Alexandre Mattiusi

Alexandre Mattiussi was born in France in 1980 and studied at the Duperre School of Applied Arts in Paris. He tried to launch an earlier version of AMI Paris in 2002, but it failed. He went on to design at Dior Homme, Marc Jacobs, and Givenchy (he was one of the people leading the menswear design at Givenchy before Riccardo Tisci’s arrival in 2011). Two and a half years after showing his first AMI Paris collection in 2011, he won France’s prestigious ANDAM prize for his work with the brand. His clothes exude Parisian elegance at its finest; the collections feature oversized yet elegant knitwear and chic outerwear. While AMI is not as expensive as big-name fashion houses, calling them inexpensive would be a stretch. The trousers play with traditional silhouettes, incorporating pleats and cropped or wide-leg cuts. Mattiusi’s clothes are, in his own words, “real clothes for a real man.”