As tailored clothing returns to men's fashion, Aldo Maria Camillo's relaxed shapes and distressed, pre-washed look should ease the transition from business casual style.
At his presentation in Paris, he called a model in a black double-breasted suit to show off her relaxed waist and her even wider, slitless back. Grasping the satin lapels and caressing the shoulders, she explained how the wash had softened a garment that she could wear to a black-tie function or lounge at home in style.
“I wash the fabrics and then wash the entire garment to give that idea of something already worn,” she said.
His inspiration changes and for the fall he described a “mental trip to the Balkans,” mentioning the films of Emir Kusturica.
But the core of his work is “exploring tailoring in a modern and consistent way, believing so much in this category,” Camillo enthused. “The idea is to create my suit, my spirit and not change it every season.”
Camillo noted that since shifting manufacturing from Italy to Japan, through the sourcing and manufacturing support of United Arrows' Hirofumi Kurino, it has amassed 18 wholesale accounts in the island nation.
Now it is slowly adding more categories, including cashmere knitwear and washed silk and lyocell shirts, that fit its attractive, vivid-looking fashion universe.
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