Marzoni

Coatings and cold-weather cloth

Marzoni is a suiting label rather than a mill with a village and a founding date, and we would rather tell you that than invent a history. The brand says its cloth is produced in Italy, and it reaches tailors through agents, including a representative in the United States.

What Marzoni is known for is its look books. Each season it issues hundreds of designs, and its strength is colour and pattern: checks, stripes and textures that give a commission somewhere to go beyond plain navy and grey. Custom tailors in the United States, Asia and Australia sell it at a mid-premium price.

Marzoni does not publish where its fibre is grown, which mills weave its cloth or any certifications, so we make no claims for it on that front.

We judge every cloth the same way, by how it behaves on the table and on the body, and Marzoni earned its place with one garment in particular. The Brown Street Revival Sweeping Coat is cut from a Marzoni wool and silk check. A long coat lives at the hem: the cloth has to swing when you walk and settle when you stop, with enough body to hold its line and enough softness to sit close at the collar. This one does both. The silk lifts the brown, and the check is scaled to read well over a calf-length coat.

Marzoni lengths sit in the rotating part of our cloth library, so the selection changes from season to season. The Brown Street Revival Sweeping Coat is made to measure in Sydney. If you are planning a coat or a patterned suit, ask what Marzoni cloth is in the current bunch at your fitting.