Italy · Tailoring · Rarefied
Kiton
Arzano, Italy — founded 1968
Kiton trains its own tailors in Arzano and counts the hours by hand-stitch rather than by machine pass. A jacket leaves the workshop after roughly twenty-five hours of hand work.
The house buys the rarest fibres it can find and then does as little as possible to them: light canvas, no padding, and a lining cut to let the cloth hang on its own weight.
The tell
The tell is the shoulder: spalla camicia, gathered by hand into the sleevehead with no padding at all, so the seam ripples very slightly when the arm drops.
Signature pieces
- Hand-sewn wool suit
- Vicuna overcoat
- Cashmere sport coat
At a glance
- Founded
- 1968
- Base
- Arzano, Italy
- Price tier
- ●●● Rarefied
- Categories
- Tailoring