Nicolas Ripoll by Robert Pollidori for Bottega Veneta Fall 2011 Campaign

An image emerges from Bottega Veneta’s gorgeous fall 2011 campaign, featuring Nicolas Ripoll photographed by Robert Pollidori.

Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Tim Blanks review

Anyone who still imagines fashion remains willfully oblivious to current events would probably be surprised to learn that Tomas Maier was inspired by 2011's Arab Spring, when he conceived the latest men's collection for Bottega Veneta. The Arab world's pursuit of democracy got him thinking about the integration of different sartorial traditions in a way that was about genuine synthesis, rather than banal ethnic influences. By the time they reached the catwalk, Maier's creative impulses had been well and truly sublimated. A casual overview might suggest that relatively conventional two-piece tailoring ruled (even if the suits were crumpled). Still, a residue of the Great Elsewhere lingered in the unplaceability of a number of the clothes, neither Middle East nor Midwest, but with an undertow of both. The buttoned-up-tight mandarin-collared jackets and matching pants had a military mien—add sunglasses, a general's cap, and a hundred kilos, and you'd have yourself a best-dressed dictator. That control was contrasted with a shopping list of fabric treatments: washing, creasing, over-printing, over-dyeing, dip-dyeing. Checks were bleared like they'd been hand-blocked. A tweed was really a printed cotton. Just a fashion illusion, but here it poked as much as it pleased.

Maier never really lets go. Even the peculiar denim and leather breakout he allowed himself today was pinpoint-precise. Will BV men be thinking of the Arab Spring when they're shopping this time next year? Unlikely. But Maier's abstract inspiration actually did yield a hint of out of control that his customers may find refreshing come Spring 2012.

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Bottega Veneta Fall/Winter 2011-2012

Tim Blanks review

The music for Bottega Veneta today featured an ominous David Lynch soundtrack, which amplified the dark, undone mood of the collection. ("Austere," the press notes called it.) Tomas Maier really had another director in mind, though—the Italian Michelangelo Antonioni, who started out in monochrome neorealism before introducing startling Technicolor into his repertoire in the classic Red Desert. That was kind of the order of things with the clothes the designer showed.

Maier too started with monochrome: dark wool suits, the fabric textured, distressed-looking, the jacket lapels turned up and doubled by the addition of a lapel scarf; trousers tucked loosely into ankle boots; shirts untucked. The first impression was raw. One jacket zipped open across a horizontal center seam, coming apart. Then came the shots of Technicolor: eye-popping orange-red or gemstone green cords, a bright blue duffel, a trench in that red shade.

Maier accepts that the fundamentals of men's fashion don't change that much. "To evolve, you have to reinvent what you already have," he says. One way he does that is by injecting character into his clothes. His men somehow seem like archetypes, never more so than the leather-clad guys who strode down his catwalk today. A washed-leather trench even had a sinister edge. So did an evening jacket in inky velvet. That's Maier's almost cinematic power of suggestion.

Something else that Maier understands is desire. In this collection, the lightness, the lack of obvious structure, the way a cardigan might be layered casually over a jacket implied freedom from restrictions of all kinds. And that's the kind of reinvention many men would crave.

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Wishlist - Bottega Veneta nero calf canvas ankle boots

Bottega Veneta nero calf canvas ankle boots (Spring/Summer 2011 collection)

Bottega Veneta Fall/Winter 2010/2011 Menswear Collection

Urban grunge is taken to another level with Bottega Veneta's menswear collection for the next fall. With lots of color and fun through the combination of items in every outfit, this line is prepared to go from the runway into the streets.








The “Venetian atelier” meaning Bottega Veneta is one of Italy's greatest fashion labels well known for their luxurious leather goods. With a history since 1966, this brand started with artisanal leather goods and soon the company managed to find its way to a unique signature for the label.

What started at first as a local leather goods company is now a world wide extended one with stores and boutiques in major European countries with a high level developed in fashion like Italy, France, United Kingdom, Russia, or Asian ones like Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore or India and last but not least in America's biggest cities like fashion capital New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Beverly Hills or San Francisco.



With an endless creativity and a strong point of view, Bottega Veneta's fashion designer, Tomas Maier takes a step ahead and comes out with fun youthful pieces inspired by today's modern trends and street style in men's fashion. Making works of art walk down the runway, Maier prepares for Bottega Veneta the most amazing looks from head-to-toe that mix together futuristic, vintage and modern in the same time.

The chromatic theme chosen in Bottega Veneta's Fall/Winter 2010/2011 season accentuates the freedom in their urban casual chic style. We have colors like imperial blue-purple, arsenic, gray-asparagus, sapphire, royal purple, chocolate brown, pure black and coral red.


The main trends that rise out from Bottega Veneta's Fall 2010 Ready-To-Wear Menswear Collection are seen through details that accentuate the looks like: string ties, leather pants, maxi luggage-bag, biker boots, sportswear jackets, V-neck shirts, leather gloves, one-shoulder messenger bags, colored leather jackets, suit blazers with baggy jeans, low cut printed formal pants, pop colored blazers or brogues with long white socks.





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