How the World’s Oldest Fabric Mill Is Helping Modern Men Suit Up

“It seems like yesterday,” says Francesco Barberis Canonico, as he reflects on joining the family business back in 1998. But the company where he began as a junior salesman and rose to the title of creative director today is no average family firm. It’s Vitale Barberis Canonico, the Italian textile mill that can trace its earliest recorded sale of wool to 1663 (to the Duke of Savoy, no less) and remains family-operated 13 generations later. Read more at Robb Report.