Aspesi

Lawrence Steele described Aspesi’s offer as: “a kind of uniform, but a vast uniform because we have so many categories and we are always adding and developing them.” That uniform analogy is totally on point because many Aspesi pieces are…

Lawrence Steele arrived in Milan during the 1980s as a youngster—he remains gallingly fresh-faced today—and became Franco Moschino’s assistant after an accidental (and tetchy) encounter. Five years later he moved to Prada, before starting…

Lawrence Steele is in an amazing gig that puts him in a tricky position. The gig is amazing because the brief is to progressively evolve Aspesi’s long established canon of highly refined clothing classics: a canon he has been involved in…

At the sprawling Aspesi showroom overlooking Milan, where the label’s fall collection was presented, I had a nice chat with Lawrence Steele about not only the collection, but also the label’s ethos, and the importance of tailoring.…