Bespoke tailor · Paris · Founded 1959
Camps de Luca
Camps de Luca is a Paris tailor known for fine hand sewing and a signature lapel where collar and lapel meet in a mouth-like notch.
Camps de Luca is the second of the two defining Parisian bespoke houses. Founded by a Spanish cutter and an Italian tailor, it is known for exceptional hand finishing and for the fishmouth lapel notch (a notch cut so the collar and lapel interlock like a mouth), which is its signature.
Finishing above everything
Camps de Luca's reputation rests on how much is done by hand and how well: the house is repeatedly cited by tailors as the standard for finishing, including in places nobody will ever look.
The fishmouth notch is the visible signature. It is technically difficult (the two edges must interlock exactly), and it is the kind of detail that exists to prove a workshop can do it.
The finishing, specifically
Hand-worked buttonholes throughout, a hand-attached collar, hand-set sleeves, hand-finished internal seams and pockets, and a fishmouth lapel notch cut so the collar and lapel interlock precisely. Very little of the coat is machine-sewn.
The fishmouth is the identifying detail and is genuinely difficult: the two edges must meet exactly along a curved line, and any error is on the most visible part of the garment.
The silhouette
Sharper and slightly more angular than Cifonelli, with a strongly built shoulder and a very defined waist. The two houses are frequently discussed together and the difference is real: Cifonelli rounds, Camps de Luca cuts.
Against Cifonelli
The two Parisian houses are constantly compared and the difference is one of temperament. Cifonelli rounds and sculpts: the shoulder rolls, the line curves. Camps de Luca cuts sharper: a more angular shoulder, a more defined waist, a coat with edges.
Both are at the top of the European price range and both require a long wait. A customer should look at finished coats from each before choosing, because the decision is aesthetic rather than technical.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two-piece bespoke suitAn indicative band, not a quotation. Bespoke entry prices normally exclude tax and cloth beyond the house bunch, and houses raise them without announcement. | Bespoke | €11,000–17,000 | 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.
Picture credits 2
- An illustration of the house's recorded cut: roped shoulder, full canvas chest, sharp, strongly built shoulder, defined waist. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An illustration of the house's recorded cut: roped shoulder, full canvas chest, sculpted shoulder, very clean close chest, high waist. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art