Custom Leather Jackets, Bags and Shoes: Inside the Jennifer Tattanelli Atelier 

Jennifer Tattanelli is a Florence-based luxury leather house offering fully bespoke, made-to-order jackets, handbags, and shoes, all designed and crafted through a unified atelier. It is among the very few leather maisons anywhere where a client can commission custom leather jackets, custom handbags and bespoke shoes from the same creative hand, rather than visiting a separate specialist for each. 

That combination is rare enough to be worth explaining on its own: one atelier, several product categories, one point of view. Whether you want a jacket cut to your exact measurements, a bag sized around the way you really live, or a pair of shoes built for your foot alone, the conversation starts in the same place, and the pieces that come out of it are made to belong together. 

What makes custom leather different at Jennifer Tattanelli 

Most leather ateliers specialize. A jacket maker makes jackets. A bottega focuses on bags. A calzoleria is built around shoes. Few, if any, do all three as part of one coordinated bespoke practice. 

At Jennifer Tattanelli, a client can commission a leather jacket, a handbag, and a pair of shoes as a single considered wardrobe: the same leather, the same hardware language, the same design sensibility carried across categories that are almost always treated separately. For clients who care about how pieces relate to each other, not just how each one looks on its own, that continuity is the point. 

The house's roots trace back to Piazza Pitti in Florence, where Jennifer's father, Giorgio, ran the original Casini Firenze leather atelier, a name still honored today. The Jennifer Tattanelli brand as it exists now was a natural evolution from the family business, with Jennifer Tattanelli herself as creative director and designer, carrying the family's leatherworking tradition forward into a bespoke house with its own identity. 

It remains, in practice, a family business: Jennifer leads design and merchandising, while her husband Giulio Brancatelli, who brings prior experience scaling an international luxury brand such as Bottega Veneta, runs the business side as CEO. That combination of hands-on creative heritage and global business experience shapes how the atelier operates today. 

Day to day, personalization at Jennifer Tattanelli works on three levels. Made to Order lets you reorder a piece you love exactly as it is. Custom Made starts from an existing model and lets you choose the leather, the color and a personal touch. Bespoke, the most exclusive service, is available for men's and women's leather jackets, bags and shoes, and defines every detail together with you, from proportions and functionality to materials and finishes. 

Custom leather jackets 

A custom leather jacket starts with the silhouette: a biker, a bomber, a blazer, a long coat. From there, the cut is shaped around the client's measurements and around how the jacket will really be worn, over a shirt in town or over heavy knitwear on a cold weekend. Then come the choices that make it personal: the leather, from soft nappa to full grain pieno fiore and suede, the color, the lining, the hardware, the pockets. 

Reversible jackets, one of the house's signatures, can be commissioned too, with two finishes and two colors in a single piece. Clients who prefer to start from a design they already know can begin from the women's leather jackets or the men's leather jackets in the collection and change only what matters to them, while a fully bespoke leather jacket is drawn from scratch. 

Custom handbags 

A custom handbag is designed around a life rather than a season. The starting point is practical: what it needs to carry, how it will be worn, by hand, on the shoulder or crossbody, and how much structure it should have. Then come the leather, the weave, the color, the lining and the hardware. Woven intrecciato, nappa, suede and full grain are all part of the vocabulary, and the same leather and hardware can be carried over from a jacket or a pair of shoes. Many clients start from an existing model among the women's handbags and adapt it; others commission a custom leather bag that exists nowhere else. 

Bespoke shoes 

Bespoke shoes are where Italian craft is at its most precise. A bespoke pair is built around one person's foot: measurements first, then the last, the shape, the heel height, the leather and the finish. For men, that can mean a loafer, a lace-up or a driving shoe; for women, a ballet flat, a pump or an ankle boot that fits like nothing off the shelf ever will. 

Not every commission needs to start from zero. For women, custom-made shoes often begin from an existing model in the women's shoes collection, reworked in a new leather or color. A fully bespoke pair goes further, and is the natural choice for anyone who has never found a shoe that fits perfectly. 

