Is there a chicer way to end Milan Fashion Week Men’s than Mads Mikkelsen closing the Zegna show? The handsome actor, who is a global ambassador of the brand, elegantly graced the catwalk in a maroon calf leather jacket with the collar popped, carrying two holdalls in same buttery fabric. He looked as if he’d just touched down in a sunkissed oasis, aided by the show’s set – housed inside a vast warehouse was a golden field of linen, with each fine stem actually constructed from paper-thin metal.

“The making of nature and the making of man meet, shift, and overlap in a fantasy of industrial nature and natural industrialism made real,” read the show notes. Designer Alessandro Sartori used Zegna’s fully traceable Oasi Linen – which is ever so soft in construction – to create strong tailoring. Whether it be relaxed trousers that bounced playfully as the models walked, button-less polo knitted shirts or lightweight, elongated blazers in earthly hues, the collection was a glorious continuation of Sartori’s elegantly relaxed vision for the brand. “Now that our reformed vocabulary has been established, it is the moment to focus on how items are or can be used, on the singular ways they mold to individual personalities,” said the designer.

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