This is a house whose defining piece, the unlined K jacket, is about lightness: a garment that imparts a sense of physical freedom while belying its appearance of formality. Freedom might be the headline, but formality remains very much a key part of Boglioli’s inherent tension. So, dropping into the sweltering Boglioli Pitti stand today, it was semi-shocking to see so much apparently uncontrolled color.
This was achieved by double-dipping garment-dye processes applied to white wool jackets, a method that created multiple color dialectics that literally split at the seams. Other bold additions to the Boglioli vocabulary included the addition of grosgrain piping to outrageously light pants and jackets, among them the brand’s excellent new (covered last season) riff on the workwear shirt.
This lookbook was shot in Boglioli’s factory in Gambara, a choice that interestingly emphasized how industrially produced luxury goods can retain a visibly analog hand. The architecture of suiting deformalized via the chaos of conflicting color was the key point in a collection that should appeal to free spirits whose circumstances demand they are at least apparently conventional souls.