It is an existential condition that makes us feel reconnected to ourselves and to life and allows us to grasp what is important and what is superfluous or unnecessarily burdensome. Lightness – the keyword of the Lardini collection for spring-summer 2025 – is intended in the Calvinian sense of “authoritativeness without weight”, pursuing an aesthetic and ethical lightness that does not sacrifice sartorial perfection or the usual sophisticated research into materials, shapes, volumes, proportions, and colours.
A harmonious season triumphantly brings to mind the slow, relaxed pace of certain French Riviera resorts, to which Luigi Lardini has looked back for inspiration, but without any form of nostalgia. And so this décontracté spirit translates into blazers without internal structures, as casual as a cardigan even if perfectly cut with a double-breasted front, worn over rounded trousers, under open-necked shirts which are in turn worn over a visible tank top. The focus on a ‘combinatory’ wardrobe, where you can match different elements to suit your mood and desires, is apparent in the layering methodology as a contemporary solution for a modern, serene wardrobe that is cosmopolitan in its studied nonchalance. Even suits and dinner jackets surrender to the languid awareness that today’s identity is expressed in multiple ways that are never uniform.
Linen, on its own or in blends with silk and wool, wool cavalry in soft weights, cotton fabrics of varying weights, ultra-soft denim in blends with Tencel and volatile silk create a masculine silhouette that borrows a sense of free fluidity from women’s fashion: in the loose but not oversized overcoats; in the new tie combinations in the same tone as the shirt or even the jacket; in the unprecedented twinset of tops, polo shirts, and cardigans to be combined as you wish, when you wish: knitwear also plays an important role in this philosophy of relaxed, neat, calm style. The colour rainbow extends from black to tobacco and then transitions into navy blue, sage green, touches of antique pink or wisteria, milk white, cloud
grey and sand beige. Fabrics are sometimes treated with tea washes or chrome effects that almost give a patina of the already familiar, already known: tactile solutions that permit the composition of ever new and always individual clothing melodies. And therefore allow the birth of a new concept of luxury, contrary to everything that is purely trendy: a process of constructing your own original way of being, not subject to time constraints, but aimed at creating a more human, gentler lifestyle. In a cosmos where standardisation reigns supreme, Lardini stands as a beacon of distinction, conceiving dressing as a journey into the intimate search for who we are and the dream of who we wish to become. And where dressing becomes a singular ritual, the result of gentle engineering, which on the one hand gives clothes the security of an appeal that is never aggressive, and on the other gives shape to the many ways of being a man. Today.
