Canali grows 10% — and shows the 200 steps behind one blazer

Canali, the family-owned tailoring house from Lombardy, is having a strong year. Speaking to Italy’s MF Fashion on 4 November, president and CEO Stefano Canali said sales were up 10% over the first nine months of 2026, on annual revenue of about €205 million.

America first

The United States has been Canali’s main market for thirty years, and together with Canada it now brings in roughly half of the brand’s sales. More than 90% of everything Canali sells goes abroad — yet almost everything is still made in Italy, by around 950 of its 1,400 staff.

200 steps to one blazer

The company’s travelling exhibition, Under the Surface – Shaping the Unseen, explores the roughly 200 steps it takes to make a single Canali blazer. After Beijing and New York, it opens in Milan on 11 November, then travels to Mumbai. Artists from Italy, the US, China and India each contributed a work, with film and photography by Yuri Ancarani tying them together. Actor Ethan Hawke fronts the autumn-winter campaign.

What this means when you buy a jacket

You do not need a €2,000 blazer to benefit from what the Italians know. When you try on any jacket, check:

• Shoulders first. The seam should end where your shoulder ends. Shoulders are the hardest part to alter.
• The collar should sit flat against your shirt collar, with no gap at the back of your neck.
• Sleeves should show about a centimetre of shirt cuff.
• Buttoned, it should not pull into an X across your stomach.

Then finish the look properly. A well-cut jacket deserves polished shoes — see our Loresho Tooled Oxford and Westlands Grain Cap-Toe, both KES 5,500 this Black November.

Source: MF Fashion — Canali rilancia dagli Usa (in Italian)