Macdonald, a company built on experience, creativity and product care stands, for providing high quality knitted products and accessories. This company was founded in 1981 by Donatella Marchetti and her husband Gianfranco Ridolfi. It’s aim was to rediscover and emphasize knitwear production stages along with essential elements of craftmanship that belongs to their native country’s cultural tradition. In the 80’s, Macdonald's cultural heritage and know-how together with it’s quality of workmanship and capability to produce a medium quality standard at a low cost, conquered the north european market. In the 90’s Macdonald decided to follow the winning policy of high quality. Technology and craftmanship were perfectly brought together thanks to innovative and sophisticated knitted electronic machinery. Through years and years of flourish activity, our company established a reputation for high quality fully fashioned garments. Our remarkable performance thanks to complete in-house state-of-the art manufacturing facilities and sophisticated technology allows superlative quality and guarantees privacy of the collections.

Macdonald's core business is the research, development and production of "ready to wear" knitwear collections for private labels. In these 40 years of history we have served the most famous luxury brands in the world. Since 2015 we have started serving emerging fashion brands by establishing a beautiful and fruitful teamwork with them.

In 2019, from an idea of the oweners' sons, born ALEXRIDOLFI men's knitwear collection. ALEXRIDOLFI’s man is dynamic, ascetic but trendy who loves his career, his family and his free time. ALEXRIDOLFI’s man has in its DNA the elegance (from the Latin e-ligere, “to know how to choose”) because he knows how to recognize pure quality yarns such as Cashmere, Wool, Silk so these are synonyms of "Italian craftsmanship and precious 100% Made in Italy know-how". Essential ingredients of this heritage is a combination of pure quality, international vibe and a respectful approach towards artisanal labour and sustainability whilst keeping an eye on price friendly solutions.