Kleidung & Accessoires

The typical Kiton garment takes upwards of 25 hours to produce and is likely to be overseen by 150 people. Everything is done with traditional tools - chalk, scissors, needles and thread - and rather than repeating one process ad infinitum, the brand's staff take up different stations depending on the day, so they develop true expertise by working on a wide variety of tasks and processes. Finding such multi-skilled tailors in the first place is not easy in the modern world, which is why, in 2001, Kiton established its own tailoring school. There, an elite selection of young recruits train for three years until the brand's production manager judges them to be capable of completing about 50 per cent of the processes required to make a jacket. Many of the graduates then go on to work at the c.