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New York-based brand Ports 1961 made a move to Milan
this week, where creative directors, Fiona Cibani and
Ian Hylton debuted the Ports 1961 Menswear Collection
at Milano Moda Uomo. Unlike the Ports 1961 women’s
collection that is primarily manufactured in China, the
Ports menswear line is made exclusively in Italy, “Right
down to the handmade leather gloves,” says Hylton, who
was formerly the fashion editor of Flare, designer at
Arnold Brant and men’s fashion director at Holt Renfrew.
“Milan is still the true home of menswear.”
Taking classical sculpture as their central influence,
Cibani and Hylton created an intimate luxurious line of
menswear staples, using advanced fabrics and the finest
Italian tailoring.
Just as the artist’s first sketch gives rise to a great work of
art, and as the sculptor must chip away at the block of
stone to reveal the hidden figure within, so the forms of
Ports 1961 menswear have been born. These are
clothes molded to the man and sculpted like a second
skin. The collection is for the self-aware urban gladiator,
a man who chooses pure and noble materials to express
his inner nature, a man who needs his clothes to be
tough and ready for action, but relaxed and comfortable
when he rests. This collection reflects the
quintessentially modern need to maintain an enduring
classicism in today’s world.
The mood is über-masculine and fueled by the spirit of
the renaissance, inspired in turn by classical art with its
values of everlasting beauty, perfect proportion and
harmony. Ports 1961, updates that mood with an
exquisite freshness and a sophisticated contemporary
feel. This season, Ports 1961’s menswear throws down
the gauntlet to declare: from now on, only the best of
everything...is good enough.
this week, where creative directors, Fiona Cibani and
Ian Hylton debuted the Ports 1961 Menswear Collection
at Milano Moda Uomo. Unlike the Ports 1961 women’s
collection that is primarily manufactured in China, the
Ports menswear line is made exclusively in Italy, “Right
down to the handmade leather gloves,” says Hylton, who
was formerly the fashion editor of Flare, designer at
Arnold Brant and men’s fashion director at Holt Renfrew.
“Milan is still the true home of menswear.”
Taking classical sculpture as their central influence,
Cibani and Hylton created an intimate luxurious line of
menswear staples, using advanced fabrics and the finest
Italian tailoring.
Just as the artist’s first sketch gives rise to a great work of
art, and as the sculptor must chip away at the block of
stone to reveal the hidden figure within, so the forms of
Ports 1961 menswear have been born. These are
clothes molded to the man and sculpted like a second
skin. The collection is for the self-aware urban gladiator,
a man who chooses pure and noble materials to express
his inner nature, a man who needs his clothes to be
tough and ready for action, but relaxed and comfortable
when he rests. This collection reflects the
quintessentially modern need to maintain an enduring
classicism in today’s world.
The mood is über-masculine and fueled by the spirit of
the renaissance, inspired in turn by classical art with its
values of everlasting beauty, perfect proportion and
harmony. Ports 1961, updates that mood with an
exquisite freshness and a sophisticated contemporary
feel. This season, Ports 1961’s menswear throws down
the gauntlet to declare: from now on, only the best of
everything...is good enough.
By Qianna Smith
POSTED January 21, 2011
MEN'S RUNWAY
Fiona Cibani & Ian Hylton Debut PORTS 1961
Menswear Collection at Milano Moda Uomo
Menswear Collection at Milano Moda Uomo
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