Emporio Armani x Our Legacy Work Shop Gets A Celebrated Encore - Men's Folio

Emporio Armani x Our Legacy Work Shop Gets A Celebrated Encore

Emporio Armani and Our Legacy Work Shop are back with a new collaboration for SS25, exploring vacation-wear through Armani fabrics and trims.

While the first Emporio Armani x Our Legacy Work Shop link up was met with surprise in 2023, the mere announcement of its latest and second collaboration this SS25 has the crowds already eager and ready to celebrate whatever is about to come out of this pairing. Our Legacy Work Shop — the creative and experimental arm of the Swedish brand — has never missed, and its innovative touch on the elegant, albeit younger faction of the Armani family has resulted in a blend of identities perfect for the contemporary, mindful fashion consumer today.

What was an integration of Our Legacy’s functional cool into Emporio Armani’s sartorial aesthetic is now reversed; the younger, former name takes a dip into the archives of the Italian house, using actual vintage Armani fabrics and trims or recreations of them — developed exclusively by Our Legacy for the project — to discover a new vocabulary of silhouettes. Including for the first time, womenswear.

Speaking to the natural ease of Our Legacy’s pieces and timelessness of Emporio Armani’s, this collection imagines what an Armani vacation wardrobe could look like. The campaign, photographed by Alasdair McLellan, was shot on Pantelleria, a remote volcanic island in the Mediterranean and a long-time personal retreat for Giorgio Armani, further developing this getaway narrative; magical yet still rooted in the technical demands the intended audience prizes as priority.

Subtle references to traditional East Asian attire can be seen throughout the collection, such as in the collarless Sciovolo Shirt, as well as the motifs on the pocket lining of the Ampolla Blazer. The Toga Coat, a robe-like piece, inspired by the structure of the kimono, not only served as a starting point for the design process, but also remains a key style in the collection. The nods to hotel bathrobes and slippers also further evoke a sense of islandic wanderlust — unhurried, sun-soaked and relaxed.

Some pieces from the first collaboration have also returned anew, while the cat motif comes out in select prints and on an Our Legacy Work Shop Emporio Armani deck of cards.

With a piercing simplicity and sagacity reflective of his design flair, Giorgio Armani comments that “I love things that age well — things that don’t date, that stand the test of time both in terms of durability and wearability.” But perhaps Cristopher Nying, creative director of Our Legacy, sums up why this collaboration is garnering all this close attention from near and far, best. “To design within the boundaries of what already exists is a challenge — but also an opportunity. These fabrics carry history. Seeing them return in a new form made the entire process unexpectedly rewarding.”


OUR LEGACY WORK SHOP Emporio Armani will be available from Friday 16th May with a special exclusive installation at the Armani/Manzoni store in Milan, and in-store installations at Dover Street Market London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Ginza. The Collection will also be available in OUR LEGACY stores in Stockholm, London, Berlin and Seoul, WORK SHOP Stockholm and selected wholesale partners. Once you are done with this story, click here to catch up with our May 2025 issue.