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Materials: Inspired by the Mexican riding tradition of Charreria, the collection’s highly-researched and elaborately patchworked materials highlight Etro’s unparalleled expertise in fabric combination.

Intricate leather tooling, for example, is informed by traditional saddlery techniques and is used abundantly acros clothing and accessories. Etro’s signature paisley has literally been branded into aged and waxed leather shirts and jackets, while laser cut leather embroidery creates new, rugged lattice detailing on slim jackets and pants. Western-inspired suede or leather intarsias set fire across the collection, lighting up canvas trench coats, cotton twill pants, or cotton seersucker suits, while chains of metal coins or animal medallions trim pants.

Traditional English fabrications — from sharp pin stripes to a rose cotton-linen twill — cut into the mix, offering a classic balance to Aztec-inspired thread embroidered jersey shirts.

Silhouettes

Sculpted and cut close to the body, the season’s silhouettes are resolutely masculine and exalt a man’s natural shape. Pants adhere to the leg and are crafted from figure-enhancing panels. Intarsia constructions trace the legs and shoulders, creating contours for the body as well as a new rich canvas of surface decoration. Jackets feature a powerful, new padded shoulder, while suede inserts are hand-sewn into cotton pique polo shirts. The Etro men’s suit is always offers an unconventional twist on traditional elements. This season it is cut in three pieces, plastered with intarsias, piped in suede or leather saddle stitching, lined in georgette silk, and layered over an un-done striped shirt.

Prints

Prints this season possess an unstudied, arte-naïf quality, as if drawn by raw hand. A horse print, on shirts and jackets, bears the unfinished semblance of a rough illustration. The paisley is also treated in this new way: as a blurry, black and white pattern that seems to emerge from a sweat-induced mirage, cross pollinated with a classic bandana print, or subtly arising on tone-on-tone woven jersey navy trousers or hot-pressed velvet pants.