Limonaia in Villa Vittoria celebrated the launch of Save the Duck luxury capsule collection Recycle, with an exclusive event in partnership with the British designer Christopher Raeburn.

Recycle is a menswear project featuring transformation and adaptation along with recycling and technology, crucial elements of life that become fundamental even at an ‘urban’ level. A vision, according to Raeburn and Save the Duck, for sustainability and respect for natural cycles.

To do as nature does; imitating it becomes a credible tactic for metropolitan living, taking protection from the weather in the style that has always characterised Save the Duck with layering of garments, heat sealing techniques and the use of high-performance recycled fabrics such as the Plumtech padding, which has always been used as a feather substitute in Save the Duck apparel.

Raeburn’s typical military recycling becomes about camouflaging and travel: patchwork, in all the various types of camouflage, creates a down jacket without the down, a garment that has never used animal-based fibres in line with the ‘animal friendly’ ethic central to Save the Duck.

For the summer 2017 season, Kris Van Assche has appointed a new generation of inspired characters to channel the dynamic energy of his Dior homme vision. Each plays a unique part in the summer 2017 “do it yourself” inflected wardrobe fashion campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo in the studio and the streets of Paris, France.

The international cast of four distinct characters sees the return of American Rapper A$ap Rocky, a global phenomenon whose impact on the international music scene is matched only by his innate sense of personal style. Disrupting the bold elegance of his previous campaign appearance, Rocky takes to the streets of Paris wearing the season’s dark floral patchwork by Japanese artist Toru Kamei. Celebrating a very different chapter of music history is British new romantics boy George, who models raw-edge harness tailoring and Toru Kamei souvenir badges with his own distinct brand of blitz kid pop panache. American actor Rami Malek (of Mr. Robot fame) brings a sober, cinematic edge to the series, pictured in a sequence of colour studio portraits featuring artisanal eyelet and lace-up outerwear pieces. Finally, images of model Ernest Klimko complete the portfolio with a direct visual link to the ‘fun fair’ scenography of the summer 2017 runway show, representing the radical fashion vision of Kris van Assche for Dior homme that balances heritage tailoring with a utopian sense of refined grunge.