“It’s my first men’s collection—ever,” Diesel Black Gold‘s Andreas Melbostad said backstage after his Florentine show. Pitti Uomo is a large and intimidating stage on which to make your debut, but if Melbostad was fazed by the occasion, he didn’t show it. His approach was methodical and, more to the point, probably the right one given the circumstances. He didn’t shoot out of the gate with an entirely new proposition; he identified the core of what Diesel does well and offered a stark, pared-back version of it that plays well with the biker-chick look he’s been plying at Diesel Black Gold’s womenswear.
