Pitti Uomo, the twice-yearly men’s wear event in Florence, Italy, is full of suits. But few at Pitti’s latest installment in June contained as many multitudes as the suit Quentin Thrash was wearing on the sweltering Thursday we met, when local temperatures neared triple digits.
Combining a double breasted jacket with flared pants, bright colors with dark shades and stripes with gingham, his suit looked both fresh and nostalgic. It was the type of ensemble that seemed as likely to have been bought off the rack as to have been assembled with items from a vintage store.
Turns out, he had made the suit himself. Mr. Thrash, 36, designs a line of (mostly custom) clothes and accessories called Thrash Bespoke, and had come from Los Angeles to Pitti partly to promote it. “L.A.’s a very casual place,” he said. “People wear a lot of sweatpants and flip-flops and Crocs and things like that. And I like to set the bar high.”
Mr. Thrash, who grew up in Georgia, said that as a designer, he leaned into mixing and matching patterns and colors. “Just kind of doing unorthodox things in men’s wear,” as he put it. “If you look at my outfit, it’s very traditional, it’s very traditional tailoring,” he said. “But the bell bottom, the flared pants,” he added, “have a Western pocket on the back of them. It’s like, there are a lot of details that I incorporate into my designs that you don’t really see on a lot of custom suits.”
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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