At Pitti, the Classics Were Back With a Twist

FLORENCE — Amid endless product and the sideshow of attention-seekers, the impression that stuck most in my mind from the latest edition of the Pitti Uomo trade fair was the platoon of stylishly dishevelled beautiful losers slowly descending and then ascending the massive staircase at centre of the Magliano show set, designed, according to the press notes, as a “device of strain and an impromptu occasion for glamour” but also a homage…