Aspesi Italy

Aspesi Italy is the deliberately-Italian-craft-research sub-line of Aspesi, the Italian luxury-outerwear house founded in 1969 in Legnano. The Aspesi Italy sub-line emphasizes the deliberately-Italian-craft-anchored origin of the broader Aspesi product, with the sub-line specifically focused on the Italian-tailoring traditions that define the broader Aspesi brand. The sub-designation has been used to distinguish Aspesi's deliberately-Italian-craft product line from broader Aspesi mass-market distribution. The Aspesi Italy vocabulary settled around several specific products: deliberately-Italian-craft-anchored field-jacket and trench-coat product (the broader Aspesi proposition has been continuously anchored to deliberately-Italian-construction outerwear — see the broader Aspesi brand entry for the full vocabulary), hand-finished Italian-mill cotton-and-wool tailored separates, hand-stitched Italian-leather small-goods, and a colour palette anchored to muted oxblood, ivy green, midnight, ecru, plus the brand's recurring use of natural-undyed and traditional-Italian-craft-aesthetic colour combinations. The sub-line is part of Aspesi, the privately-held Italian luxury-outerwear house family-controlled by the Aspesi family through three generations (Alberto Aspesi's daughter Lawrence Steele continues as creative director after Alberto Aspesi's 2018 death). Aspesi Italy distributes through every Aspesi flagship store globally — anchored to Milan (Via San Pietro all'Orto, Via Sant'Andrea), Rome, Tokyo (Aoyama), plus international wholesale through MR PORTER, MATCHES, and a curated set of contemporary-Italian-luxury-menswear specialty retailers globally.