While in Berlin, I chose to drop by Egon Brandstetter, a young tailor from Austria. He has set up a shop at Chausseestraße 52.
I found the shop to be very modern. It has no brown furnitures, red carpets or other old features. Decor is simple, and rooms are bright thanks to large windows.
It is no coincidence, I suppose. Egon Brandstetter wants to make tailored clothing to our times. He has specialized in light weight fabrics in the 200 grams.
Many of these fabrics cannot take shrinking and moulding with the iron properly. Even if you get the shape right, you can hardly maintain it, when the garment comes in use. Instead you will have to rely on interlining and cut, Egon Brandstetter told me.
He also arranges the fitting process differently. Similar to what happens in the French haute couture tradition, he makes a try-on copy of the suit in muslin, which he afterwards utilises to adjust the pattern. Then he starts cutting the real suit, which he will fit usually only once before finishing the suit.
The price for a two-piece suit is 2.500 euro including cloth.
Source: The Journal of Style