Loro Piana Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear

Amidst the milling crowd popping canapes around Loro Piana’s static and featureless mannequins, this presentation contained a jewel. Two gloved custodians stood by a table on which rested this fabric-founded house’s first-ever sample book, from the spring/summer 1926 season. A double breasted suit in the atrium of Loro Piana’s presentation space (just next to the Corriere Della Sera office) had been crafted from a new remix of the house’s very first run, a subtly-striped charcoal wool. Alongside that book was this season’s equivalent, the star swatch of which looked like the kaleidoscopically color-accented dotty Donegal whose wool base had been delicately seasoned with polyamide to give it the lightness and durability today’s LP customers rightly expect. As ever, the house’s design teams leant into multiple categories of classicism to shape a collection dedicated to showcasing the quality of its ingredients. Silk cashmere brocades, buttons, and hat pins were all patterned with the thistle flower that both represents the house and which is central to its processing of some of the world’s finest cashmeres.