Giuggio (Italie) vintage années 70, jacquard, stockinette, milieu du siècle

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...Giuggio’s knit vest emerges not merely as a garment but as a cartographic apparatus—an intelligent textile construct operating at the intersection of spatial modulation, chromatic intelligence, and post-digital abstraction. Executed in a mid-weight jacquard knit, the vest’s collarless, sleeveless form is structured through a full-front zip and ribbed hem, composing an architecture of ergonomic clarity and compositional intent. Its surface unfolds in angular tessellations—staggered, interlocking, and rhythmically punctuated by multi-chromatic nodes—that transform repetition into identity, a principle directly aligned with the serial logic of Henrik Vibskov’s mathematically orchestrated interference patterns. This algorithmic tessellation is not ornament but spatial code—an abstract grammar through which the vest navigates bodily topology and ambient perception. The garment’s chromatic system—anchored in earthy neutrals and modulated by saffron, rust, cerulean, ochre, and wine—functions not as decoration but as climatological syntax, recalling Arnar Már Jónsson’s meteorologically responsive outerwear, where color operates as both affective sensor and environmental index. These hues index psychological and atmospheric conditions, transforming the vest into a reactive agent—modulating, attuned, and climatologically articulate. Beneath its visual intricacy lies a tightly controlled volumetric framework akin to Craig Green’s spatial grammars and Porter Classic’s ergonomic architectures, where surface design and structural behavior converge into an animate textile logic. This convergence of tactile depth and semiotic articulation places the vest within a lineage of designers such as Vivetta, Cormio, and Sunnei, who reconfigure knitwear as a domain of expressive distortion and joyful spatiality. Its densely orchestrated motif and ribbed scaffolding encode a logic of visual density and ergonomic calibration resonant with Kapital and Uniform Experiment—designers whose chaotic patterning is tempered by structural discipline. Such hybrid methodologies extend into Doublet and WTaps, whose iterative motifs and functionalist ornamentation echo in the vest’s zipped modularity and choreographed surface rhythm. At the interface of streetwear and speculative futurism, Cav Empt and FrizmWORKS articulate a similar trajectory—garments as data-saturated environments, where form is decoded through interaction and textile becomes a communicative medium. This interface logic is taken further by Syndicate Kyiv, whose encrypted streetwear situates clothing as semiotic transmission—textile as code, surface as signal. The vest’s pixelated motif and modular composition perform within this framework, transforming the knit into a cybernetic artifact: a medium of encoded abstraction, environmental mapping, and affective narration. Gamut’s model of collective authorship and archival reassembly offers a conceptual twin to this strategy, as both reformat historical material vocabularies into contemporary knit logic—updating analog tactility through post-digital narrative intelligence. Within this speculative ecology, the vest aligns with the fluid systems of Minoar and Jan-Jan Van Essche, whose silhouettes are defined not by imposed form but by gravitational continuity—where garments are shaped through unbroken hem logic and uninterrupted surface transitions. The Giuggio vest mirrors this ethos, operating as a non-linear silhouette that grows from the kinetics of motion and environmental negotiation rather than rigid tailoring. Its deep V-neck and tailored torso mirror the architectural restraint of Barena Venezia and Harris Wharf London, designers who articulate spatial elegance through minimal intervention and gravitational drape. The result is a vest that resists prescriptive silhouette in favor of a body-responsive architecture—echoing the open-structure logic of Soulland’s hybrid tailoring and the sculptural modularity of Kiko Kostadinov. This structural ethic is intensified by the symbolic density of Wax London and Frank Leder, who reframe utilitarian silhouettes as palimpsests of cultural memory and material inheritance. In this formulation, the vest’s graphic language—fragmented yet coherent—operates as mnemonic encoding. Song for the Mute’s emotionally charged textiles, characterized by fractured visuals and memory-laden surfaces, offer a poetic analogue: garments as emotional landscapes, each thread a record of gesture and place. Here, the Giuggio vest functions not only as apparel but as discursive skin—one that simultaneously narrates, modulates, and transforms the wearer’s spatial, psychological, and cultural encounter. The subdued matte finish and layered chromatic nuance of the knit reflect the restrained refinement of Stoffa and Auralee, whose textile philosophies privilege hand feel, weight calibration, and silhouette behavior over spectacle. Meanwhile, its behavioral tactility—where knitwear transcends softness to act as a responsive interface—finds kinship with Brain Dead and A.P.C., brands that engineer textile intelligence into garments designed for psychophysical resonance. Ultimately, Giuggio’s vest stands as a phenomenological interface: a wearable matrix through which material, motion, data, and design coalesce. It is not an accessory to the body, but an extension of it—a dynamic structure in which every line, node, and chromatic shift encodes a narrative of movement, memory, and modular abstraction.

Brand: Giuggio
Origin: Italy

70s Vintage (mint condition)

Tag: MADE IN ITALY, FABRIQUE EN ITALIE
Size: XL
Color: Brown
Fabric Type: Knit
Material: Wool Blend
Composition: 50% Lana 50% Acrilico
Pattern: Geometric
Fit: Relaxed
Style: Vest
Neckline: V-Neck
Closure: Zip

Measurements (cm)
Chest: 58
Length: 66
Shoulder: 44
Sleeve: 0
Hem: 39

SKU: 000663

€ 38.42