The Spring/Summer 2025 collection by Loro Piana is an experiment of sorts. The luxury brand has chosen to focus its attention on linen—a material that’s beloved (albeit at times criticised for wrinkling easily) in the warmer months—playing around with blends and manipulating it into designs that highlight its best attributes. It is linen as you have hardly ever seen, touched or felt before—a wholly Loro Piana experience.

This exploration of linen’s potential also saw a further experimentation into the idea of suiting in today’s context. Loro Piana continues to reimagine suiting in multiple permutations, subtracting elements and twisting proportions as well as the hand feel of materials to resemble traditional suiting.

Linen’s typically lightweight fluidity is compacted slightly to give it enough structure to produce a double-breasted Everton jacket. The blend of Pecora Nera® (undyed merino wool harvested from a specific flock of sheep) with silk and linen allows it to drape gently alongside its coordinated trousers, providing a balance of warm and cool options depending on the climate. The suit pairs seamlessly with the André shirt of the same composition and hue, effectively reimagining the idea of a three-piece.

A collarless jacket option simplifies the silhouette of a conventional three-piece. The waistcoat is cut high at the neckline, inverting the jacket-to-waistcoat proportion and at once cleverly filling up the gap of where traditional lapels would have been. A more traditional interpretation is rendered in virgin wool with wide peak lapels on the double-breasted Milano blazer accentuating the strength in the shoulders—a signature silhouette that pays homage to the timeless elegance of Sergio Loro Piana.

The brand’s signature Spagna jacket is refined for the evening. In either white or black, the Spagna’s stand collar is trimmed with tone-on-tone leather for an extra touch of refinement to the overall relaxed cut. The proposal is to keep Loro Piana’s monochromatic styling as a way to heighten the elegant nature of the Spagna jacket. A suit by itself may already be a refined statement but how it’s styled amps it up.

Then there is a “suit” that’s not quite one in the traditional sense. It’s fluid in construction, thanks both to the linen composition as well as the seamless match of hues across all three pieces—a waistcoat, a shirt and a pair of trousers. At a glance, you may mistake the waistcoat for another iteration of a collarless jacket or perhaps a cardigan. But like a traditional suit, the entire ensemble exudes a sense of dressed-up elegance.

Finishing off, a pair of footwear smart enough to go toe to toe with the formality of suiting and easy enough to slide into as a reflection of casual elegance. The Sergio loafers fit the bill. Inspired by a pair found in its namesake’s personal collection, the Sergio loafers are crafted using the Blake method where the sole, lining, upper and insole are matched together with a single seam to create a flexible and durable finish. An Adler-worked vamp adds a sophisticated relief effect that is in line with Loro Piana’s dedicated attention to detail, while a classic band completes the look.

Throughout the collection, suiting comes in many forms. But one thing that reins them all in is the sense of elegance and refinement, apparent no matter the composition of material or garments. Perhaps, that’s what makes a suit.