Berluti channels The Little Prince for a romantic Paris presentation

Berluti staged its Spring 2027 men’s presentation at the Simone et Cino Del Duca Foundation in Paris on June 24, folding The Little Prince and Impressionist gardens into a calm, exacting show of shoes, leather goods and cashmere. The house was listed on the FHCM calendar as a house of presentation from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., invitation only, during a Paris menswear season that ran from June 23 to June 28 and packed in 74 houses, 36 shows and 38 presentations. In a field that crowded, Berluti chose polish over spectacle.

Visitors entered to a handwritten quotation from The Little Prince, and the house said the collection marked the 80th anniversary of the book’s first French edition. Jean-Marc Mansvelt said the line was meant to express Berluti’s values of “essentiality, loyalty, transmission,” and the collection drew on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s preparatory sketches. That literary frame felt less like costume than code, especially for a brand that has long sold distinction through restraint.

Berluti’s own mythology helped the story land. Olga Berluti, the former artistic director, was known to recognize clients by their footsteps, a detail that still captures the house’s instinct for intimate luxury. LVMH describes Berluti’s heritage as offbeat classicism and technical virtuosity, and names the Duke of Windsor, Jean Cocteau and Andy Warhol among its historical clients. This is the kind of lineage that keeps a menswear house in rare company: visible to those who know how to read it, quiet enough for the old-money set to trust.

The collection will arrive in stores for the holiday season, with bags, small leather goods, cashmere shawls and a limited-edition Alessandro loafer embossed with a rose. Berluti also showed a new buffalo-leather version of the Lorenzo loafer, the squishy Un Jour-nal bag, floral embroidery on a linen Forestière jacket, and techniques such as laser-etched handwriting, stitching and the house’s signature patina. Berluti says it has been making shoes for the elegant man since 1895, and one pair of bespoke shoes takes 50 hours of work; bringing that level of craft into bags and ready-to-wear is how the house keeps its authority from feeling trapped inside footwear.

Berluti no longer shows seasonal collections in the old sense, but its concept-driven presentations still do the commercial work of preserving status. The Little Prince gave the outing romance; the shoes, shawls and leather goods gave it value. In a crowded Paris menswear market, that combination remains Berluti’s sharpest luxury proposition.