Briatore's Wedding
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:33 pm
As many of you will know from the news or from gossip (both of which I quite repudiate, in fact, but I admit both are aspects one might have live with in order to be in society) that Flavio Briatore, the managing director of the Renault formula one team, has recently married the Italian model and beauty Elisabetta Gregoraci. Well I noticed something on the news an almost absolute absence of elegance in the people who attended the wedding, I thought I might comment it here and put it as an example of the profound decadence in which ‘classic’ and elegant clothing is going through.
Most of the men attending the wedding wore dark blue, dark grey or black suits. However a few did opt for the morning coat, including the groom himself: http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4812/0/1/
He wore a magnificently cut morning coat with stylish dark red inner lining, and worn (as one always should) with matching black trousers and waistcoat. Just in case anyone didn’t notice I was exercising Anglo-Saxon ironic humour. What else to say but that the tie is badly tied, the coat is definitely not bespoke nor MTM, and if it is he should get his money back, as his sleeves are way too short, his armholes too thick, the shoulders too big, the lapels too wide… But the worst of it all is definitely the waistcoat… I won’t list the number of wrong things on it (the high-v-front horrible mixture, terrible lapels…), as it’s shorter to say simply that it would probably look better without it (even if it is wrong to not wear one with a morning coat).
Thanks god that at least there was a man of clothing in the wedding to teach the rest, Luciano Benetton: http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4812/0/5/
The problem is that his lesson is the wrong way round: what he wore teaches one what one must not do when wearing a morning coat. Although he does look better than Briatore, as his jacket does seem to be properly tailored and fits, and he wears striped pants and a grey waistcoat. However the trousers are too long, the waistcoat doesn’t look at all like a formal one, but more like the kind of waistcoat one might wear under an odd jacket. Although he wears a wing collar, as most men would do with a morning coat in the interwar period, he ties a bowtie under it, and in fact a black one as for black tie. But this is for sure Benetton’s response to the modern way of life full of speed, in which one doesn’t have time to change from the morning dress to black tie as it was done at weddings back in the good old days, and has invented a perfect hybrid.
The Spanish formula one driver Fernando Alonso and the manager of England’s nation football team, Fabio Capello, as sportsmen that they are, look completely inelegant in their suits. Perhaps the only man in the whole wedding who dressed elegantly was Spain’s ex-president, Jose Maria Aznar, who wore a discrete navy blue suit with a white shirt a light blue necktie and black shoes, the suit fitting perfectly the shirt looking impeccable and the necktie rightly tied: http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4812/0/4/
It is a shame that the rich and the famous, who have the money to dress elegantly and the power to show it to the masses, have such a bad taste these days.
Most of the men attending the wedding wore dark blue, dark grey or black suits. However a few did opt for the morning coat, including the groom himself: http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4812/0/1/
He wore a magnificently cut morning coat with stylish dark red inner lining, and worn (as one always should) with matching black trousers and waistcoat. Just in case anyone didn’t notice I was exercising Anglo-Saxon ironic humour. What else to say but that the tie is badly tied, the coat is definitely not bespoke nor MTM, and if it is he should get his money back, as his sleeves are way too short, his armholes too thick, the shoulders too big, the lapels too wide… But the worst of it all is definitely the waistcoat… I won’t list the number of wrong things on it (the high-v-front horrible mixture, terrible lapels…), as it’s shorter to say simply that it would probably look better without it (even if it is wrong to not wear one with a morning coat).
Thanks god that at least there was a man of clothing in the wedding to teach the rest, Luciano Benetton: http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4812/0/5/
The problem is that his lesson is the wrong way round: what he wore teaches one what one must not do when wearing a morning coat. Although he does look better than Briatore, as his jacket does seem to be properly tailored and fits, and he wears striped pants and a grey waistcoat. However the trousers are too long, the waistcoat doesn’t look at all like a formal one, but more like the kind of waistcoat one might wear under an odd jacket. Although he wears a wing collar, as most men would do with a morning coat in the interwar period, he ties a bowtie under it, and in fact a black one as for black tie. But this is for sure Benetton’s response to the modern way of life full of speed, in which one doesn’t have time to change from the morning dress to black tie as it was done at weddings back in the good old days, and has invented a perfect hybrid.
The Spanish formula one driver Fernando Alonso and the manager of England’s nation football team, Fabio Capello, as sportsmen that they are, look completely inelegant in their suits. Perhaps the only man in the whole wedding who dressed elegantly was Spain’s ex-president, Jose Maria Aznar, who wore a discrete navy blue suit with a white shirt a light blue necktie and black shoes, the suit fitting perfectly the shirt looking impeccable and the necktie rightly tied: http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4812/0/4/
It is a shame that the rich and the famous, who have the money to dress elegantly and the power to show it to the masses, have such a bad taste these days.
