Gianfranco Ferre

Gianfranco Ferre trained as an architect before turning to fashion, and the structural intelligence of that formation never left him. Where other designers worked from drape and intuition, Ferre worked from geometry, constructing garments the way a building is constructed, from the inside out. The white shirt was his obsession, a laboratory through which he explored proportion, collar architecture, and the relationship between volume and restraint. When he was appointed artistic director of Christian Dior in 1989, he brought his rigour to the house’s own foundations and produced some of the most architecturally assured haute couture of the late twentieth century. Pre-loved Gianfranco Ferre carries the precision of a designer who understood that fashion, at its most serious, is engineering.