The Brits take Milano! Andreas Kronthaler, who usually stages his Vivienne Westwood collections co-ed in Paris, decided to put on a menswear catwalk in the Italian fashion capital Sunday morning. It’s the first time the brand has done a standalone men’s show since 2017, taking over Bar Rivoli, a cafe in the heart of the city near the Westwood flagship store, for the grand occasion.
“When a man has style, it means so much. It has nothing to do with fashion, it’s about style,” said Kronthaler of the collection which was based around this idea of a modern dandy, meeting classic tailoring with a fluid, anarchic flair.
Suits came with broad shouldered jackets and trousers that were cropped high above the ankle, paired with supersized trilbys and either a George Cox creeper or a fab kitten heel. Some models even braved the slippy marble floor in Westwood’s famously sky-high platforms, clad in draped goddess dresses, leather pirate trousers swung low at the crotch and rugby shirts extended into frocks. Throughout, classic Westwood-isms were given a sartorial tint, proving once more many of the codes Vivienne built the brand on still pack a punch today – making for one of the highlight moments from Milan so far.
Photography courtesy of Vivienne Westwood.
