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50 IT / 40 US / Large
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Discover the Tom Ford Black Iconic Pure Cotton-Velvet Windsor Jacket, a piece that draws a direct line back to the most culturally charged chapter in Tom Ford's career. Black velvet in the Windsor cut carries an authority that is difficult to overstate: the pure cotton pile absorbs light rather than reflecting it, giving the jacket a depth that reads as almost formal in its seriousness while remaining entirely outside the conventional black-tie vocabulary. The notch lapels are the detail that makes this jacket genuinely rare, velvet jackets of this character almost universally presented with shawl or peak lapels, and the choice of notch introduces a deliberate restraint that paradoxically makes the garment feel more confident rather than less. Large flap pockets give the front a substantial, grounded quality, and the Windsor fit provides the broad, chest-forward silhouette that commands a room without requiring the wearer to work for it. Five functioning buttonholes finish the sleeve in the Tom Ford manner, the lowest extended into that half-T form that has become one of the house's most quietly recognisable signatures, while mother of pearl buttons engraved with Tom Ford on the reverse complete a jacket where the private details are considered as carefully as the public ones.
Tom Ford's time at Gucci between 1994 and 2004 produced some of the most viscerally compelling menswear of the late twentieth century, and this jacket carries that DNA unmistakably: the velvet, the colour, the silhouette all echo a period when Ford was redefining what masculine luxury could look and feel like. What fewer people know is that the jacket was made in Italy by Ermenegildo Zegna, the Biella cloth and tailoring house that has manufactured Tom Ford's tailored pieces since the brand's inception. It is a collaboration that makes considerable sense: Zegna's mastery of cloth and construction providing the technical foundation upon which Ford's vision is built, the two houses producing together something that neither would arrive at alone.
Composition: 100% Cotton Velvet
Color: Black
Pattern: Plain
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Sartorial Details

Full Canvas Construction
A sartorial jacket - or coat - needs an interlining that will help give it shape and mold it. Canvas gives the item a tailored and crafted look. In short, it breathes life into it. Purely technical, canvas is made from either horsehair, wool, mohair or camel hair. It could also be a mix of them all, with varying thickness and weight. The canvas is stitched to the jacket, often by hand, thus making the canvas pieces 'floating' in the middle of the inner and outer cloth. This gives the jacket added flexibility. The canvas runs from the upper parts, all the way down to the end of the jacket. After you wear your canvassed suit for a while, it will begin to take your shape and look incredibly natural.

Roped Shoulders
A roped shoulder - or sleeve - head describes the bumped shape or ridge of the sleeve’s attachment to the shoulder. The higher it is, the more imposing the shoulder line appears. This can often be found in iconic British tailoring.

Long Milanese Buttonhole
The elegant, longer brother of the Milanese. With its thin and extra long gimp cord inside, this is one of the most challenging buttonholes to make by hand. Even a highly skilled tailor will take about 20 minutes to finish it.

Two-Button Closure
The jacket has a two-button closure which keeps the profile neat.

Barchetta Chest Pocket
The barchetta chest pocket is not only curved and blunted, as in the southern Italian style, but the corner is rounder right off.

Darts
The tailors adds two darts - think of them as pinched seams - to ensure the jacket’s body achieves a slim silhouette. The process, called mezzo punto riprese, is done entirely by hand.

Buttons and Buttonholes
5 functioning horn buttons at the end of the sleeve, with a larger 5th button opening - a quintessential Tom Ford Detail. Even this step, apparently the simplest, is treated with an abundance of detail. Attaching the buttons is a job that requires patience and must be completed to perfection.

Ticket Pocket
The ticket pocket, also known as change pocket, has an old British history. At first it wasn’t even used to store a ticket, as the name indicates today. It became useful before the huge popularity of the railroad, as it was placed on the jackets of equestrians who needed quick access to coins at toll points. Allowing gentlemen to keep their jackets buttoned, this exterior pocket held cash in an extremely convenient way. Ticket pockets were a staple on men’s sturdy country suits before they adapted into the urban suits men wore to commute on a daily basis.


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50 IT / 40 US / Large

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