Forms are closer to the body, more contained. Menswear is revisited by accentuating shapes, seeking the whiteness of sailor uniforms, mixing the familiarity of sporty colours. The severity of behaviour and of form is underlined, reinterpreted across a range that moves from workwear towards more technical solutions. 

Colour is dominated by blues, in shades suggested by different cultures: Chinese blue and Mediterranean blue; the blue of Persian lacquers, edging towards violet; Genoa blue and indigo. Alongside these, the hues of jute and hemp, signalling reds that verge on the phosphorescent, and wild, enigmatic motifs somewhere between forest imagery and mosaics. 

Materials are full-bodied yet airy, allowing the summer breeze to pass through. Linen printed on the reverse, recalling jute in appearance while remaining light in substance. Worked crêpes. Seersucker obtained from tubular or embossed fabrics. Lightweight viscose, often unlined, for jackets. Openwork knitwear, frequently paired with fabrics that imitate the tricot effect. Leather that appears embossed, wrung, almost crushed. 

A taste for traditional dressing. Small, rounded shapes moulded around the body, yet always relaxed and elongated. Dense, tubular textiles constructed from puffed yarns such as chenille blended with wool crêpe. Rich pinstripes with raised chenille threads in vivid colours. 

Memories of a uniform. Officers of the Baltic fleet, students of the St Petersburg Ballet School, guardsmen, pilots, steelworkers: a masculine vocabulary inherited from discipline and function, reinterpreted and softened through relaxed leisure wear. 

The surprise of colour. Earth and fog, brown and grey. The brilliance of precious tones: cobalt, lapis lazuli, malachite, lacquer red. The same intense notes recur, almost as allegories, in tartans and Prince of Wales checks. 

A lively taste for decoration. A renewed sense of ornament reclaims patterns and motifs with historical resonance, between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Naturally, without excess, imaginative touches appear even in the most sober wardrobe: iridescent jacquard linings that lend opulence to pinstriped jackets. Small checks and Prince of Wales patterns paired with brocades recall the elegance of certain Russian émigrés or turn-of-the-century dandies. Vanity and enduring quality, softened by the patina of time and wear.