How a custom commission works: from consultation to finished piece 

A bespoke commission at Jennifer Tattanelli starts the way most serious made-to-order work does: with a conversation, not a catalog. A client meets with the atelier, in Florence or at one of the brand's other locations, to discuss what they're actually commissioning: a jacket cut a particular way, a handbag sized and structured around how it will really be used, a pair of shoes built for a specific last and finish. 

From there, the process moves through leather selection, construction, and fitting, with the same Italian worksmanship applied whether the commission is a single item or a coordinated set across all three categories. Because jackets, bags, and shoes are designed under one roof, a multi-piece commission is handled as one project from the start. 

For a Custom Made piece, the path is simpler and follows four steps: choose the model, discover the leather, define the color and add a personal touch. For a bespoke commission, it helps to arrive with references: photos of pieces you love, the clothes you plan to wear it with, or simply the occasion it's for. The more the atelier knows about your life, the better the piece will fit into it. 

Where to book a consultation 

Jennifer Tattanelli's bespoke service is available through three physical locations, each reflecting a different chapter of the brand's story: 

• Florence: the atelier's home city, in Piazza Pitti, a few steps away from the Ponte Vecchio. 
• Palm Beach, on Worth Avenue: where you can find two Jennifer Tattanelli ateliers, one of which is dedicated exclusively to shoes with over 400 styles available, and the newly opened Casini Firenze store. 
• Westhampton Beach, in the Hamptons: the brand's first atelier location in the United States. 

Casini Firenze by the Beach is the newest chapter, dedicated entirely to bespoke menswear. The name is a deliberate homage, a direct tribute to Giorgio's original Casini Firenze atelier in Florence's Piazza Pitti, carried forward into a space built specifically around men's leather jackets, bags, and shoes. Rather than opening under the Jennifer Tattanelli name alone, the house chose to bring back the family name that started it all: a way of marking Worth Avenue's growing importance to the brand while pointing directly back to where the craftsmanship began. A small homage to Jennifer's father, honoring a promise she made when she was only 18. 

Each location offers direct access to the bespoke consultation process in addition to the off-the-shelf retail experience, and you can request an appointment in advance so that Jennifer or one of her stylists can dedicate the time a commission deserves. For anyone who has struggled to find a single leather jacket, bag, or pair of shoes made exactly to their own specification, let alone all three together, the Jennifer Tattanelli atelier is built around exactly that request. 

Frequently asked questions 

Can I commission a matching jacket, bag, and pair of shoes? 

Yes. This is what sets Jennifer Tattanelli apart: all three categories are produced through the same atelier, so a coordinated, multi-piece commission is a single unified process rather than separate orders from different specialists. 

Where are Jennifer Tattanelli's ateliers located? 

Florence, Italy; Palm Beach, Florida (Worth Avenue, including the Casini Firenze menswear location); and Westhampton Beach, New York (open from Memorial Day through Labor Day). 

Is Casini Firenze a different brand from Jennifer Tattanelli? 

No. Casini Firenze is Jennifer Tattanelli's dedicated menswear address on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach: part of the same house, with the same bespoke leather craftsmanship, built specifically around men's jackets, bags, and shoes. 

Why does Jennifer Tattanelli stay a small company? 

Because full bespoke customization across three leather categories depends on it. Jennifer Tattanelli describes itself as a limited edition company, and that's a deliberate choice, not a constraint: a house that scaled significantly would sooner or later have to choose between growth and the level of individual attention bespoke commissioning requires. For clients, that trade-off shows up directly in the process, with closer collaboration on each commission and a consistency of worksmasnship that's harder to hold onto at a much larger scale. 

How long does a custom leather commission take? 

It depends on the service and on the piece. Made to Order and Custom Made pieces start from an existing pattern, so they're usually the quickest route. A fully bespoke jacket, bag or pair of shoes takes longer, because the pattern or last is created from scratch and fittings may be needed. The atelier confirms the timing during the consultation, once the design and the leather are defined. 

What's the difference between bespoke and custom-made? 

Bespoke means a piece designed and built around one client's specific choices in leather, fit, and detail, rather than selected from a fixed collection; the term comes from tailoring, where a bespoke suit is cut from a pattern drafted for one person. Custom-made starts from one of the house's existing creations and changes only the color or the materials. Made to measure, available on selected products, sits in between: an existing pattern adjusted to your measurements.