Naples has the biggest concentration of high-end handmade menswear in the world. Although not so much for shoes, for tailoring and shirtmaking this is the motherlode, with hundreds of tailors in the city and surrounding ...

Everyone gets dressed in the morning. Most put no thought into it; a few put too much into it.  My approach, formed through nothing more than hazard and habit, is to do one of two things:  Pick out one piece that I rea...

There’s an interesting trunk show next week in London. Online stores Exquisite Trimmings and Monsieur Fox are combining to organise a show that will feature several of the brands they sell, plus some artisans.  Th...

Last month we had a book launch at the Brio menswear store in Beijing. It’s worth running through a few more details of the shop – because the stock is interesting, and because it is part of a pleasing trend in mor...

Zampa di Gallina (‘chicken feet’) is a menswear site set up recently specialising in Neapolitan makers. At least one of them has a connection to Naples, so it’s nice to have slightly more local retail, particular...

When a man has collected a few nice things, his thoughts turn to nice things to put things in. And of course it’s a good excuse to learn about how something else is made – in this case, bespoke jewellery boxes. The m...