Ermenegildo Zegna Black Trofeo-Wool Vintage Milanese-Style Tuxedo
56 IT / 46 US / Extra Extra Large
Curator's Description
Curator's DescriptionDiscover the Ermenegildo Zegna Black Trofeo Wool Vintage Milanese Tuxedo. Trofeo wool in black for a tuxedo is a choice that operates at the level where the fibre's qualities become the garment's character: the long-staple Australian superfine merino that Zegna's own mill selects for the Trofeo weave produces a cloth with a surface so even and fine that it takes black with a depth and consistency that lesser wools cannot achieve, the colour sitting in the fabric rather than on it, the face of the cloth presenting as a single, unbroken tone that changes only when the light catches its surface at an angle and reveals the quality of what is underneath. Against this the peak lapels are faced in silk, the contrast between the wool's fine matte body and the silk's reflective surface providing the tuxedo's fundamental visual logic in its most refined form, the two materials reading as a single black from across a room and separating into their distinct characters only on approach.
The configuration is unmistakably Milanese and unmistakably of its era. The double breasted closure sits low along the belly, the button stance dropping to the point that the lapels sweep in a long, wide arc from the high gorge to the fastening, the silhouette carrying the authority of 1980s Milanese formal dressing in its most complete expression, a proportion that required both confidence in the cloth and confidence in the man wearing it. The jacket is cut ventless, the back presenting as a single uninterrupted plane that preserves the Trofeo's drape without the break a vent would introduce, the hem falling cleanly all the way around. Jetted pockets sit flush against the front, the openings finished without flap or welt in the manner correct for evening dress, the front reading as an unbroken surface from shoulder to hem. The trousers are cut wide and straight with a double pleat at the rise, the generous leg falling from the pleat to the floor in the full, unrushed manner of the period, the silhouette belonging entirely to the decade that understood the double breasted tuxedo as the senior form of evening dress and dressed accordingly.
Ermenegildo Zegna made tuxedos for the men who attended the openings at La Scala and the dinners that followed. In Trofeo wool with silk peak lapels and the Milanese configuration of its era, this one still knows exactly where it belongs.
Materials
MaterialsComposition: 100% Wool
Color: Black
Pattern: Plain
Measurements
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