Berluti stuck to a safe selection of painterly primary colour hues, something that menswear is constantly trying its damnedest to popularise, and layered monochromes for a swish SS16 collection. LVMH’s resident luxury cobbler, headed up by creative director Alessandro Sartori, also made sure to spare no expense when it came to suiting and booting this collection to the nth degree.
Sartori also specified that range is important to a brand of such premium standing and outfitted SS16 with everything, from a handful of slap-dash graphic print shirts to more refined sports jackets and classic holdalls in cobalt brights for that extra dash of modern sophistication.
That aforementioned painterly motif had quite a deep grounding in the context that surrounds Berluti’s latest shout, as a matter of fact, especially because it all made its debut at the newly revamped Picasso Museum on Rue de Thorigny. It’s certainly fair to say that the very essence of Picasso’s most visceral and lurid canvases, by way of Sartori, touched this collection to some extent. It’s always nice, at the end of the day, when a brand that is driven by such a watertight business model is able to embrace high art, and make it into high fashion as masterfully as this.
by Liam Feltham
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