For his first big display and runway show for the international audience as the designer project of this season’s Pitti Uomo, Jan-Jan Van Essche sought to distill his own essence.
A sense of tranquility ran through the presentation, held inside the colonnaded hallways of the striking 13th-century Santa Maria Novella and in the adjacent frescoed cloister where models stood at the end of the show to the beat of…