Creative freedom and modernity in the contradictions of the Juxtapositions of lines, materials and colours: these are the dominant Features of the ermanno scervino men’s collection ss 2013.

“I created this collection, thinking out how it could be freely combined, for a man who has the courage to dare striking contrasts without becoming a fashion victim, while retaining the hallmark harmony of my style.”

A play of unusual combinations and contrasts applied to the shapes, the materials and the colours. Perfectly ironed tailored jackets, slim-fitting with slender revers, are combined with pants made of textured fabrics with a used look, characterised by special washes, or by low-waisted cargo models in garment-dyed canvas.

Jackets in technical fabric with – sometimes crumpled – organza finish are paired with pants of chinos tailored style, but with a crease. The reversible concept for jackets is developed using technical fabrics either in cotton/linen in shades of blue or in mat-weave cotton/ramie blend in natural shades.

The Scervino man also wears unusual suits in which the shirt – in jeans-shade chambray or stretch Oxford – plays the role of jacket and is matched with pants in the same fabric. The biker-style jacket is made of raw linen knitted in linen stitch; the trench coats and military blazers are in garment-dyed canvas.

The crumpled and ironed concepts re-emerge in the shirts range too, showcasing prints and embroideries and embellished by buttons with aged-silver finish or mother-of-pearl snap buttons. They are made of super-light, “worn” effect muslin, of micro-stripe stretch cotton, or of linen chambray in plain powder-blue tones, or striped or with chequered designs, even mixed, enhanced by darn-style embroideries.

The new knit t-shirts are proposed in mohair with a double-plait effect in jersey with a super-light weft in shades of aqua green, powder blue and flesh, or made of cashmere in natural shades of sand. The knitwear is made of ultralight, almost impalpable yarns such as linen mixed with steel or garment-dyed silk that mould themselves to the body; alternatively in chunkier yarns, knitted in micro moss stitch for the linen-steel, in irregular cables for the raw linen, and in fabric stitch for the cotton.

Accessories
The shoes, laced-up English style, two-tone in nappa – white/black, white/brown and white/blue – or in single-shade split leather in the brightest colours, are subjected to a special wash treatment to obtain a slight melding of the colours. Two-tone stretch straw hats, work bags and micro-boule chain bracelets round off the collection.

Colours
Blue shades steal the limelight: from sugar bag blue to the pale blue of washed-out jeans through to midnight blue, which we also find matched with military green. Another important role is played by natural shades such as white, off-white and sand, combined with softer variants, sometimes vintage such as aqua green, powder blue and flesh.

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