MADE IN VENICE JACKET BY BARENA
Barena Venezia double-breasted jacket made in Italy, the brand is distinguished by refined taste and quality fabrics. Unstructured jacket with patch pockets. Lightweight, garment-dyed linen poplin, button closure and loose fit, plain ribbed pattern.
CHARACTERISTICS
THE BRAND
Barena Venezia, a small, family-owned company has significantly influenced the way men and women dress in and outside of Italy over the past twenty-seven years. Before “sprezzatura” and “soft tailoring” became go-to terms for fashion editors, Barena was showing men how to dress casually and with class utilizing sartorial fabrics for rather sporty, workwear garments. Barena maintains the fabric-first ethos it was founded upon. Pigozzo and Francesca Zara build each collection from the ground up, starting by looking for interesting materials and then basing their designs off the fabrics they find, often using original early 20th century patterns from the now rich brand archive. “The main concept comes from the past, in the 19th century where the workwear dress code was:‘elegance even when we are working the land.’ In fact countrymen were working the land wearing three-piece suits: blazer, pants and a vest called a “panciotto,’” Francesca Zara said. “I find it difficult to characterize the collection any more than that: it’s not sporty, not classic, not casual it’s a mix of all of them,” Pigozzo said.
