Vintage and Gold Collections Autumn-Winter 2008

Vintage

Faithful to that 70s air mixing town and fashion, lean lines and colours, tradition and research; novelties for Vintage too this year.
First of all the new “Jacket” reliving the one worn by the greatest 70s champion, re-interpreted in a new shade-material combination. If the front is in nylon ripstop, like a real wind-jacket, the side body bands and sleeves have that traditional wool and acrylic structure.
Then for the first time, you have black and ocean blue alongside the classic red and blue, rigorously found in the logo F-Box on all items: more fashionable, less sporty.
This material and structure variety can also be found in the double face two-colour jacket with contrasting sleeves, and in the full zip track-top with a ribbed waist, collar and cuffs; an optical impact of rigorous, tidy graffito, through the different yarn inserts.
And on to the fun t-shirt, irreverent, dedicated to the tennis athlete-icon, to the 70s. Naturally, this collection could not be without those striped polo-shirts and classical pure cotton t-shirts, that retrò taste of a timeless, indelible image, yet continually on the move.
The footwear completing the Vintage collection gives us the icons F13, Original Fitness and Classic Tennis, soft leather models in traditional colours, alongside the successful Rialto, refined tennis footwear with leather uppers in Black/Gold holed leather.
Lots of models from past tennis Collections in different versions and colours: with laces, velcro, white, black, a social accent on precious details underlined in gold or silver, in a material and colour game mix: full flower leather, holed and not, silver or gold.

And 70s Fitness, a renewed shape for greater comfort, both leather and nubuck in four colours; gold details standing out: seaming, labels, logo.

Gold

A detail epidemic, contagious research for style and design where gold, that collection interpreter par excellence, plays with weave and print. Shoulder garments – jackets, sweatshirts, and short jackets – the protagonists of this Autumn-Winter Gold line; alongside new items, different in shape, offering us retrò red together with the classic colour range: gold and black.
The new shiny nylon padded jacket, with ribbed waist and cuffs, mandarin collar, front pockets and small zipped pockets on the front; alone well worth the collection’s name: an item in pure metropolitan style where the unmistakable golden logo F-box, seamed on the jacket’s centre band creates a geometrical shade on shade motive, then repeated in contrast on sleeve and zips.
Alongside the waxed cotton jacket and k-way repeating the F-box geometrical theme, comes the track-top: much more than a sweatshirt, nothing like just any old jacket. Raglan sleeves contrasting with its embroidered rhomb body, full zip with hood and pouch. Or the all over print sweatshirt: one colour on the one side with F-Box printed on the front and on the zip; on the other, a geometrical shade on shade composition got by bringing together the logo.
Striped polo shirts and all over print t-shirts to complete the collection, with that touch of non-conforming elegance.
We find the same elegance and polish in its footwear with combinations the main protagonist: black/gold, white/silver and coffee/gold, colour shades always found in the Gold collection.
The Torino in low profile, full flower leather with an important holed Velcro band and F-box logo in relief and the Biella model, in full flower hammered leather and a special lace up system with bands covering laces. And let’s not forget Stilo, with its vulcanised sole, full flower leather uppers and leather and material side inserts, made precious by a gold element. All models have leather lining and a removable sole with “Gold” printed on it.