STYLE Edit: Ermenegildo Zegna’s chic fall/winter 2019 collection embraces sustainable luxury
Artistic director Alessandro Sartori presented stylish, richly textured pieces – including innovative multifunctional designs – created using recycled and recyclable fabrics
Milano Centrale railway station was the setting for luxury Italian fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna’s fall/winter 2019 collection – embracing urban connections and modern diversity in both ambience and high fashion.
“Borders keep being narrowed throughout the world,” Alessandro Sartori, Zegna’s Italian artistic director, says.
I felt the urge to advocate the power of openness and multiplicity as a fashion designer … at every step of the creative process – from textile-making to devising new categories of clothing to staging a fashion show in such a meaningful place
“I felt the urge to advocate the power of openness and multiplicity through my own means as a fashion designer, expressing awareness and responsibility at every step of the creative process – from textile-making to devising new categories of clothing to the staging of a fashion show in such a meaningful place.”
The monumental Milanese station put Zegna’s fall/winter collection in its most relevant perspective: the menswear collection exudes functional, urban style.
The collection comprises 44 looks, each easily imagined being worn by the sartorial man on his commute.
Sartori’s vision of the “contemporary metropolitan wardrobe” includes the most fashionable pair of cargo trousers you will ever see.
Those all-too-familiar pockets halfway down the leg actually look good – even deliberate – in Sartori’s elevated conception.
In his “new categories” of menswear, shirts turn into boxy, more substantial forms, resembling jackets, while the tailored suit jacket grows outerwear pockets.
Quilted parkas feature detachable collars, and fully tailored trousers narrow towards an elasticated bottom cuff.