Thom Browne's seerscucker season

In the current fashion design landscape, Thom Browne's is a unique and distinctive voice. This is because, season after season, the New York brand has decided to stay true to its aesthetic biosphere – a universe focused on the male suit that is reinterpreted in its young and preppy nuances that assume from time to time more or less playful variations. For this year's Spring/Summer, the designer's gaze shifts to the Southeast, to New Orleans and the Ivy League colleges, elevating the seersucker fabric, composed of cotton whose threads can boast different tensions, resulting in a curled effect, as the absolute protagonist of the summer.

In the collection, the seersucker fabric becomes a perfect counterpoint to the traditional winter grey wool – a fabric that has charm precisely because it balances formality and disengagement, with a texture, lived, precious but that does not take itself too seriously, as well as linked to the designer's own childhood. The fabric is declined, for Man, in a series of playful, composite and colourful suits with childish and gender-fluid veins, with occasional but daring colour combinations and playful references to the world of sport. A more complex layering defines the collection for Woman, with a build-up of materials and a more marked classic, full of visual references to the nautical world.