When John Turturro noticed that the setting for Zegna’s runway present right here was a grassy knoll, he puzzled if he’d fallen into an Italian wormhole and landed again on the set of “Severance.”
“That was my first thought,” Mr. Turturro stated backstage after the present, nonetheless bristling with vitality from having simply accomplished his first ever flip as a runway mannequin.
See, Zegna’s verdant stage regarded loads like a set from Season 2 of “Severance,” which had its premiere on Friday. It’s not fairly a spoiler to debate this, because the nubby inexperienced panorama is seen within the season’s trailer. Nonetheless, Mr. Turturro, 67, the journeyman American actor who performs one of many metaphysically cut up Lumon Industries staff on the present, was not eager to disclose any extra about the place the present was heading.
So we left it at that. However, Mr. Turturro was pleased to debate his modeling cameo for 115-year-old Zegna. (For what it’s value, the setting was designed to evoke the grassland the place sheep graze: Zegna used the gathering to introduce Vellus Aureum designs, which it boasts are constituted of the best wool on the earth. Grass, sheep, wool. Received it.)
“That was my virginal stroll,” stated Mr. Turturro, nonetheless dressed within the plunging V-neck sweater and swishy pleated trousers he sported on the runway. He had shed the va-va-voom tweed coat, and it was mendacity close by.
A “Severance” outfit this was not. That present’s company cogs trudge about in blue fits and uninspired no-iron shirts — garments that make them seem inoffensive to the purpose of being invisible.
In distinction, this masterful Zegna assortment, designed by Alessandro Sartori, Zegna’s longstanding inventive director, demanded shut inspection and an excellent little bit of consideration. Plaids have been scaled up as if peered at via a microscope. And a corduroy swimsuit, a males’s put on archetype about as previous as Zegna itself, slouched like a nubbly bathrobe.
Peer nearer: Sure, these have been two button-up shirts trickily stacked on prime of one another. (It might have been misplaced on Mr. Sartori, an Italian, however to American eyes, this can be a layering transfer that calls to thoughts one individual: Steve Bannon.) And the button on that sport coat was planted decrease than common. And sure, its lapels have been beefier than the common, making the fashions, a lot of them gray-bearded and an excellent era past the fashions you usually see in Milan, appear like Seventies on line casino magnates you wouldn’t need to cross.
As Mr. Turturro walked his rookie stroll — his coat easing again on the shoulders, his arms stuffed in his pockets, a slight smirk conveying that he was in command and unbothered — it was evident simply how Zegna had gained over the Davos set and the confident Hollywood sorts.
“You’ll really feel that at my age you don’t get new experiences,” Mr. Turturro stated after the present. “This was a brand new expertise for me.” Definitely he was a good distance from Lumon Industries.
