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Posted Mar. 27, 2008,
Stefan Campbell Presents: The Details-Oriented Dad
By Stefan Campbell
This is Franco Bastoni, a 22-year-old father of a 16-month-old baby boy. Franco is neither a rock star nor a fashion editor, but a factory production assistant for a leather goods company in the small town of San Mauro Pascoli outside of Bologna (one of my absolute favorite cities in Italy). I spotted him in Milan last month during Fashion Week wearing a look that was so head-to-toe that I wondered: “Where did he find the time?! And where did he find the FASHION?!”
He had on a giant fur hat that towered and puffed like an ‘80s-era hair-rocker’s wig (think Poison or Van Halen-style fabulousness) which he ordered online from estore.com; a snug Dsquared skunken navy peacoat (note the red threads holding the brown buttons and how they match the red cord on the hat) over a grey, sculpted pinstriped blazer (the hem perfectly peaking from the bottom of the peacoat), a precise, fitted black cardigan over a white starch shirt and with a black tie. And that’s just the top half. Below the waist, he found a pair of Dsquared shiny grey bondage trousers ( how could he make them seem so un-punk?) and even shinier Converse sneakers covered in iridescent sequins ( how did he make them seem so un-vulgar?). All this and I still have not mentioned the gargantuan brown sunglasses from Tom Ford (so Jane Fonda ) and the enormous alligator overnight-bag-as-day-bag from Emporio Armani (Giorgio, take note, this boy made it work!!). He looked like one of those genius mannequins from Fred Segal in Los Angeles that Brett Brooks creates. However, Franco has never left Italy to have seen them.