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Brand · Italy

Isaia

Isaia is a Naples tailoring brand making soft, light jackets in bolder cloths and stronger colours than its neighbours, with a red coral lapel pin as its signature.

Isaia makes Neapolitan tailoring at Casalnuovo outside Naples. The house's cut is soft and light in the local manner, and its identity is more colourful than its neighbours': bolder cloths, stronger colours, and the red coral pin that has become its signature.

Naples, less restrained

Isaia works the same idiom as its neighbours (soft shoulder, light chest, high armhole) with a markedly more extrovert sense of colour and pattern. It is the Neapolitan house most likely to make a jacket in a cloth another house would consider unwearable.

The coral pin is a Neapolitan superstition made into a brand mark, which is a reasonable summary of the house's approach generally.

The construction

Neapolitan: a soft unpadded shoulder frequently with visible gathering, a light chest canvas, a high armhole, patch pockets and open quarters. Jackets are noticeably light in the hand and cut short by English standards.

The finishing is substantial rather than bespoke-level: pick stitching, hand-attached details, and a fair amount of machine work in the parts that do not show.

Colour as a house position

Isaia is the Neapolitan house most likely to weave a jacket in a cloth another maker would consider unwearable: strong blues, greens and rust, bold checks, and combinations that require some confidence. That is a genuine market position rather than a lapse of taste, and it is worth understanding before buying. A conservative wardrobe will find one Isaia jacket useful and three difficult.

At a glance

Production
Casalnuovo di Napoli
Character
Neapolitan construction, bolder colour and pattern
Signature
The red coral lapel pin
Founded
1957
City
Country

These are not quotations. Prices below are the most recent figures we could attribute to a source, shown in the currency they were published in.

WhatServicePrice TaxObservedBasis
Ready-to-wear suitAn indicative band, not a quotation. Bespoke entry prices normally exclude tax and cloth beyond the house bunch, and houses raise them without announcement. Ready To Wear €2,800–5,000 — September 2026 Estimated-Range
Il Sartoriale compilation from publicly reported figures
Bespoke prices normally exclude cloth beyond a house bunch, alterations after delivery and shipping. Confirm with the house before commissioning.
Last reviewed: September 2026 Report an error on this page