This is starkly beautiful menswear made by Essius based in Zurich. It does have that picture perfect Swiss clockwork feel to it but that doesn’t make it any less exciting. On the contrary the SS17 collection by Essius is quite amazing and anyone going to wear this – and be able to afford it – will be noticed, provided you are not trying to get discretely into a private vehicle picking you up at the airport when disembarking a private Embraer jet while you hide behind your sunglasses. For this is timeless celebrity stuff, and somehow I picture Brian Ferry modeling it.
Of course Essius has private tailors who fly the world over to come measure you up à mésure so that ordering these sartorial gems is facilitated to the luxury convenience of an actual point-of-sale à la maison. For this is luxury & travelers chic so nothing less will do, and the brand appeal easily transcends the words urban or cosmopolitan, so that perhaps we can call it galaxy-chic – the galaxy being milk white, and white being one of the primary colors in the collection. And made in Italy of course from the finest fabrics and materials, the best knitting and stitching possible.
The double cashmere jacket we were able to admire at the presentation at the just recently renovated Paris Ritz Hotel (where Coco Chanel used to stay) deserves an honorable mention.
But we will reserve the highest marks for the colors and the style of the collection. Yes, it is classic but not traditional. No, in fact what we witnessed was an avant-garde timeless form of elegant chic set in the shapes, forms, and colors of the grand old Swiss-French master architect Le Corbusier (he after whom a peculiar style of sunglasses is named). Primary colors. Canary yellow. Cobalt blue. Milk white. Scarab black. Triangles. Squares. Only the red was missing. But a virtual sartorial golden dawn of structural simplicity delightfully set in the finest fabrics, linen, and cloth.
Menswear for millionaires. And ready-to-wear.
Posted by Sandro and photos from Essius press.
