Do not let yourself be impressed even if a hint of apprehension invades any man about to enter Smalto.
It is true that this house, recognized for its art of great measure and its entirely handmade costumes, is famous for dressing heads of state, ministers, personalities of the 7th art.
The guestbook looks like a festival: yesterday, Roger Moore, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Marcello Mastroianni, then Jean Dujardin, Lambert Wilson, Vincent Cassel or Michael Madsen.
When the young Calabrian Francesco Smalto launched his own label in 1962, rue La Boétie, he had in mind
“to dress men and help them relentlessly to forge their own style”
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Everything is clear and obvious.
Fireworks are subject to quotas.
The suit in its clear line version.
The fabrics are impeccable.
The silhouette is above all the shoulder: that of Smalto is famous. Rolled up, but not too much, structured without being austere and, above all, terribly comfortable.
For sixty years, the idea of…
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