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Stockholm based Acne is about subtle luxury and understated items. Clothes should feel like someone’s wardrobe – cool and personal. Aimed at creating
a modern framework for individuality, we find it great that in a short period of time Acne established itself as a top player
in the business not only as a fashion brand but also as a creative collective.

Adam Kimmel

Adam Kimmel is not your average menswear designer. Former architect student at NYU, he started making fashion back in 2001. Since then, he’s been taking inspiration from artists, cowboys or most recently hip hop icon Snoop Dogg and translating it into elegant, luxury menswear collections, reflecting the individual’s personality while making wearable clothes. Signature tailoring and researched fabrics are his cornerstones, with collections being produced in five cities in the north of Italy and the finer pieces being handmade. That’s his aesthetic, his own vision and style, taking inspiration and putting it together in an exciting new way.

Aquarama

Deeply rooted in the skills and values of local Umbrian artisans, Aquarama is a true outerwear specialist making tradition, quality and historic know-how, contemporary.

Band Of Outsiders

Since 2004, L.A. based Band of Outsiders consists in a set of re-interpreted american menswear classics drawn from Scott Sternberg’s strong and personal sense of nostalgia, balanced with a drive for innovation and quality.

Buttero

Family at work.
Perhaps better know in Japan
than in Europe, the Buttero family
are creating great high quality shoes based on authenticity, tradition and creativity.
Luca, Massimiliano and Claudio
are keeping it real by using traditional machines and handcraft methods as long as preserving leather’s unmistakeable fragrances.
The “spaghetti western” favorites, Tuscany style…

Boglioli

Boglioli jackets are unique
and no one in the world makes
a tailored, unstructured garment
dyed jacket like these people.
What began as a simple tailor’s shop in the early 20th century then became a reference for redeveloping traditional suits and jackets in exclusive and high quality fabrics. Boglioli dyes some of their ready made jackets while respecting
the Italian tailoring traditions.

Comme des Garçons Parfums

When the world of Comme des Garçons meets the universe
of perfume, a truly off the wall experience is to be expected.

Converse
by John Varvatos

Converse by John Varvatos sneakers are born from the collaboration between the legendary american sports company and the renowned fashion designer.
Converse’s punk/street self expression attitude is combined
with an artistic creative environment, reflecting a mood of optimism and youthful irreverence that goes
to the heart of both brands.

Cornelian Taurus

This Japanese brand displays
it’s identity trough the use of handcraft and an industrial approach by using heavy
bronze parts taken from boats. The bags are elegant, functional and made from high quality leathers tanned in Japan.
Holding a Cornelian Taurus bag
is a new amusing experience
and discovery wich should bring pride and strength to each one.

Diptyque

Through it’s range of candles, soaps,
eau de toilette, bath and body products, Diptyque conveys a variety of unexpected moments and places offering us an unusual olfactory landscape (for more than 40 years). The iconic black lettering on the renowned oval label provides a perfect setting for the brand’s distinctive, unmistakable personality.

Épice

Danish designers, Bess Nielsen and Jan Machenhauer share a personal empathy and fascination for Indian culture and textile expertise. They summit a great knowledge about the artisanal working process and raw materials. ÉPICE was launched
in 1999 and creates scarves using subtlety of colours, softness of touch, refinement of weavings
and prints.

Linda Farrow

Simon and Tracy are doing a great job in the pursuit of Linda Farrow’s pioneering endeavor. Whether through its collaborations with acclaimed designers or the eponymous Luxe range, these sunglasses continue to personify avant-garde cutting edge design and attitude.

Giorgio Brato

A real master when it comes to dying leather and craftsmanship techniques, making each piece one of a kind, the “tinto in capo “technique is his main virtue.
What more can we say about a guy who used his favorite wine
do dye a collection?!…

Goti

Riccardo is part of “our family”.
Mixing mostly silver with leather,
his jewellery creations emanate
from artisanal processes and bring
up the utmost care and feeling
he puts into his work. Additionally,
his collaboration with Santa Maria
Novella revealed us a great “nose”
for perfumes as well.
Being a family business makes them
special and very near to us.

Helmut Lang

Having carried his finest
clothing and luxury goods
for quite a while, we still have
some precious pieces from
when the man was still around.
We miss him so much…

Maison Martin Margiela

The “invisible” designer, part of the
so called Antwerp Six soon showed
us how one can play with the idea
and form of a piece or garment and deviate/subvert it’s original condition or purpose.
One of our biggest references over time he has a status of it’s own.

Neil Barrett

Originating from a tailor’s family allowed Neil to firmly engrave
his unique signature style based on brilliant designs and combining british tailoring skills with the finest italian craftsmanship. Bringing together quality, wearability and fashion trends,
he makes great unpretentious clothes for real guys.

n.d.c.

Artisan hand-crafted with carefully selected leathers, Arnaud Zannier and Enrique Corbi offer us timeless classics with simplicity, quality, originality and constructional know-how. They believe that the strength of their brand is the product itself.
We endorse it totally!

Our Legacy

These swedes are really making
it happen. Step by step they are building a brand by picking up casual classic style influences
and transforming it into cool contemporary looks.

Paul Smith

After a cycling accident and some tailoring classes, Paul Smith was able to create what he wanted. What started as a shop soon became his own label. Managing to transmit a genuine sense of humour and mischief mixed with his love of tradition and the classics, Sir Paul’s collections always remind us of that colorful world of ideas and excitement he was so fond of when he first started.

Raf Simons

Clean structural cuts, tailored linear silhouettes and youth culture references. Strongly influenced by art, music, performance and photography, Raf Simons is considered one
of the great innovators in contemporary men’s fashion.
Isolation, future, community, nature, freedom – all these describe the work of the belgian designer who regards people
as the real driving force.

Raparo

A family company since the beginning,
the shoe production is characterized
by the high quality of italian handcraft.
With a lot of attention to detail, their shoes
are classic with a contemporary spin.

Tonello

Tailoring meets modernity. Strongly anchored in tradition, experience and the highest industrial tailoring technique, Tonello brings us classics with
a modern appeal, always focused on detail, scrupulously followed methods and the high quality
of the raw materials.

ts(s)

Balancing between oppositions, adapting
the styles of work, military, sport and so on. Particular in colors and patterns while blending and switching the way of adopting materials.
We are quite thrilled to carry these japanese flavored styles.

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