Monday, June 23, 2025
BEAUTY: Clothing--Vivienne Westwood/Andreas Kronthaler
In 2017 Vivienne Westwood left Milan to show at London Fashion Week but Andreas Kronthaler, Vivienne's widower, has taken the brand back to its Italian roots. He showed his menswear for Spring Summer '26 at Bar Rivoli next to the church of San Babila for Milano Moda Uomo. Using ideas, shapes, and motifs from the house's long heritage (historical cuts, incredible bold suiting, the name Let It Rock which was Westwood's first storefront in Chelsea), he presented the collection as an ode to Dandyism. It was classic Westwood, complete with the towering platforms that toppled Naomi Campbell once upon a time...
"This Spring-Summer is our first solo presentation of menswear since 2017 – and it’s great to be back in Milan, the home of menswear.
We’re showing the collection in Bar Rivoli, next to San Babila, once the heart of Fiorucci, and close to our flagship store, where the Milanese meet to begin and end the day.
From early Renaissance to The Grand Tour, the English have admired the Mediterranean way of life – they brought a certain way of dressing here and the Italians made it their own.
The look is a dandy of today – it’s all about summer. There is lightweight hemp and soft tweed, fine suede, crisp stripe cottons, washed and printed poplin, delicate ink drawn flowers by artist Dominic Myatt.
The timeless elegance of English tailoring and the ‘raffinato non so che Milanese’.
When a man has style, it means so much. It has nothing to do with fashion, it’s about style."
— Andreas Kronthaler
https://www.viviennewestwood.com/
"This Spring-Summer is our first solo presentation of menswear since 2017 – and it’s great to be back in Milan, the home of menswear.
We’re showing the collection in Bar Rivoli, next to San Babila, once the heart of Fiorucci, and close to our flagship store, where the Milanese meet to begin and end the day.
From early Renaissance to The Grand Tour, the English have admired the Mediterranean way of life – they brought a certain way of dressing here and the Italians made it their own.
The look is a dandy of today – it’s all about summer. There is lightweight hemp and soft tweed, fine suede, crisp stripe cottons, washed and printed poplin, delicate ink drawn flowers by artist Dominic Myatt.
The timeless elegance of English tailoring and the ‘raffinato non so che Milanese’.
When a man has style, it means so much. It has nothing to do with fashion, it’s about style."
— Andreas Kronthaler
https://www.viviennewestwood.com/
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