Kiepe

Kiepe is an Italian brand founded in 1960 in Premana, the small mountain town in Lecco province that has been Italy’s scissor-making heart for generations. Premana’s cutlery tradition is the Italian equivalent of Seki or Solingen, and a brand made there carries genuine regional credibility. Kiepe trades as Kiepe Professional and reaches the UK market through its own site, which is where many English-speaking stylists first encounter it.

What sets the brand apart from a pure scissor house is breadth. Alongside cutting shears, thinners, and left-handed models, Kiepe makes a full slate of salon electricals, clippers, trimmers, and straighteners. That puts it in the broader salon-supply category, which has practical upside if you like buying tools from one supplier, and a small trade-off in that scissors are one part of the catalogue rather than the whole of it.

Range and steel

The cutting catalogue is wide: blunt, slide and point cutting, volume and texture control, cut-and-thinning, reshaping, and detailing fine textures all appear on the specialty list. That spread reads like a line built to handle most standard salon work rather than chase a single signature technique. The blades are listed simply as stainless steel without a named grade, which is honest but means edge-retention expectations should be set accordingly. Pricing sits in the value band, roughly $100 to $200, a fair bracket for a professional Italian-made pair without a premium outlay.

Buying

Kiepe sells through kiepe.co.uk and UK retailers including Direct Hairdressing Scissors and Chris & Sons. Stylists outside the UK should factor in shipping. Compare it against other Italian brands, or browse the wider brand directory. If you have used Kiepe scissors, reach out through our contact page.