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From October through November Fall it’s at its most beautiful state outside of New York City, wether it be to Upstate New York or New Jersey. I partnered up with Knotty Vines this month to find the perfect weekend or even one day getaway from the city, let me let you in a little secret, the Chardonnay from Knotty Vines its the perfect wine to take in this beautiful trip to indulge your tastebuds, the delicious citrus flavor and crips body from this which direction each place is, from this point you can take a walk along the river into a park, into the woods or even hike the majestic woods of this grand place. The majestic colors during fall and the ambiance of this beautiful place made it so enjoyable , if you want to read or simply enjoy the sounds of nature I recommend you arrive at least by 12:00pm.

This year Pitti Uomo 96, welcomed many to their playground and we couldn’t be more excited about it, warm weather brings many to this incredible 4 day event, that it can be described as bigger than life, but also more than just the weather. Vendors, buyers, celebrities, designers and many others come together during this 4 days to showcase, sell, preview, buy, and the most important of them all to show case each individual genuine style. This year we saw a mixture of mens sartorial garments, with streetwear galore and to be honest we love it. Fast forward to this year and we saw a mixture of everything, even Mr. Virgil Abloh , in case you been living under a rock and don’t know he is the creative director for Louis Vuitton.

His last collection showed the style of designing Mr. Tisci is used to delight us with, luxury streetwear with a soft but elegant approach to winter and hues of minimalism. He clearly curated a selection for everyone in this ready to wear collection, the brand enthusiast, the fashion forward customer and the high luxury client. Only thing the brand is missing is the long term results as this decade the competition of mega designers or directors creatives is on the rise, only he and the results of the mega house can tell what the future will hold. For now we can clearly tell the company is headed into a brighter future and although to be able to reach the success of other houses like Gucci, Balenciaga and others will take time, with Riccardo aboard Burberry can clearly start looking ahead to a new customer who tends to enjoy Riccardo’s approach and aesthetic to luxury urban fashion.

Ricardo injected the brand D. N.A. with luxury urban wear and revamped their heritage, as his collection displayed noting but great runway and ready to wear pieces. It is clear that Ricardo injected the brand with his craze of luxury urban and exquisite selection of logos and silhouettes into a much needed revamp  and it finally breaths Fashion forward and screams true luxury, as expected. The collection showcased heritage pieces , new street wear , muted colors ,fascinating silhouettes with a very tasteful, playful tailored pieces  and new patterns with animal prints inspiration, as expected like this Bambi shirt that gives you a reminisce of something similar he did at Givenchy. Suiting for mens for me seems to need some work, I can almost assure you that in the upcoming collections this will be something he works on, since it just seems average, slim  and not exciting to me, striped suiting is cool but nothing that screams rebirth of Burberry, perhaps a more relaxed fit suiting, following a more classic reminiscing of the 90s, draped, pleats and oversize.