Cifonelli

When Karl Lagerfeld exclaimed, “I could recognise a Cifonelli shoulder from a distance of a hundred metres”, it was a nod to just one of the many distinctive details for which this celebrated Parisian atelier is renowned. “Our high armholes provide a slimfitting silhouette and the shoulder is built forward to give more mobility,” explains Lorenzo Cifonelli who, with his cousin Massimo, helms a tailoring house that was established in Rome before settling in Paris via a stint in London.

Hand-stitched and produced entirely in house, Cifonelli suits are, he says, “as comfortable as Italian ones and as flattering as English ones” – something