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Brioni Bespoke: Bonding with the Best
While one often says that a man need not spend a lot to look like a million bucks, the truth is, it helps. Which is why a suit from Brioni costs an arm and a leg, their range begins from $2000 and may go way up, but there is surely nothing that represents the good life and distinctive individuality like a Brioni.
Brioni Bespoke: Bonding with the Best
While one often says that a man need not spend a lot to look like a million bucks, the truth is, it helps. Which is why a suit from Brioni costs an arm and a leg, their range begins from $2000 and may go way up, but there is surely nothing that represents the good life and distinctive individuality like a Brioni.
Ask Bond, James Bond. Brioni has been dressing Brosnan in all the Bond flicks since 1994. From Savile Row in London, Bond has come all the way to Italy in the last decade to lend his suits a postmodern edge.
Of course, in the world of handcrafted men's suits Savile Row is still the first name that comes to mind, but its influence today is seen in the legacy of those like Nazareno Fonticoli, who helped found the house of Brioni in 1947.
Along with his Roman partner, Gaetano Savini, Fonticoli opened one of the first fashion houses for menswear, and named it after the the Croatian islands of Brijuni (pronounced Brioni), a glamorous golf and polo getaway, haunted by Italian and other European aristocrats in the 1920s and '30s. The two partners recognized a demand for effortless, moneyed elegance in well-heeled men anxious to gloss over the hardships of post-war life, especially the Italians, for whom presenting the bella figura was of prime importance.
