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The House

Our Story

Founded 2012

A house built around the master tailors.

Centi Atelier began in 2012 with a single conviction: that a Made-to-Measure suit should fit perfectly, return rarely, and be made by hands that have been at the same bench for two decades. Fourteen years on, we are still organized around that conviction. Two ateliers. Two hundred craftspeople. Ten master tailors. Thirty-three certified mills. And a 0.5% return rate — the most demanding number in the industry, and the one we care about most.

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2012 — the founding

Philosophy

Quiet tailoring — never loud, never rushed.

Loud tailoring announces itself: oversized lapels, contrast stitching, a logo visible from across the room. Quiet tailoring does not. The cut sits on the shoulder. The drape falls cleanly. The buttonhole is precise. The client looks like himself, only better. This is the house we built — and the only house we know how to build.

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Two workshops, nine studios

Scale

Two ateliers, nine boutiques, two hundred hands.

Our two ateliers in China are the production heart of the house. Nine retail boutiques across the country serve our direct clients. Two hundred craftspeople — ten of them master tailors with twenty-plus years of experience — touch every order. The atelier produces over 30,000 suits a year. We are large enough to support our partners around the world, and small enough that every order is signed off by a master tailor before it leaves the bench.

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Where we are today