Italy · Tailoring · Rarefied
Cesare Attolini
Casalnuovo di Napoli, Italy — founded 1930
The Attolini workshop outside Naples still cuts by hand and sews the most visible seams by hand as well, which is why the jackets move with the body instead of resisting it.
Nothing about the house is written on the garment. The signatures are structural: the boat-shaped breast pocket, the shirt-like shoulder, and a lapel that rolls rather than folds.
The tell
The tell is the breast pocket: a barchetta curved like a small boat, cut freehand without a template, so no two jackets carry quite the same line.
Signature pieces
- Unlined wool-silk sport coat
- Hand-sewn two-button suit
- Cashmere overcoat
At a glance
- Founded
- 1930
- Base
- Casalnuovo di Napoli, Italy
- Price tier
- ●●● Rarefied
- Categories
- Tailoring