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Erina works on the assembly of the jacket. «Attaching the sleeves is not assembling two parts but creating two parts. Each sleeve is a relationship between me, the jacket, and the machine. The peculiarity lies in the speed, or rather in the slowness, of giving the jacket wearability and harmony at the lap. Each must find their own method of sewing. The rules are not enough, because you are confronted with something that varies, because it is made by people. These jackets become creatures; they are not objects. After twenty-four years, I still cannot say I know how to sew the sleeves. Every day, we must question ourselves».
Agnes takes care of the tucking of the garments. She is the first person to work on the jacket and says that it is also a matter of listening. «I have to hear the machine: there is a particular sound it makes when it sews well. If it does not make that sound, it means that something is wrong». There are over two hundred phases of work for a jacket, and if one of these is badly managed, it can cause defects. Each operation and seam determine a fit, a characteristic. «The time we want to devote to training a good seamstress or skilled ironer can go up to over a year» — says Dino, the manager who runs the company’s three production units in the Marche region. He was hired in 1993 to manage the automatic cuts section. «Creating a suit or a jacket is like making pieces of anatomy».
«Some might think that making jackets by hand means not using sewing machines».
Stefano Canali belongs to the third generation at the helm of the company. The founder, Giovanni Canali, was his grandfather.
. Stefano. A brand that was called Cafra at the time — Canali Fratelli — was a sixth ‘sister’ with whom he did not always get along:
