French luxury goods group, PPR, said Tuesday that it has acquired 100 percent of Brioni, the Italian menswear brand.

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While the designer's early collections for his eponymous menswear brand were more techno than tulips (a reaction against his childhood in the Belgian countryside with a mother who was "obsessed with flowers"), the designer has more recently learned to embrace his pastoral roots, first at the helm of Jil Sander and now at Dior.

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Once a power in menswear, the YSL brand had languished for ten years because it was licensed to third parties.

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Nowhere is this new view of the tuxedo more apparent than in the evening wear capsule collection launched last month by online menswear retailer Mr. Porter and super hip Swedish brand Acne.

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