LEATHER LOVE Hard-wearing, eyecatching and so pleasant to run your fingers along, leather is one of the materials that everyone should be prepared to invest in. So it’s not surprising that the fashion industry is constantly trying to reinvent it by taking it to the next level: take TOD’S wonderfully inventive denim leather jacket, which is created by digitally printing the denim motif onto the leather. Or try the Pelle Tessuta (Woven Leather) accessories of ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA, where thin strips of select nappa leather are woven like fabric yarn to achieve an extraordinary, unique textile. TOD’S denim leather jacket in lambskin with contrast stitching ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA weekender bag in Pelle Tessuta 72 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
DEPT OF FOOTWEAR Start off on the right foot this season. There’s an array of new or updated styles to choose from. While BALLY revisited its archive to bring back its best trainers models from past decades, CHURCH’S offers a new, three-colour variation of its classic Pembrey loafer. Meanwhile, CROCKETT & JONES and SANTONI focus on new constructions and flexibility: the first creating its most comfortable Chelsea boot ever, the latter launching a crocodile loafer so soft that it can bend in a circle. From the top: BALLY Vita- Parcours in calf-suede with check side pattern CROCKETT & JONES Cranleigh in suede with unlined fore-part, last 377 and super-flexible City Rubber Sole CHURCH’S leather Pembrey loafer in cherry, white and navy SANTONI hand-coloured and hand-stitched Carlos loafer in soft crocodile CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 73
