{"id":5532,"date":"2017-09-29T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanieri.com\/blog\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2023-03-27T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:51:56","slug":"giovanni-agnellis-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanieri.com\/en\/giovanni-agnellis-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianni Agnelli’s style: suits, ties and watches of an Italian icon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giovanni “Gianni” Agnelli was an important Italian industrialist, Fiat chairman\u00a0and, according to many at the time, the Italian John Kennedy. He was handsome, rich, a sports enthusiast,\u00a0loved by women, L\u2019Avvocato was a tabloid favorite, a symbol of Italian elegance and icon of everything one could ever dream of.<\/p>\n

While he ruled over the Italian economy and European high society between the 1960s and the 1980s, he was admired as much for his entrepreneurial acumen\u00a0as he was for his good taste in style.\u00a0He mastered the art of sprezzatura<\/em>, making the\u00a0hard look so easy and marking history with his style trademarks, such as wearing his watch over his cuff and leaving his tie askew.<\/p>\n

For those who loved him, for those who would like to boost their daily outfit with a touch of elegance, here is a small guide to Italy\u2019s most famous \u201cAvvocato\u201d and some quick tips to dress like him.<\/p>\n

The tailored suit<\/h2>\n

Mr Agnelli particularly liked formal wear and had hundreds of suits tailored<\/a><\/strong> by the best tailors in the world. He opted for su misura<\/em> (made-to-measure) on situations demanding a more conventional and rigorous dress code, but also on more informal and casual occasions. What are the garments he couldn\u2019t do without? Here they are.<\/p>\n

The classic flannel grey suit and its double-breasted jacket with super-wide lapels, a typical winter garment, the single-breasted solaro suit<\/a><\/strong>, for summer occasions, and prince of Wales jackets<\/a><\/strong> to be worn all year long.<\/p>\n

The Style Advisor tip: Grey flannel suit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The button-down shirt<\/h2>\n

When he was younger, Gianni Agnelli wore classic spread collar shirts<\/a><\/strong> and angled cuffs. Yet in the mid-Seventies, he started to be photographed wearing different shirts. White and blue were its favorite shades and he mainly opted for unbuttoned button-down collars. He was indeed the first to bring the recognizable Brooks Brothers shirts to Italy from the USA. He rarely wore stripe, check or bright-in-color shirts.<\/p>\n

The Style Advisor tip: Light blue button-down shirt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The accessories<\/h2>\n

One man, thousand shades of style. Sometimes he dressed for vanity, sometimes he had to make an authentic choice, but it was not a mere style choice. Take his hiking boots worn with his elegant suits. Due to an accident he had in the French Riviera, L\u2019Avvocato had to wear uncomfortable braces and orthopedic socks for the whole of his life.<\/p>\n

Think of the flat dark or light brown hiking boots which allowed him to reduce discomfort while walking. Even the watch over his shirt cuff<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0probably his most recognizable style quirk, wasn\u2019t just an eccentric aesthetic choice: the aim was to preserve the quality of his cuff\u00a0fabric and to save time when checking the time.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0sportswear<\/h2>\n

He was a sportswear enthusiast, probably because of the people he met in the United States when he was young. He usually spent his weekends in destinations such as Cape Code along with the upper class living there. Those preppy clothes, chinos<\/a><\/strong> and polo shirts, persuaded him to develop his own view of the sporty elegant style.<\/p>\n

Jeans are typical of the sportier Agnelli. He wore them on board, on the pitch and at the stadium. In the Seventies he started alternating the cuts and the materials: he initially wore slim-fit jeans, popular in the Seventies, then he opted for looser-fit jeans, usually Levi\u2019s 501. He usually paired them with piqu\u00e9-cotton long-sleeved polo shirts<\/a><\/strong> or denim shirts.<\/p>\n

The Style Advisor tip: Denim light blue shirt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

His style trademarks<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s not much to say, L\u2019Avvocato broke all the rules. The watch over his shirt cuff, the tie outside of his pullover, the sporty boots worn with his formal suit, the wide necktie, popular with the Duke of Windsor: these are all the style details that made Gianni Agnelli a worldwide style icon.<\/p>\n

The Style Advisor tip: Regimental green necktie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He was rich, smart, loved by women and admired by rivals: here is how “L’Avvocato” (the lawyer) has become a worldwide style icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[8],"yoast_head":"\nGianni Agnelli's style: suits, ties and watches of an Italian icon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A vast number of tailored suits, the watch on the cuff, his Brooks Brothers shirts, the tie outside of his pullover: here is how \u201cL\u2019Avvocato\u201d (the lawyer, nickname of Govanni "Gianni" Agnelli) has become a worldwide style icon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lanieri.com\/en\/giovanni-agnellis-style\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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