When Melinda Gates appeared on the cover of the December issue of Forbes magazine, she was wearing a dress and jacket by Kiton.
The Naples-based company is best known as a purveyor of fine men’s tailoring, but it is fast expanding its footprint in women’s wear by offering customers the same luxury materials and hand-finishing. Its fall collection was presented on models lounging in three rooms at the brand’s art-filled offices in Milan.
There were coats, jackets and capes made from double-faced cashmere in shades of cream and pink; trouser suits with slim jackets and wider cropped pants; and blouses, skirts and dresses in men’s tie fabrics with colorful geometric motifs.
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The patterned silk twills were also used to line the inside of the season’s new bag, a boxy miniature python-skin style dubbed the “Gina,” after Gina Lollobrigida.
Though the tailored jacket remains Kiton’s bestseller, Maria Giovanna Paone, vice president and creative director of women’s wear, also has her eye on a younger customer.
“The suit, the shirt or the pants can be worn just as easily by a woman of 20 as a woman of 60. It’s how you put them together and the image they project that make the difference,” she explained. “Everything works. Each individual item has its own strong identity.”
Aspiring female leaders take note.