Ilan Chetrite, the founder and artistic director of Sandro Homme, says he has been dressing the same way for a decade. Likewise, the Sandro base—and it is huge—relies on the brand for clothes that look good without going so far as to suggest they’ve just descended from a runway somewhere.
You don’t change a winning recipe. For fall, Sandro reached into its sartorial lexicon and came up with a handful of bourgeois favorites—Prince of Wales check, houndstooth, and tweed revisited with a seasonal patina. Trousers were easier, slightly shorter, and slightly more flared than in the recent past. Seasonal flourishes came in graphic shirts in desert colors, illustrations seemingly extrapolated from statues on the Arc de Triomphe, and workwear-inspired pieces. Chetrite is not one to spin wild tales out of thin air. If he likes a fabric, he uses it, and there were plenty of handsome overcoats, aviators, sweaters, suits, and shirts that urban guys will be happy enough to make their own. With a new brand concept opening on Rue Saint Honoré in the coming months, Sandro men (and women) will have a whole new place to do that.
