Shirtmaker · Naples
Anna Matuozzo
Anna Matuozzo is a Naples shirtmaker, now run by the founder's daughters, whose custom shirts have unusually much hand sewing, including collars, sleeves and buttonholes.
Anna Matuozzo is a Naples bespoke shirtmaker, now run by her daughters, making shirts with an unusually high proportion of hand sewing, including hand-attached collars, hand-set sleeves and hand-sewn buttonholes. It is among the most respected shirtmaking workshops in Italy.
Neapolitan shirtmaking
Naples treats a shirt the way it treats a jacket: soft, light, and assembled by hand wherever a hand does it better. The characteristic details are a soft unlined or lightly lined collar, a sleeve attached by hand with gathering at the shoulder (the shirt equivalent of spalla camicia), and buttonholes worked by hand. The result is a shirt that moves with the wearer rather than resisting him, which is the same argument the Neapolitan jacket makes.
The workshop
Small, family-run, and organised around hand sewing to a degree that limits output. Shirts are cut individually and much of the assembly is done by hand rather than machine.
The house takes orders in Naples and on a travel schedule, and a first commission normally involves a trial shirt and a minimum order.
What hand sewing actually buys
A hand-attached collar can be eased around the neck seam in a way a machine cannot, so it sits closer without gripping. A hand-set sleeve allows the ease to be placed where the arm moves. Hand-sewn buttonholes are denser and hold their shape. None of these is visible at conversational distance. All of them affect how the shirt behaves on a body, which is the honest case for them.
The record
What it costs
Prices across the site →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.
| What | Service | Price | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bespoke shirtAn indicative band, not a quotation. Bespoke entry prices normally exclude tax and cloth beyond the house bunch, and houses raise them without announcement. | Bespoke | €350–550 | September 2026 |
Where they travel
Find a maker who visits you →Trunk shows let a house take orders and hold fittings away from its own workshop. Dates move; treat this as the pattern, not a calendar, and confirm with the house.
Houses often considered alongside it
Grouped because they compete for the same commission or work in a comparable idiom: not a ranking, and not an equivalence.
01
D'Avino
D'Avino is a shirtmaker near Naples making small numbers of custom shirts, known above all for how many steps are sewn by hand.
02
Luca Avitabile
Luca Avitabile is a Naples shirtmaker who cuts each customer their own pattern and sews nearly everything by hand, mostly meeting clients in London and New York.
03
Charvet
The first shop in the world to make shirts to measure for whoever walked in, and still the reference.
04
G. Inglese
G. Inglese is a family shirtmaker in the small Puglia town of Ginosa, famous worldwide through specialist shops and online for heavily hand-sewn shirts.
05
Siniscalchi
Siniscalchi is a Milan shirtmaker making custom shirts that are cleaner and crisper than Naples shirts, with carefully built collars and a close fit.
Picture credits 6
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- Charvet store: Photograph · Racconish · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art