Brioni Menswear Autumn 2014

Brioni co-founder Gaetano Savini traveled to Japan in 1963. The historical record exists—it's a small, age-stained diary with scrawled across the cover. When Brioni's current steward, Brendan Mullane, turned up the journal in the house archives, it was like he'd received a sign from above. Mullane has made a habit of retracing the Brioni founders' steps (last season, he replicated their trip to London), and he packed his crew up and took them all to Japan. The result is perhaps the most Japanese collection of ultra-luxury Italian suits ever attempted.