MIAMI — All the celebs had been out in full power for this 12 months’s Components 1 weekend — and Brunello Cucinelli‘s occasions had been no exception.
The Italian designer celebrated each the Miami Grand Prix weekend alongside his eponymous model’s first anniversary of the Miami Design District boutique. Company had been handled to an Italian feast on the Lido Surf Membership in Miami, as homage to the model’s deep Italian roots.
Attendees included Victor Cruz and Orange Calderón, Kate and Kevin Love, Scottish mannequin and Components 1 driver Carlos Sainz’s girlfriend Rebecca Donaldson, Components 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and extra — all prepared for this weekend’s race day.
“I’ve cherished Brunello Cucinelli from the very starting,” Cruz instructed WWD. “Their model, tailoring, their materials. They’re recognized for his or her cashmere however I really like what they do in suiting typically. The breathability issue of it — I really feel like I could possibly be off the coast of Italy with it or I might stroll the New York streets as nicely. It meshes so nicely with my journey and issues I do each day.”
Cruz added that he and Calderón respect how a lot the Brunello Cucinelli model provides again via their basis and general philanthropy efforts.
“Wherever the place that I can have a bit swag. If I’m getting I’m on a ship and I’m in Miami, I at all times attempt to add [Brunello Cucinelli] to my look,” he stated. “I’m at all times making an attempt to be in one thing cool and breathable. As I’ve gotten older, any likelihood I get to place a idler on with a great pair of pants and a polo and be snug, I’m going to reap the benefits of it.”
Victor Cruz and Orange Calderón
Courtesy of Brunello Cucinelli
Kate Love equally stated that as a mother of two now, her garments should be “easy and straightforward,” however being put collectively is paramount in making her really feel like herself — “once you get up and placed on a glance, it actually adjustments my temper and my power.”
“Brunello Cucinelli is timeless,” she continued. “Any piece of clothes you purchase is sweet high quality and it would final perpetually. All the pieces they make is so considerate and particular.”
Love shared that she and Kevin Love went to Solomeo, Italy, as a part of their honeymoon and toured the model’s manufacturing unit. “It gave us a brand new understanding of the model and the way they actually care about each single piece,” she stated.
In the meantime, Donaldson stated she tends to veer towards vogue that has a “masculine contact, however nonetheless in a female approach.” Her favourite silhouettes are oversize or boxy appears to be like and she or he likes to put on trousers.
Francesco Tomassini, Luca Lisandroni, Brunello Cucinelli, Ramin Arani, Massimo Caronna and Pietro Arnaboldi.
Courtesy of Brunello Cucinelli
Whereas race weekend was the foremost draw, many flew into city to benefit from the Miami sunshine and spend time with all their fellow Grand Prix attendees. “I really like Miami, and I really like visiting right here,” stated Donaldson. “There’s at all times such a great power and being on the seashore. There’s nice meals, at all times nice vibes.”
Lewis Hamilton and Scuderia Ferrari proceed to be the 2 names on everybody’s thoughts — each Love and Cruz famous their affinity for Hamilton and his new workforce. Cruz stated he’s an enormous Components 1 fan general and not too long ago began following it within the final two years.
“I’m a Leclerc and Hamilton fan — so I’m a Ferrari fan now, as a result of they’ve each!” Love stated.
Even Mercedes workforce principal and CEO Toto Wolff and F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff confirmed up on the final minute to attend the model dinner — a testomony to simply how a lot vogue and Components 1 have continued to be intertwined.
Cucinelli can also be attending the Miami Grand Prix for the primary time this 12 months — after attending different Grands Prix on the calendar and the F1 75 occasion with Domenicali earlier this 12 months.
The previous NFL participant stated that all through his profession, Cruz was on the “precipice” of sport’s intersection with vogue — again since 2011 — and now sees simply how a lot it has exponentially grown with the rise of soccer gamers being photographed strolling into stadiums, the NBA tunnel suits and that athletes are collaborating with manufacturers greater than ever.
“I at all times knew that the cutting-edge of what younger youngsters wanna put on and what vogue appears to be like like is what garments appear like on athletes and I’m excited to see that model and ethos is rising. And to say that I noticed it from the start is fairly cool, too.”
