Similar style to Brunello Cucinello but much cheaper

[Coolio9]

Hi ! Can someone please give me advice on what brands I can buy in Europe which have a similar style to Brunello Cucinelli, but are a third or a fourth of the price. I'm looking for winter coats and also winter pants. For winter coats, I liked a design in Herno.

Also for a winter coat, would you advice cashmere or fur ? Which is warmer ? And for winter trousers, would you advice cashmere or wool ?

Ideally I'm looking in the range of 1000-1500 euros for the coat and 150-250 for the pants

 

[dieworkwear]

A lot of classic casualwear can devolve into fairly generic designs once you take away some element of superlative quality. For instance, a lot of classic American casualwear looks the same -- preppy, Americana, trad, etc are just clothes. You can find them anywhere from Ralph Lauren to Brooks Brothers to J. Crew.

The same goes for a lot of Italian-styled casualwear. Massimo Dutti is fairly affordable and many of the styles are similar to Cucincelli because classic casualwear has such narrowly defined parameters.

This question would be easier to answer if you gave us a category of item. Such as saying, "I want a topcoat" or "I want a cashmere sweater." Stylistically, you can find the Cucinelli look at nearly any price point because many of the styles are generic.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

The only two brands that immediately come to mind are Eleventy.

 

[maxalex]

Between cashmere and fur for a winter coat, I would choose…neither.

Although fur was certainly the first winter coat and (like leather) an obvious byproduct of meat, today it feels oddly disconnected from the natural world and the basic human need for warmth—perhaps due in part to its adoption by men who toil on air-conditioned stages in desert climates. Unless you are an indigenous Arctic resident and have made your own coat from your own kill, fur on a man looks aggressively foppish.

Cashmere, to my taste, is too soft and yielding for a man’s overcoat, which ought to feel substantial and protective—like armor without all the clanging. It’s fine for a second, dressier, overcoat. But if you only own one, I would choose heavy wool, something like a tweed.

Cashmere also generally has too much drape for trousers; it won’t hold a crease and it tends to sag in places you would prefer keep their shape. It also wears out quickly. I once commissioned a suit made of vintage cashmere Donegal tweed. In hindsight I should have just made a jacket. Now I mostly wear the jacket separately—with contrasting trousers of wool.

 

[markchen627]

The only two brands that immediately come to mind are Eleventy.

Take a look at eleventy now... the prices aren't even that much cheaper than BC. Might as well pay a little more and get BC during sales or just straight up get BC at retail