Bespoke tailor · Naples
Sartoria Ciardi
Sartoria Ciardi is a second-generation family tailor in Naples making soft jackets, and it takes many of its orders at traveling fittings held abroad.
Sartoria Ciardi is a family bespoke house in Naples, now in its second generation, making a soft Neapolitan coat and taking a substantial share of its orders at trunk shows abroad.
On the road
Ciardi is among the Neapolitan workshops that built an international clientele by travelling, which shapes the business as much as the cutting does. A house that takes most of its orders abroad organises its year around fitting cycles rather than around a walk-in shop.
For the customer the effect is a longer calendar: the commission moves at the speed of the visits.
The cut
Soft shoulder with pronounced gathering, light chest, high armhole, open quarters: Neapolitan without qualification. The house cuts slightly closer through the waist than some of its neighbours, which suits the younger international clientele it has built.
Handwork is extensive and visible: pick-stitched edges, hand-worked buttonholes and a shoulder that could not be produced on a machine.
The travelling business
A house that takes most of its orders abroad runs on a different rhythm from one with a shop. Fittings happen in blocks when the cutter is in town, so a commission started in March may not finish until autumn, and a problem found at a fitting costs a full cycle rather than a week.
The compensating advantage is real: a customer in a city with no comparable local tailor gets access to a Neapolitan cutter without flying to Naples.
A travelling workshop
Ciardi travels more than most Neapolitan houses, which changes what a commission involves: fittings happen in a hotel room in another country on a schedule set months ahead, and the number of fittings a customer can get is constrained by how often the house visits. That is the real trade-off of a trunk show and it is rarely stated.
It also means the house's work is visible in cities where Neapolitan tailoring otherwise arrives only as ready-to-wear.
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 | €3,800–6,000 | 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.
| City | Roughly | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| LondonDocumented as travelling here for fittings. Schedules change; confirm directly with the house. | — | — |
| New YorkDocumented as travelling here for fittings. Schedules change; confirm directly with the house. | — | — |
| TokyoDocumented as travelling here for fittings. Schedules change; confirm directly 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: shirt shoulder, light canvas chest, soft neapolitan. 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: natural shoulder, light canvas chest, soft neapolitan, restrained. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art