Maison 24 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Thom Browne
The reading
The cropped gray suit as a trademark. Zegna ownership gave the atelier industrial backing without sanding the joke off the clothes. Menswear intellectual property that women now buy as readily.
The house
- Origin
- United States
- Founded
- 2001
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- Zegna Group
- Signature
- Short suit / grosgrain loop
- Register note
- American tailoring IP This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
It is the 92nd-oldest house in the register. Zegna Group holds no other house in this register. The register files nine maisons to the United States, the same number it files to the United Kingdom, and this is one of them. Fashion & Couture holds twenty-five houses here, and this is the 24th of them. Fashion & Couture in this register runs from 1837 to 2013, with a median founding year of 1951; Thom Browne is fifty years younger than that median. Twenty-five of the hundred places go to Fashion & Couture, the largest room in the register.