Tod’s Fall/Winter 2021/2022 Collection

Men’s Collection

A mansion in the countryside - Villa Ronchi in Vigevano, designed in 1936 by Giuseppe De Finetti for the Crespi family. A young actor, Lorenzo Zurzolo, prepares for a role. The collection is revealed through a visual story, a film titled #sevenT. Seven like the days of the week, T for Tod's but also for time.

Creative Director Walter Chiapponi furthers his reinterpretation of the classics, exploring the Tod's lifestyle in contact with nature. Tailoring is seen through a relaxed lens. The artisanal nature of the product is the highest expression of style. Warm, earthy tones are used on tweeds, wools and sturdy cottons that reference a natural camouflage with the landscape.

The elements of this story are the pillars of the wardrobe: the trench coat, the shirt-jacket, the hunting jacket and the field jacket, riding pants, ribbed sweaters, the college sweatshirt. A new meaning is created in the combination of garments: contradicting formality with unexpected combinations. The portrait in the making of an Italian gentleman takes shape, cosmopolitan in his absolute freedom.

The collection finds a strong character in the accessories: robust lace-ups with Norwegian stitching, ankle boots with Texan heels, multi-material sneakers and desert boots with enlarged gommini.

The T is the recurring sign, made of metal and shown on belt buckles and loafers, covered in leather on soft, spacious and deconstructed bags, painstakingly made with minimum cuts, on practical and geometric briefcases with two umbrella or bottle straps.

T for time: an expansion of possibilities, in life and style.

Women’s Collection

Four women move in a modernist space, over floors of splendid marble inlays, in a video that introduces the collection. They are four different characters, or perhaps different personalities of the same woman caught in a single moment: the story, made up of gestures, movements and colours, is fluid.

With the same fluidity of the camera movements, creative director Walter Chiapponi continues to offer other points of view on the Tod’s vocabulary. Exploring manual skiIIs and craftsmanship in an endless quest for enhancement, working on a repertoire of classic garments, he creates new objects, in which archetypes blend. This season, the world of sportswear meets the voluptuous femininity of couture, without sacrificing function and utility. The result is iconic garments with new volumes and unexpected details for all functions and occasions.

The leather-trimmed trench-coats, worn over knitted trousers, are tied at the front with an immediate gesture, or have ruffles at the neck which create shoulder like capes. Shirts have long pussy bows. Quilting and padding run through cropped leather duvet jackets, knee-length dresses and coats draw a sinuous silhouette. Tailoring has a rebellious ease, while sheepskin is used for a coat, but also a hat. Out of scale hats complete the Iooks, evoking an accessory from a past era. The profile of the sunglasses is framed entirely in leather.

Accessories add further points of view. The bags are exaggeratedly large, such as the T Timeless with its raw-cut profile, or others which have enveloping, curved, shapes, made even more evident by the use of sheepskin, shiny leathers, as shown on the Oboe, the softly constructed hobo bag. Decorative flat chains are adorned on the flap of the Kate, a small-shoulder bag, and are also used to replace the shoulder straps. The chunky heeled loafers are bright blocks of colour, the two-tone men’s shoes are fastened by buckles or shaped IiI‹e loafers and have high creeper soles which the rubber gomminos appear on. On the top of the moccasins, the T marks and characterises. The same timeless T returns on belts and bags. Demure pointy shoes with cone-shaped kitten heels are objects of pure design.

A journey within shades of elegance redefines the idea of Italian good taste, with a new edge.