About Tessabit (UK)

Tessabit is an Italian luxury retailer from Como, family-run since the sixties, with boutiques on Lake Como and an international website. It stocks designer labels rather than producing its own.

Buying from a European multi-brand retailer rather than from a designer's own site can produce a lower price on the identical item, since these companies buy at wholesale and compete with one another on retail margin. What you give up is the brand's own returns and aftercare experience.

What they carry

Designer clothing for women and men across the Italian and international houses, from ready-to-wear through to occasion pieces.

Shoes, bags and small leather goods make up a large share, alongside jewellery, watches and accessories. Kidswear from designer labels runs as a separate department.

Buying designer from abroad

Three things to settle before ordering. Import charges are the first: since the UK left the EU, a parcel from Italy may attract duty and VAT collected either at checkout or on delivery, and on a designer item that figure is substantial rather than incidental.

Second, sizing follows Italian conventions and varies between houses, so use each brand's own conversion rather than a general chart. Third, returns cross a border, which takes longer and may require paperwork. Check who pays the return shipping before ordering two sizes.

Using a Tessabit discount code

Put the designer pieces in the bag, apply the code at the checkout and confirm the total before ordering. These are listed as Tessabit discount codes, voucher codes and promo codes.

Designer houses restrict how their stockists discount and enforce it strictly, so sitewide offers here carry exclusion lists covering the most protected labels. The seasonal sales, which follow the Italian retail calendar rather than the British one, run far deeper than any code and are when a multi-brand retailer genuinely undercuts a brand's own shop. Sale stock does not usually take a further percentage.