Finnish clothing company Schoffa opened it’s first store in 2006. Since then they’re business has been growing all the time and at the moment Schoffa has two brick and mortar stores in Helsinki (Pohjoisesplanadi 33 @ Galleria Esplanad & Unioninkatu 27) and one in Tallinn they opened nearly a year ago (Foorum keskus Narva Mnt 5). In addition they have a webstore to serve clients from all over the world. From the very beginning, the idea behind the concept has been to create fitted shirts for conscious customers, to be an expert of shirts as said by themselves. As said, the main product Schoffa offers is shirts. First and foremost made-to-measure shirts but nowadays ready to wear-shirts as well. All the shirts (mtm and rtw) are...
Three weeks ago during the mtm-days @ Fere I met Tommaso and Davide of ISAIA. A few words and pictures of that day… One of the reasons for my visit was to make an order for a new shirt. So the first thing I did was going through a bunch of fabrics. As normally most of my shirts are light blue or plain white, I decided to look for something a bit bolder. Believe me, not an easy task to make up your mind… checks x checks x checks… Quality points of Isaia mtm-shirts: - Hand made buttonholes - Buttons hand sewn with a coral shape - Armhole stitched and basted by hand - Hand sewn mouche used as a little reinforcement -...
“Look, listen, learn” Almost four months ago, in the middle of the summer I was for the first time visiting Florence, first time visiting Pitti Uomo. During my visit I got the chance to meet one of the most personal and luminous person in the industry, Mr. Ignatius Joseph. It was really a pleasure to meet this fine gentleman whose style, charisma and friendliness are absolutely something to learn from. Mr. Joseph was kind enough to invite us (me and Anton) to see his newest collection and to discuss about it with a cup of coffee. Mr. Joseph who is originally from Sri Lanka, has lived most of his life in Europe and (when not traveling around the globe) is at...
How to know what color goes with what. And what color it compliments it with. How to use colors in a right way? A while ago I read a text on Put This On which handled the questions above. Because I feel Derek in that article pretty much brought up all the basic points there is to say about combining colors, I decided to share his text with you. I advise you to read also the articles that are linked to the text. You can find a link to the original text from below. Coordinating colors "Deciding on whether any particular combination of colors in an ensemble works or not is probably best left to on-the-spot judgment. Style is, after all,...
As I mentioned about a month ago in my post about the top10 essentials for the fall, chukka boots are absolutely one of the most versatile pair of shoes there is. When you wanna go casual, chukkas are perfect match for jeans or cargo pants. Then just complete the look with a sweater & a field jacket and you're more than ready to go. Secondly, if you need a pair to match with your flannel trousers and blazer (especially on a rainy day), suede chukka boots are still the right answer. And thirdly, even if you wanna take the golden mean, you can keep your chukka boots on, just change the blazer (or the sweater and field jacket) to...
