2050: A STYLE ODYSSEY

I first interviewed Alessandro Sartori nearly a decade ago, for a cover feature in the eighth issue of The Rake. It was Sartori’s debut turn as a magazine’s principal subject, but it proved a prescient choice, as he would go on to become one of the most important menswear designers of his generation. Moving from the Creative Director’s role at Z Zegna in 2011 to join the newly LVMH-acquired Berluti, Sartori presided over the Arnault family’s successful transformation of the house from a recherché shoemaker and leather goods atelier to a full-service, ultra-luxury menswear brand. After five spectacular years shaping the Berluti man — a globetrotting bohemian