Cotonificio Albini - Shirting supplier to Kiton, Brioni, Zegna, Ford, RLPL...and many more

[Aquafortis]

I thought this was interesting enough to repost an older thread about this Italian shirting supplier who's fabrics are sourced by many different lines/makers.
http://www.styleforum.net/t/95348/cotonificio-albini#post_8720348

Here is a direct link to a recent Forbes article about the Albini group:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/declane...tom-ford-saint-laurent-and-zara/#3ebcd39e26f7

Given how many quality lines are using their fabrics, and aside from the variations in special shirting fabric orders that various lines contract with Albini to produce, what are the qualitative differences between the fabrication methods across these high-end labels? Has anyone compiled a quality hierarchy list for shirts similar to the list(s) for suiting?

Assuming Marol, Anna Matuozzo, and other highly regarded bespoke tailors/shirtmakers are tailoring the highest quality of shirts, are hand finished details (e.g.:buttonholes) the things that set an RTW maker above others, when presumably, much of shirt construction is machine sewn (be it hand-operated vs. automated)?

 

[SartodiNapoli]

Albini has a very fake finishing process plenty of polymeres ( plastic), hence their fabric feels artificial and too cristal-plastic like.

Some of their products are good, but this is their main fail.

Also they have a very agressive (fake) marketing, I suspect the agency is the same as Zegna.

Let´s say they are the Mercedes of shirting, good but not the ultimate as they believe they are.

Also, never take as serious anything written on blogs or media about tailoring, is written by hyped outsiders who do not belong to the business and are plenty of lies and technical nonsense, most of them even get freebies or cash by that. I am tired of expossing them everytime I find a fake article.

Example on Forbes richest people list. Why the Rothschild family never shows up when they own almost everything?

Their best Albini line is DJ Anderson from 170/2 up, this is the one I use of them as shirtmaker most of the time, even is very limited in colors or designs. Meter price goes from 35 to 75 euros. A shirt takes aprox 1,7 meters.