For his first big display and runway show for the international audience as the designer project of this season’s Pitti Uomo, Jan-Jan Van Essche sought to distill his own essence.
A sense of tranquility ran through the presentation, held inside the colonnaded hallways of the striking 13th-century Santa Maria Novella and in the adjacent frescoed cloister where models stood at the end of the show to the beat of drums.
As the Pitti folks — those peacocking in the courtyard of the fairgrounds and designers in their fall collections — embrace workwear with gusto, Van Essche toyed with the same references, adding a layer of soulfulness and softness that struck a chord.
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