Clothing

Right from its outset in 2015, Ripa Ripa addressed modern gentlemen looking for elegant and well-crafted swim trunks. Co-founder Anna Laura Hoefer explains their journey of creating made in Italy shorts, inspired by the Mediterranean way of living and 1960s design patterns.

Unhappy with how difficult it was to find good, timeless menswear in their hometown Zurich, Sebastian Vadasz and his business partners opened their concept store. Then, as one thing often leads to another, they launched a proprietary brand: Pelikamo. Here’s their story.

Uncommon Man is a brand founded in Dallas, TX in 2017. Founder Kile Shiels shares with us his brand’s mission to let men be comfortable in their clothing, have confidence and find value in how they dress for not just a single occasion, but from sun up to sun down.

Tela Bluwas born in Turin in 2017. It’s been one of the first brands in Italy founded to cut the middlemen and reduce costs on the customer’s side: their approach allows to drop price tags up to 50%. Founder Edoardo Danna talks about the brand in this interview.

Swedish brand Berkeley Shirts was founded acknowledging the shift towards casualness in menswear, to establish a high-quality shirtmaking company reflecting this contemporary tendency. In this episode of Brand Talks, the company’s founder Joel Strömberg shares his philosophy.