MILAN MEN’S FASHION WEEK AW/24: LARDINI

MR is pleased to present our recap of Milan Men’s Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2024/25. We could not cover all of the 60+ collections showing, so we selected the designers and brands we thought most relevant to you, our readers, if there is someone we missed who you would like to see, please leave a comment below and we will try to include them.

LARDINI

The ethos behind the Lardini AW/24 collection was “Elegance is a perpetual evolution, ” where each era invents its idea of classical. In his collection notes, designer Luigi Lardini quotes the Italian writer and archaeologist, Salvatore Settis, from his 2006 book, The Future of the Classical, with “To shape the world of tomorrow it is necessary to rethink our many roots.” Lardini used this to help define the design process for the season and presented modern tailoring with a sober, almost minimal silhouette enhanced by the finest fabrics; more a pursuit of “dressing beautifully” than conventional “fine dressing,” to create the new classics of tomorrow.

The Lardini palette of the season is antique pink, citrine yellow, cream, honey, camel, chestnut, mahogany, light gray, denim blue, midnight blue, black, and carmine red.

Silhouettes are kept simplistic, the double pea coat is refined to serve as an alternative to the jacket, the Donegal tweed dinner jacket can be worn on various occasions, and the waistcoat of the wool jersey three-piece suit has a life of its own when combined with other garments, the cloak embraces the fullness of a kimono, and the jacket options include single-breasted jackets with peaked lapels as well as overshirts and shirt jackets.

It is a collection conceived and designed “like a big wardrobe where everyone feels free to choose how and what to wear according to the taste and mood of the moment because fashion is a way of expressing oneself.”