FEMININITY, UNDERLINED WITH REASONABLE ELEGANCE

Actual proposals of «Motives» for the winter season One more season devoted to the retaking of the femininity with unostentatious elegance. “The strict chic” is shown through an ordinary soft silhouette, without being too obligatory. This is “minimalist style “that inspires image, composed of cleaned short coats, long to the knees jackets and luxurious knitting.

Round skirts, blouses type “polo”, “trench” coats, check and tuide – the symbols of many years of the bourgeoisie style, return. The more rebellious side of the woman of the season autumn-winter is showed through the darker image, with dominating black color - “trench” coats, silky jackets and prints with pop icons, saturated denim and relief accessories. In this season the woman “Motives” combines in it the male detachment, opposed to the Bohemian attractiveness at stylish cocktail, mixed with taste of hippie chic.

The actual materials are, on the one hand, the traditional British textiles from the men’s wardrobe, and on the other – the softer chiffon, georgette, satin, jersey and viscose. The season is filled with shades and prints. The color palette varies from the dark range of colors – grey, petroleum green, blue, brown and the obligatory black in variation silky and mat – to the light nuances of the beige and of the natural white. The motley accents are in red, violet and yellow color. The line of the toilets is long; actual are the super short coats and dresses, as also the А-silhouette, combined with belt. The balloon-silhouette is replaced with egg-silhouette, and the collars are big and often raised.

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1. - 4. Actual proposals of «Motives» for the winter season.

Photo: © MDL

Actual proposals of «Motives» for the winter season

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THE MAN IN THE WINTER SEASON – ARISTOCRATIC AND ELEGANT

The line “Couture” is the highest class in the product scale of “Ermenegildo Zegna”, characterized with luxurious and expensive details and aristocratic textiles. The line is created in atmosphere of refined simplicity and dainty elegance for leaders, who dress them selves for pleasure and who are proud with their appearance.

The suits “Couture” are peak achievement at the hand-made clothes, produced wholly in the Italian factories of the company. The evening official suits take the bigger and bigger part from the wardrobe of the contemporary man. «Zegna» offers one refined look on the men’s official clothing, betting on the silky, the cotton and the velvet jackets with shawl-collars, bordered with silky ends and nacreous buttons in Bourgogne red, cobalt blue or midnight black. The jackets are with ornamental sewing at the lapels and at the breast pockets. Actual accessories are the silky bow-ties and the shoes from natural patent leather, complement from gloves with short hair.

Models of the line „Couture” of „Zegna”

The blue and the granite grey dominate at the range of colors for the winter. In combination with the ultra luxurious fine textiles, they give soft and refined and of the classical jackets with two buttons. The silhouette is long, following tender the twists of the body. The high lapels, the ornamental sewing and the horn buttons are complement with shoes “limited edition” from crocodile leather.

Italian elegancefor the contemporary businessman

The collection “Sartoria” offers one refined and elegant decision for the contemporary business wardrobe that we can define as „Made in Italу” style, created for the man, who is ready to express him self through the clothing.

The last development of the design department of „Zegna” at the textiles is the newest textile ‘Trofeo’. Produced from the finest Australian wool, ‘Trofeo’ answers entirely at the high requirements of the contemporary business suit – it is extremely easy for maintenance, ensuring irreproachable appearance during the whole day.
The world leaders at the silhouettes - ‘Roma’ and ‘Milano’ are in the base of collection „Sartoria” for the season autumn-winter 2008-09. ‘Roma’, with its proved during the time neoclassical, looser silhouettes, and ‘Milano’, with the tidy at the body shorten jackets with tight shoulders, give to the man a unique refined elegance.

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1. Models of the line „Couture” of „Zegna”.
2. - 4. Actual proposals for the winter wardrobe of the man from collection „Sartoria” of „Zegna”.

Photo: © MDL

Actual proposals for the winter wardrobe of the man from collection „Sartoria” of „Zegna”