Two icons from Italian shirt making: each with a lengthy history behind them and both looking to a future filled with style and elegance. Xacus is celebrating 60 years of innovation, together with Albini – which is celebrating 140 - with a limited edition 200yrs shirt, marking a business history steeped in a passion for fabrics and details, the very passion that sees them committed, on a daily basis, to constant innovation in Italian shirt making, and to raising the bar for excellence.
This anniversary has also received a special gift: selection for the Fedrigoni Top Award, a competition that rewards the most prestigious creations on special paper. The Fedrigoni name has been synonymous with refined elegance in the paper industry since 1888, and it has been chosen to create a unique packaging, where obsessive attention to detail and a choice of noble materials have contributed to the creation of a collectors’ item that takes the concept of packaging to a whole new level.
The 200yrs limited edition, available in ultra-stylish white packaging with gold detailing, brings you an elegant shirt made with precious Sea Island Cotton, one of the most precious varieties in the world, grown in Barbados, Antigua and Jamaica. It accounts for just 0.0004% of the world’s cotton production, meaning it is a genuine rarity. What makes this cotton so unique is its length - 36/37 millimetres – its surprising strength, and its high percentage of uniformity.
A noble fibre, with sheen, which expresses the fullness of its excellence in a shirt with Kent collar, ideal for an elegant outfit, for those important occasions that need a unique garment to give you a feel of the history, traditions and passion of two iconic brands in Italian shirt making.
