Among the basic collections, dedicated to tennis, leisure time and the sea. For men, the tennis collection offers as its key model the polo shirt Rieti, with side band of a slightly shaded colour, united to the classic Sorino shorts. A woman who likes to play tennis, on the other hand, wears micro-fibre clothes which accompany and silhouette the figure with a motif of contrast profiled lines. The Zerba coat, in full zip version and with ball holding side zips, matching the Zocca trousers with total side opening, with net insert in the inside front area for better transpiration in sports activities.  Also very wide is the women’s assortment of t-shirts, tops, skirts and dresses with soft lines, in blue, white and light purple.

For leisure time, fabrics go freshly from linen to cotton, tied in with delicate chromatics which tend towards the light green, ice, sand, khaki and tobacco. In the spirit of a natural life style, the clothes reveal themselves in double functionality, to adapt to the requirements of who wears them and weather conditions. Among the novelties, the female jacket Poesia, which becomes a borsa a tracolla, owing to the flexible design and 100% cotton fabric which does not fold or wear; the Crema skirt, on the other hand, with side zips, transforms owing to the total opening, from tight to wide.

The Mare collection is based on full bodied swimming suits, bikinis, tops, shorts and light dresses: colours are bright and lively, from fuchsia to sky blue, whereas the silhouettes rediscover retrò models like seventies geometric designs, from the neon effect, optical or stripy. A few examples: the Luras top with American style fastening, the Ustica dress with vintage impact design, and long men’s boxer shorts, like the Calvi, Buttrio and Cagno models, examples of a male sea fashion with classic «made in Italy» style.

April.2002

Ellesse