This winter, tweed is back with a vengeance in men’s wardrobes, demonstrating its modernity.
At the latest Men’s Fashion Weeks in Paris, Milan and London, tweed was all over the catwalks. To shape a man’s silhouette HermèsVéronique Nichanian plays with it without false modesty. To give relief to the modernist costumes of Dior, Kim Jones takes hold of it. And who better to magnify it than Simon Holloway at Dunhill? The “Eclectic Grandpa” fever to which TikTok has succumbed to praise the classic style will not hinder the comeback of this casually elegant fabric. For tweed cannot hide its rustic nature. Appreciated in the countryside as early as the 18th centurye century, this weatherproof weave belongs to the category of heavy fabrics, weighing between 600 and 800 g/m. There are all kinds: Donegal from Ireland, Saxony from Germany, Shetland from Denmark, herringbone, check, houndstooth… First seen in cities in the 1950s, it was reformed in modern metropolises, with their well-heated offices, in the 1980s. Freed from…
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