“Cuir Allure” – Photo by Gianluca Fontana, Model Laurent Marc Meri, Fashion Editor Carlo Ortenzi, Pantaloni in pelle nera e mantella di Trussardi (A/I 2009).

 An elegance made of multicoloured stripes. Paul Smith: a style icon. His clothes: a perfect mix of refinement and irony that fully represents English style and culture. Paul Smith’s fashion seduces people successfully thanks to a varied system of acute and smart intuitions that involve his whole world, from clothing to accessories up to fragrances: a 360 degrees conception in which all the elements are mixed with extreme coherence and complete harmony. The stores also sell vintage pieces, such as toys, design objects and books. They’re laboratories of ideas that tell his passions: sport, music, women, collecting, art and, obviously, fashion. Paul Smith has expressed his brilliance til the 80s and he became well-known in Italy in the following decade, testing – one of the first – colour and art in fashion; his “stripes”, his fluid shapes, the rock hints, corrupt the collections without excluding the codes of elegance, ennobled by fine fabrics and intentionally classic and sartorial cuts. But there’s always an eccentric detail that distinguishes his idea of tradition: in the picture, the model wears a classic double-breasted suit, but its pattern is slightly asymmetric. And the shirt: the contrasting stripe along the buttons looks like a tie. Rather, it has to be worn without the tie. A total look Paul Smith in this picture by Gianluca Fontana (above) and (below) a still life picture of cufflinks with the typical motif with coloured stripes.

Style Magazine esce nuovamente, come lo scorso maggio, con un’edizione speciale dedicata alla Cina: Italian Style. Come il precedente, il magazine verrà sia distribuito in Italia che consegnato insieme al visto a tutti i turisti cinesi in visita nel nostro paese. Questa volta in concomitanza con un evento organizzato da Style con la Fondazione Italia Cina: la conferenza “La Cina che verrà – come cambiano gusti e scelte dei cinesi che visitano l’Italia”, che avrà luogo  lunedì 18 novembre alle 18.30 in Via Balzan 3 a Milano. Il servizio moda contenuto all’interno di Italian Style che vedete in queste foto, questa volta è di Gianluca Fontana, lo styling è di Alessandro Calascibetta. Fashion Editor assistant Angelica Pianarosa. Capelli di Nicholas James per Greenapple e Make-Up di Adalberto P. per Freelancer. I brand presenti nel servizio fotografico sono citati nei crediti anche in lingua italiana.

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