FASHION

Founded in 1910 in Trivero, a small town in the Biella Alps, Italy, by tailor and entrepreneur, Ermenegildo Zegna has become one of the world’s finest brands.  It also remains one of the few remaining family-run fashion houses and is now managed by the fourth generation of the Zegna family. It might be family run but that doesn’t mean that it’s small. Ermenegildo Zegna is a multinational company in the men’s luxury clothing industry, distributing its products in over 80 countries worldwide and generating over 88% of its sales in overseas markets – including ours.



This multinational approach is mirrored by Zegna’s clothes. Zegna cuts are quintessentially English, from the suits of a world-class banker to the casualwear of a world-beating yachtsman or horsemaster. The fabrics are Italian, made for lightweight softness and pre-soaked in the waters of the Italian Alps, whose mineral-free quality has been sought after by Italian cloth merchants since the Middle Ages. The craftsmanship is Swiss—accurate, precise, always correct, while colours change year on year.  "Our typical client believes in understated classic styles," says Gildo Zegna, grandson of the family firm's founder. Very classic tailoring, rich and supple fabrics, and obsessive attention to detail make Zegna the Rolls Royce of menswear.



What most men see of Zegna are elegant shops full of jackets, pants, and ties, but the company was originally - and at its heart remains - a fabric house, and it is an important reason why it occupies the top of the quality-suitmaker hierarchy.



Ermenegildo Zegna Boutique

171 Queen Street

Auckland