Forget about those elegant three-piece Zegna suits and throw away your Ferragamo brogues, the Italians are about to be hit with an onslaught of Australian men's fashion.
But exactly what they will make of our post modern mullets and pantaloons?
Eight Australian menswear labels are about to hit Florence to represent us in the world's biggest menswear fashion event, the annual Pitti Uomo, which kicks off on June 13.
With more than 30,000 visitors and around 20,000 buyers, Pitti Uomo is the men's fashion grand prix, and each year a guest nation is invited to showcase it's finest with their own pavilion dedicated to their sartorial splendour. In past years counties like Singapore, Japan, Korea and Brazil have wowed the Italians in the fashion version of the Eurovision song contest.
He’s the man behind Sydney’s Icebergs, yet Maurice Terzini has now also moved into the fashion space with a collaboration that sees him work with Ten Pieces. The label was launched in 2011 – think punk rock meets street wear slacker. Photo: Graham Denholm
This year Sydney restaurateur turned fashion impresario Maurice Terzini and his Ten Pieces label will join other local labels such as Double Rainbouu, Strateas, Carlucci, Chris Ran Lin, Comma, Sener Besim eyewear, Ex Infinitas and socialite Pip Edwards' activewear brand PE Nation, which will unveil its first men's range.
Yoga tights for men?
Terzini and his co designer Lucy Hinckfuss' label Ten Pieces caused quite a stir at last months' Australian Fashion Week when they presented models sporting seriously outre mullets, reflective sunglasses, pantaloons and high tops.
And they weren't joking either as the models strutted around Terznini's Iceberg's restaurant in the odd-ball get ups.
Apparently Terzini and Hinckfuss wanted to draw references to the Sharpies, the youth gangs who haunted suburbia throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Â
Hopefully nothing will be lost in translation when they hit Florence.