Made-to-measure tailoring, Lausanne
Made for people whose job is to be impeccable.
Serimont
Switzerland is where we sit with you. It is not where we stop looking.
We build made-to-measure suits for clients in Europe, from a network we put together ourselves: cloth chosen at its source, production partners we deal with directly, and tailoring expertise in Hong Kong.
You meet us in Lausanne. Everything before that, from the fibre to the cloth to the making, is work we have already done, so that what reaches you is a garment cut to one person and priced against what it costs to make.
Collection
Cut for the room you walk into.
Suits, jackets, trousers and shirting, made to your measurements. No two orders are identical, so nothing here is a catalogue number.
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Suits
Single or double-breasted, in worsted for the working week and in linen for the months a wool suit punishes you. Two-piece unless you ask for the waistcoat.
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Jackets and trousers
Separates cut to be worn apart: a soft jacket that survives a flight, trousers with the leg and the break decided on you rather than on a chart.
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Shirting
Collar, cuff and placket chosen against the jacket they will sit under, in cotton weights that still hold a line at the end of a long day.
Made to your measurements, not to a size chart.
Cloth, cut, lapel, lining, buttons and finish are decided in the consultation. Everything after that is fitting.
The world behind the suit
Every part of a suit is made somewhere. We will tell you which part is made where.
Nothing here is assembled by accident. Each origin was chosen for one reason, and each one is named.
1Australia
Wool
A fibre selected for how it holds a shape and how it behaves across a long working day.
2France
Linen
Open weave and a dry hand, for heat and for the way it creases honestly rather than badly.
3Italy
Cashmere blends
Blended into cloth for weight, softness and warmth through the colder half of the year.
4Guangming
Labels and production
Selected labels, components and production partners, worked with directly rather than through agents.
5Hong Kong
Tailoring
Where garments are made up and refined. A production capability, not a place we receive clients.
6Switzerland
Your side of it
Consultation, cloth, measurement, fittings and delivery, in Lausanne, with the people you met.
Why the price sits where it does
A traditional house buys through agents, holds stock, carries a boutique network and prices the whole apparatus into the garment. We carry none of that. The saving is structural, and it goes into cloth and fit instead of into margin.
Specific cloth references, compositions and weights are confirmed with you at consultation, against what is actually available that season.
How it is made
Six stages, in order, and you are present for four of them.
From the first conversation to the finished garment, usually over several weeks.
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Consultation
What the garment is for. How you work, where you travel, how long the days run.
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Measure
Measurements taken, and posture and proportion assessed - the part a size chart cannot do.
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Selection
Cloth, weight, colour, construction, lapel, lining and finish, chosen against the brief.
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Tailoring
The garment is cut and made up through our tailoring network.
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Fitting
Tried on, marked and corrected. Balance, shoulder, waist and length are settled here.
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Delivery
Pressed, finished and handed over. Later adjustments are part of the arrangement.
Materials
The cloth decides more than the cut does.
A good cut in the wrong cloth fails by the afternoon. Fibre first, then weight, then colour.
A suit is judged in the first four seconds and worn for the next ten years.
Most of an appointment is spent on how you actually work, on the travel, the room and the length of the day, because that is what decides the cloth and the cut.
Appointment
Your suit begins with a conversation.
One client at a time, by appointment. There is no showroom floor to walk and nothing to be sold off a rail.
Where
Lausanne
Switzerland
In-person appointments are currently available in Lausanne only, where our cloth, measuring and fitting service are based.
What the visit covers
- Consultation - what the garment is for and how you work
- Cloth in hand, chosen against the brief
- Measurements, posture and proportion
- Style guidance on cut, lapel, lining and finish
- Fitting when the garment is ready
Booking sends a request. We confirm the time by email before anything is held.
If you cannot come to Lausanne
Remote tailoring
An order can be completed without a visit. You send measurements taken to our instructions, choose cloth from what we send you, and we work through the brief by email or call.
It is the second-best version of this. Without a fitting in the room we cannot correct a garment on your body, which is the part that makes made-to-measure worth doing. If Lausanne is reachable, come to Lausanne.