Evening cocktails celebrate the opening of this year’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, officially underway as of last night. Stay tuned over the coming days for our coverage of the show.
Helming a decorous and buzzy open kitchen, Kent native Allan Picket’s four-month-old restaurant Piquet tips its seasoned culinary hat to all things La France but with the best of British produce.
Standing out among the more classic brands Pitti Uomo brims with, Paris-based brand Le Loir en Papillon handcrafts exquisite bowties, pocket squares and scarves, as well as extravagant cufflinks and lapel-pins.
For next season Italian knitwear company Cruciani opts for classic, timeless forms like V- and high necks, as well as loose fitting knit jackets in exquisite materials such as cashmere-silk, merino, Baby alpaca and Davos.
Military inspired jackets, blazers and reversible coats of techno materials featuring innovative patterns and unusual colours – the result of a collaboration between Herno and graphic designer/fashion illustrator Pierre-Louis Mascia.
Like father, like son – Florentine fashion house Stefano Ricci launches the SR Junior Collection, a line dedicated to the passing down of values and educating children on style.
Massimo Rossetti's Parajumpers collaboration with Japanese artist Yoshinori Ono dubbed the Kegen 3 in 1 – a high-tech jacket-coat-bodywarmer combo presented at Pitti.
Celebrating their 165th birthday this year, at Pitti, British brand Aquascutum presented an update to their classic Kingsway trench coat,, modernising the fabric used to create a new style – The Bogart – named after the coat’s most iconic wearer.
MINI’s Gentleman’s Playground provided toys inspired by their Clubman car, exploring infancy and adulthood – their own perspective on this Pitti’s theme – alongside the original creations of six young designers in this dedicated area of the fair.
Pitti Uomo, Florence’s international men’s fashion fair, launched yesterday in eclectic spirit under the surreal gaze of an installation of blinking eyes by set designer Oliviero Baldini. This year’s focus: “Generation(s)”.
Zip-up jerseys (some sequenced, some not), woollen jumpers (some patterned, some cable-knit) and the omnipresent trench at Burberry’s revamped runway show in Kensington Gardens.
