compensate they promise as many fittings as necessary.
Maybe it’s worth asking Maximilian Mogg for more info how it works.

Bernhard Roetzel

I know of what Maximilian Mogg is doing in the bespoke field.
His system is very English in the respect of the cutter (Maximilian Mogg himself) measuring the customer and then having the suit cut by someone who hasn’t seen the client. Tailors in Savile Row have worked like this for decades and the system seems to work.
I have talked to Maximilian about his system and I understood that he even cuts the suits himself. But maybe I am wrong.
I decided not to include Maximilian Mogg’s bespoke also because all the other tailors portrayed in this article measure, cut, fit, recut and make the suits personally on their premises all alone or with the help of tailors they employ.
Maximilian Mogg’s system is similar to the bespoke service offered by Massura in Munich and I haven’t mentioned them either.
I am sure Maximilian Mogg would be worth a try and and a review.

Nathanael

Hi, Nathanael here from MAXIMILIAN MOGG. Allow me to step in and offer some clarification: In addition to MTM, we also offer London bespoke. After Max or one of our team members take the measurements, the suit is cut and made by Alex Hall in London, following our house style.

Ernestin

What you described above sounds exactly like MTM to me. I don’t see why one would use a very expensive MTM “bespoke”, when you can buy real bespoke at the same price. Moggs bespoke prices seem to be even higher than what some of the real tailors in Germany charge. I just don’t see the advantage of this system. One might like the style of Mogg, but his stuff doesn’t seem to fit very well. I’m just a layman but the sleeves of his suits don’t look right. Ans the overall fit looks often off too. I think bad balance is the right term?

teekay

Most would say that bespoke entails having a pattern made for you and several fittings. That is what Max Mogg offers as his bespoke option. Some would argue that bespoke is only true bespoke if the tailor and only the tailor measures you and works on the suit. Which I somewhat agree with. But we can’t argue that this offering is not a level above typical mtm. Paolo Martorano also works like this if I remember correctly and the same argument could be had.

teekay

True that! And from what I’ve seen from the few results of bespoke Max Mogg, it does seem to work very well for them.

Mick

V. Odd, indeed.

Ernestin

He’s no tailor, as far as I know. Therefore it would be odd to find him in an article about bespoke tailors. He offers MTM.

Kenneth

Good evening..good article..informative

Ernestin

Nice summary of Germany’s bespoke tailors! But I agree with one of the other comments. Sven Krolczik is definitely missing in this list. His tailoring is outstanding.

Bernhard Roetzel

I will visit him soon.

Max Alexander

What a fantastic and very detailed roundup! I’m happy to see there are so many working there.

Alfred N

Thank you very much, this is superb. I get the impression German tailoring (sadly like many other elements of German culture) is significantly underrated in the Anglosphere. I’m curious, does Bernhard (or anyone else) have any experience with, or views of, Egon Brandstetter in Berlin?

Bernhard Roetzel

Egon Brandstetter is allegedly a good tailor but I don’t have any personal experience with him nor do I know anyone who has.

Jan

This is an interesting point as I was wondering about the inclusion criteria myself.
Wouldn’t »The German tailors I have tried and can recommend« be a more appropriate headline? Just to be fair towards tailors such as Egon Brandstetter, Sven Krolczik, and others?

Alfred N

Thanks Bernhard.

Marten

Thank you for this excellent insight into German tailoring! Scanning Instagram for German ‘bespoke’ tailors, I somehow do come across quite an amount of glued and or machine padded interfacings and collars. Interestingly, previously mentioned Sven Krolczik seems to be a pleasant exception here. His work is stellar! I seriously wonder why he is missing in this collection.

Bernhard Roetzel

Thanks for your comment. The tailors portrayed her all tailor their bespoke clothes by hand in the traditional way.

teekay

Sadly we all know that fake offerings of bespoke under the umbrella of poorly made mtm is especially prevalent in Germany. There are few mtm offers that don’t call their “Maßkonfektion” (mtm) “maßgeschneidert”.

Marten

You’re right, I myself once fell into this trap. Maybe thats the reason I am so cautious now. But even among the bespoke tailors listed here I do find machine padded collars, (one even padded the lapels by machine) and partially glued interfacings. Its all there public in their Insta profiles. I think this shows ‘tailoring by hand in the traditional way” is a rather broad term. Furthermore, this makes it even more difficult to identify proper craftsmenship – at least for us enthusiasts. It would be interesting to know why some tailors like Sven Krolzik insist on so much handwork – while others dont. Lets hope its not simply because its faster and / or increasing profit.

Otto Nguyen

I always on the hunt for Germany bespoke tailoring but never dig deep enough where I need to look but, with this refined article now I able to go far beyond that, all I need to say is I am enchanted. Thank you Mr. Crompton and Mr. Roetzel.

Kent

It’s great that Bernhard has taken the time and trouble to respond to so many comments above. I look forward to reading more articles from him on PS.

Bernhard Roetzel

I am happy to reply to the comments because they show how interested the readers are.

DS

I have bespoke suits from two German tailors not listed here. One is leaning towards a softer style, the other is quite structured. Both consult me without persuading, both follow mutual agreements (style, timelines, prices, etc.), both have attention to detail and know a thing or two about classic style and finally both make tailoring that is an immense pleasure to wear. That is basically everything I could ask for and that kind of reliability is what us German customers want I suppose.
If you ask me, only the most astute experts will know the difference to Savile Row or Neapolitan tailoring.

Christian

It would be great if you could tell us the names of the two tailors.

DS

I don‘t want to advertise those two (one is Beckert the other Hoofs), my point is rather: know your style and go to your local bespoke tailor and develop a relationship with her/him. After becoming a ‚Meister‘ through the German apprenticeship system they will all know their trade.

teekay

Thanks for the article! For everyone else that would rather have an Italian or English suit there are quite a few (affordable) traveling tailors available in Germany. I’m not sure how much experience you’ve had with those, Bernhard, but if you’ve seen a few, would you be willing to share those in the future as well?

teekay

Oh and as a follow up. It would be ncie to have a list of the shoemakers you’ve visited in Germany (and Austria) in the past.

David

Both informative and valuable as a contribution to the information bank. A lot of coverage of Italian and Spanish tailors and shoemakers, something of vacuum for German and East European craftsmen.

Ben Bernsch.

Thank you for the great article. Is there a reason why Egon Brandstetter is not listed? I have only read/heard very good things about him so far. And does Sicking also do MTM or shirts?

Chrisstopher

Thank you for this wonderful article. How was the fitting with Stefan Sicking? Does he do everything by hand and does he also offer shirts? Are German Taylor busy with appointments or can you always get a time slot? Thank you very much 

Bernhard Roetzel

Stefan Sicking works by hand. Some German tailors are very busy and you must expect to wait for months for an appointment but generall speaking most are eager to make a quick first fitting

Chrisstopher

Thank you for your answer.

Ali

nice post! There is this tailor once voxsartoria posted abt
his website. I found his works excelent from pictures but i wished there were more of his work.

Ernest

What about Egon Brandstetter? I’m rather surprised that he’s not part of this list, especially when he has an extensive experience crafting bespoke suits.

Matthias Rollmann

Dear Bernhardt,
nice article.
Sadly missing Sandro Dühnforth, Hamburg; Sven Krolczyck, Kassel; Eva Schönherr, Fulda; Egon Brandstetter, Berlin; Josef Rottensteiner, Kreuth; Corinna Bennecker, Frankfurt.
The young German tailor scene is very active and alive. There is more to it than meets the eye!
Best regards from BXL
Matthias Rollmann