Corneliani

Corneliani was established in Mantua, Italy, in 1958 by brothers Claudio Corneliani and Carlalberto Corneliani. Its roots extend to their father Alfredo Corneliani, who made raincoats and outerwear in the 1930s. The brothers built on that family background to develop a company focused on men’s tailored clothing.

The suit became the center of the wardrobe, with attention paid to fabric and the relationship between construction and comfort. Corneliani’s ready-to-wear and made-to-measure services offer different routes to the same idea of dressing, in which the shape of a jacket and its feel on the body matter as much as its formal appearance.

The collections have expanded to include knitwear and casual separates, allowing the house’s approach to tailoring to inform a broader way of getting dressed. A soft jacket can work with an open collar, while outerwear provides a connection to the family’s earliest business. The result is a wardrobe that accommodates leisure as well as professional life.

Sergio Corneliani directed the house’s creative work from 1990 to 2016. Stefano Gaudioso Tramonte subsequently took on the position of style director, guiding its design vocabulary into a more varied menswear offering. Mantua remains the company’s operational home, tying an international luxury business to the place where its formal tailoring identity took shape.