Bally Menswear
Bally Menswear
Bally Menswear
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Bally: On the Block & On the Money
By: Godfrey Deeny
Photos by Gruber-FWD
Milan, Jun 14, 2002/FWD/ --- Bally’s owners may have put part of the company up for sale,
but the men’s collection the house presented Sunday in Milan was as comfortable and nonchalant
as you could ask.
"It’s true. We are looking for a strategic partner. Things are fine, but if you think of
anyone, let me know," Bally’s creative director Scott Fellows told FWD backstage after the
show in the first official confirmation that Bally’s owner, Texas Pacific, has put the house
on the block.
Under Fellows’ direction, Bally has bloomed from a venerable, though staid Swiss label into
a slickly practical brand, as the collection he unveiled in a south Milan exhibition space
showed.
Scott opened with some clean-cut, lightly padded coats, followed by coalminer-style jackets
with leather midriffs, capturing Bally’s special sense of quality.
Fellows’ talent as a colorist was again in evidence with some great deep-green boots and
shoes and a superb fjord-blue pair of leather pants. There were a couple of striking
motorbike-style jackets, though you couldn’t really envision anyone actually wearing
them on a hog.
But all things considered, there were lots of classy clothes on the catwalk. Not a bad brand
to buy into by any means. Now, who’s got 30 or 40 million euros in their treasure chest?
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Bally Menswear
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