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Stefano Bemer
Stefano Bemer Warszawa 10.09Thu, Sep 10Dąbrowski & Góral
Stefano Bemer Poznań 11.09Fri, Sep 11Dąbrowski & Góral
Stefano Bemer
This is a rare opportunity to discover the world of the very finest Florentine shoemaking at close quarters — to view an extensive selection of handmade footwear, to understand the character of each individual model and to enter into a dialogue with a house for which elegance remains a form of culture.
An encounter with craftsmanship that goes far beyond a simple product presentation.
Our Atelier's Style - Neapolitan Tailoring
To say that we tailor in the Italian spirit is a bit like saying we like cars with a prancing horse in the logo — they're all great, but every one is entirely different.
The most important and also the most demanding part of Neapolitan tailoring is the shoulder. On most jackets you'll come across stiff, heavily padded shoulders, which are very characteristic of British and Roman tailoring.
This way of tailoring helps to disguise many tailoring shortcomings.
In Neapolitan tailoring, jacket shoulders are made without any padding! It takes a true magician to make a shoulder that is soft, rounded, and that still moulds to the body as it is worn.
A Neapolitan jacket has a high-cut armhole, which gives freedom of movement while preserving a light, elegant appearance. We set the sleeves by hand and, at the client's request, create a spalla camicia — which leaves grinze, the small, characteristic ripples at the shoulder seam.
A tailoring novice may view these as an imperfection, but devotees of the style appreciate the fine craftsmanship and understated beauty they bring. Whether the sleeve is set smoothly or features grinze, the central shoulder seam is angled towards the back. According to Neapolitan tailors, this helps to embrace the wearer's neck "comme l'abbraccio 'e n'amico" (like a friend's embrace).
Stefano Bemer
An encounter with craftsmanship that goes far beyond a simple product presentation.
This is a rare opportunity to discover the world of the very finest Florentine shoemaking at close quarters — to view an extensive selection of handmade footwear, to understand the character of each individual model and to enter into a dialogue with a house for which elegance remains a form of culture.
The owner himself, Tommaso Melani, is on hand throughout, guiding guests through the collection, answering questions and helping each visitor find the pieces closest to his own taste.
Stefano Bemer set out on his path in 1983 with the ambition of creating the perfect Italian shoe. He was self-taught: he began with shoe repairs, then built his craft through courses, practice and his own research, until he arrived at a method that in time became the signature of the house.
The house's official narrative, however, is not about "attaining perfection" but about the ceaseless pursuit of it — which is why the Stefano Bemer story is told as a continuation of its founder's vision rather than a closed chapter.
For Stefano Bemer, Florence is not merely a place of production but the very source of its aesthetic. The house is clear that its identity grows out of the spirit of the city: its harmony, its humanist culture, its love of proportion and of the beauty hidden in the detail. That way of thinking translates directly into the house style — refined but never insistent; elegant, yet free of ostentation. It is no accident that the atelier is housed today in a historic chapel in Florence's Oltrarno district, binding its present-day work still more closely to the local heritage of craftsmanship.
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