10.31.2007

The Luxe Factor

Jacket £2765 Bottega Veneta.


Jacket £690 Dolce & Gabbana

Jacket £2150 Burberry Prorsum

Fashion is turning up the luxury dial for Autumn, right up to number eleven! Sumptuous worked leather is key here, but so are reptile-skin textures, elaborately patterned fabrics and sheeny pieces in precious metal colours.

Bottega Veneta menswear arrives at Harvey Nichols for the first time bringing with it a rich mustard leather bomber, quilted to give an almost animal skin effect. BV Designer Thomas Maier knows how to do luxury and wearability in the right measures and so too does Burberry's golden boy Christopher Bailey who adds a sumptuous touch to military and work-a-day styles. He too quilts a leather jacket for a billionaire biker look.

Dries Van Noten, fashion's pattern king, prints his shirts with rococo golden swirls reminiscent of Gianni Versace in his luxe-loving heyday while Dolce & Gabbana's eveningwear is like shimmering liquid metal.

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