Casual dressing is on a whole other level at Pitti Uomo. Ease and elegance takes centre stage in Florence, even when the temperatures are high and the sun beaming. Blue, khaki and summer white form the majority of the palette – and for a reason. They’re versatile, go with anything and looks good on everyone.
Pitti Uomo: that great menswear tradeshow that biannually rolls into Florence like a colourful carnival of dapper men; where women fight to keep their title of the fairer sex and the queues to the men’s bathrooms are – a rare event indeed – longer than those to the ladies’. But while the parade of stylish men turns the sartorially inclined into a kid in a…
Accessories can easily promote good outfits into great ones and the men at Pitti Uomo know that the best. See what happens when you add an extra layer of cool to your outfit, whether it be a great bag, a killer pair of shoes or a camo umbrella. The finishing touches can make all the difference.
Thomas Hancock, in 1843, invented the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur. That process, when applied to handmade, expertly cut and wonderfully coloured (think tennis green and honeysuckle red) garments is what forms the basis of Hancock, a new brand that specialises in creating raincoats. In the midst of Pitti, we sat down to talk to Daniel Dunko, founder and creator of Hancock about what it…
The first day of Pitti Uomo saw temperatures hit a sunny 37 degrees but the soaring temperatures (compared to last week in London, at least) won’t deter the men of Florence going out the gate guns blazing. Speaking of, blazers were in full force, almost all of them cotton and many double breasted. It’s remarkable that most don’t break a sweat, but it guess it…
Like whisky, the most stylish men at Pitti Uomo get better with age. With time their styles evolve. They develop trademarks and quirks that both represent and define them. Street style photographers adore them; sartorially focused youths want to be them when they grow up. Epitomising the quirky side of Florentine fashion as it sweeps the grounds of Pitti Uomo is CEO and President of…
View all the catwalk photos of the Valentino autumn (fall) / winter 2012 showing at Pitti Uomo.
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Has it actually come full circle, rising from the ashes instead of settling into the dust of the battlefields where it was shot down? It certainly seems that way. After being a dominant trend for the better part of the past decade men’s military fashion is back to exactly where it started. You need only take a look over the street style photos to come…
Ever a man to watch, Nick Wooster’s style always maintains a perfect balance between being kempt and rugged. With his his gait, tattoos and selection of clothes Wooster has an air of attitude about him, yet none of it is without a well practised polish nor an obvious sense of refinement. Attending day three of spring 2012‘s Pitti Uomo, Wooster gave men everywhere a lesson…
You’ll see many a pair of gloves in the top pocket of the overcoats worn by the gents at Pitti Uomo, but you’ll see few pocket handkerchiefs in their place. Tailor Valentino Ricci doesn’t make the mistake of leaving his pocket bare, however.
It wasn’t all booths and catwalks at this year’s Pitti Uomo with Gareth Pugh turning, as he commonly does, to a video presentation.
Pitti Uomo 79 saw the 100th anniversary of Trussardi and it obvious that those preceding years have not dulled the label’s love of leather in the least. The collection, something an homage to the many ways in which the material can be used, plays to the relaxed fit of many of the autumn / fall 2011 men’s collections we’ve been privy to at Milan fashion…
The pictures we snapped of the super chic crowd attending the second day of Florence’s Pitti Uomo are now online. With the second day proving much busier than the first, the crowd were eager to pick through Pitti’s offering all the while proving their own sartorial credentials.
Pitti Uomo, and it’s smaller sibling Pitti Donna, are over for another year, Florences’s weather having left host city Florence largely dry. In a climate of constant decline for menswear sales (Italian menswear sales have declined year on year since 2007) 2011′s Pitti left us with no doubt that this is a time where most pundits are putting their money into several key areas. So…
A selection of pictures from day one of Pitti Uomo 79, largely of the street style variety, are now online.
Excuse the lo-fi quality, this was snapped on my iPhone at Pitti Uomo today, but given the sentiments of the quote run so close to Fashionising.com’s own outlook on the matter, the opportunity was just too good to pass up.
If you could mix up a formula for cool that involved two parts dashingly handsome and one part danger, then the end result would undoubtedly be Steve McQueen. McQueen is legendary not just for a stellar film career but as an avid car and motorcycle racer, adventurer, stuntman and style icon. It was in celebration of the latter that we gathered yesterday, on the first…
