We cut twice a year on the first floor of Via Baccarini 14. Forty of a piece, never more, and when the lot runs out the piece is withdrawn.
Every garment is filed twice: the plate — the whole figure, cropped four by five — and the sliver, a band of the same cloth run the full width of the page. The numbers live in the rule between them, never on the picture. SAVIO takes seven weeks from the measure; two of those are the press.
Prices run from €190 for the scarf to €1,240 for the coat. Nothing is discounted at the end of a season, because nothing is made to be left over.
Two cuttings a year, numbered. Taglio 09 is twenty-four pieces in six cloths, measured against the three lots we bought in November — 54, 61 and 48 metres. When a lot ends the piece comes off the list and does not come back.
Four steps, seven weeks, one pair of hands at the cutting table.
Fourteen points, forty minutes, standing. We write them on a card and keep the card; the second garment takes half as long.
A calico of the whole thing, pinned on you in week two. It is ugly and it is the only way to find a shoulder that sits wrong.
Single ply, by hand, against the nap. A coat eats 3.4 metres and we will tell you how much of the lot is left afterwards.
Three hours under the iron, in stages, with a damp cloth. This is the part nobody photographs and the part that shows.
Eighteen measure slots go out before the cut, six of them still open. We write twice a year and never otherwise.