ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA

Zegna takes menswear and removes all constrictions for its Spring/Summer 2023 collection

FREEDOM & Lightness

ZEGNA’S SPRING/SUMMER 2023 COLLECTION IS A BEAUTIFUL HARMONY BETWEEN FASHION AND NATURE

Zegna goes back to where it all began: in Oasi Zegna. The brand’s latest collection for Spring/Summer 2023 was presented at the unique ecosystem in Trivero, about 100 km away from Milan, on the rooftop of the historical Lanificio Zegna wool mill. The line is filled with a feeling of freedom and extreme lightness. In this offering, Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori expresses his vision for the future of tailoring that includes new shapes and textures, building up a new language, a new sartorial philosophy that references everything from activewear to workwear.

”My work stems from a question: what’s next for tailoring? And for the needs of the lives of today? The idea is to use our craftsmanship

as a progressive tool, keeping the finesse, the attention to detail, the respect of materials while experimenting with shapes that are light and materials, solutions and finishes that give these shapes a new technicality, to mostly building up a new silhouette where effortless and innovation create a new style for men. In doing so, we keep expanding and solidifying a distinctive language, the one of Zegna,” says Alessandro Sartori.

The collection is individual rather than conformist, personal and free rather than constrictive, bringing the lightness and the freedom of the Oasi Zegna as an environment into the city. The pieces showcase loose garments and are unstructured, barely touching the body: kimono-cut jackets, impalpable coats, shirts and tops that double as outerwear. Moreover, the ironed pleat disappears from trousers that keep a firm volume and have rounded shapes. Bermuda shorts are relaxed, while tailored blazers are freed from the necessity of having a collar.

Technological research allows for mesh to turn into fabric, the fashioning of new families of garments that are technical and extremely light. Transparency affirms the idea of weightlessness. Terry is tailored into suits that match shirt jackets and slacks. The season reflects a general feeling of lightness, which is reflected through materials and colours: engineered knitwear, technical silk, meshes, rubberised nylons, wools, terry, rubberised leather, while lacquered nappa comes in an earthy palette accented with notes of powder white, butter cup, dusty rose, honey, vicuña, mocha, hickory, charcoal, sulfur and black. It somehow creates a sense of lightness in a way that appears effortlessly modern.

For the accessories, Zegna presents the iconic Triple Stitch™ Sneaker that expands its borders and turns into a true creative platform debuting with an inedited version of the shoe. This shoe collection is designed by Alessandro Sartori with Daniel Bailey, the London-based designer and footwear innovator, founder of Conceptkicks, also better known as Mr. Bailey.

Zegna’s all-encompassing ethos is moreover embodied in Oasi Cashmere, through which Oasi Zegna becomes an emblem to representing the brand’s road to traceability as far as its values give consistency, tactile materiality and deep to fabrics grown and woven out of a passion for excellence and love for the beauty of nature and the overall harmony that only a responsible development can guarantee.

Oasi Zegna is a 100km2 of free access natural territory located in the Biellese Alps, Piedmont, Italy established in 1930 by Ermenegildo Zegna. It is not only a unique model of societal and environmental consciousness, but also, and more broadly, a set of values that ultimately foster consistency and promote harmony: between men, engine and nature, past and present, belief and innovation.