After just retuning from a trip to Italy, there is not much left to choose from in the Italian hat market. Borsalino is changing and not for the good. Cervo is now closed until they reorganize. This leaves just Panizza and Guerra as the main manufacturers. It is a shame what has happened to the...
I dont think there will be any major news before Christmas. You never know though what can happen. As long as a certain person is not there any more, i will be very happy.
This did not happen overnight. Years of mismanagement and trying to be another big italian brand like Gucci and Prada is what started the problems. The current CEO of the company hurt a lot of people in the past year and a half by doing things his way. Lets hope that a new owner will change...
The cause of this problem is due to the mismanagement of the company by the Marenco and Gallo family. They basicaly took all of the money out of the company and left them with nothing. The new director of the company Marco Moccia decided to change everything and has hurt many people in the...
The Barbisio name was licenced to be made in the USA during the late 1980's by Bollman and also in Columbia SA by Puerto Fino Hats. You can easily tell the differences between the Italian version and the other two.
I doubt that you could buy these machines anymore. the only place that sells machinery today is in Germany . They are called Bonner. They should have a website.
The Borsalino company that we all new and dealt with is sadly no more. With the new ownership , the situation is very different now . Instead of being known as a hat company , the new owners are treating it as a fashion company that produces hats. Everything is being streamlined .
There will...
That Columbo is a very nice hat .
The Como in taupe (monlov) is a very neutral color that goes with just about everything. We do stock the hat in that color.
Sorry for not posting this earlier. Our store on 13th ave was destroyed completely. We lost just about everything in the store including a beautiful antique hat collection that I had collected for over twenty five years.
We hope to rebuild . We have opened a temporary location in the...
Kleinhans was a famous department store in Buffalo NY . Its long gone. They sold a lot of Borsalino hats . I was able to email the grandaughter of the hat buyer years agothat ran the hat dept. She sent me a lot of interesting things that her family had .
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