Say you’re a dapper, Don Draper type. You wear only the finest suits, smoke the richest cigars, and drink the nectar of the gods. But say you also have a fetish for matching accessories—that snazzy suit isn’t worth the silk it’s made of if it doesn’t match your other high-end lifestyle toys like, say, your car. Well, Italian fashion design house Ermenegildo Zegna is here to help, and it has partnered with Maserati to fully trim out 100 new Quattroporte sedans so that they will most definitely match the finest Zegna suit. Now your threads and your wheels can be sincronizzato.
The Quattroporte Ermenegildo Zegna Limited Edition may look like a regular Quattroporte on the outside, but it’s been given the designer’s touch inside and out. At first blush, the paint appears to be just an average shade of silvery beige, but it in fact is a one-off color dubbed Platinum Silk. The hue incorporates extrafine aluminum bits “to create an effect that combines the purity of a metal with the soft look of silk.” The wheels are finished using the same paint and feature machine-finished spokes. In case the stunning paint job goes unnoticed, there is a subtle, taglike Ermenegildo Zegna badge on each B-pillar.
Like a fine suit, of course, the look is but one part of the experience—how it fits is just as important. This brings us to the Maserati’s interior, in which it appears that a large shipment of Zegna textiles exploded. That descriptor, of course, is probably too uncouth for what’s going on here. The headliner is wrapped in an eminently touchable gray jersey silk fabric, and ultra-fine-grain leather covers nearly everything else. The Moro (dark brown) and Greige (light gray) color scheme is classy, and the center sections of the seats are covered in a herringbone-patterned silk fabric produced at Zegna’s mills in Trivero, Italy. The soft fabrics and hides work well with the Limited Edition’s exclusive open-pore walnut wood trim and satin-finish chrome pieces, and we can say without a doubt that, combined with the standard 15-speaker Bowers & Wilkins audio system, we’d like to slip into that interior.
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Unlike a fine suit, the special-edition Quattroporte costs $175,000 and comes with a 523-hp twin-turbo V-8 and a gift bag of sorts, essentially a bevy of Ermenegildo Zegna stuff—19 pieces—including some leather items and personal accessories. The design house and Maserati even throw in a 3.5-meter bolt of the silk fabric used on the car’s seats, presumably so that you can have a custom suit or jacket made out of the same material. Even we can’t poke fun at something that cool; matchy-matchy Draper, your ride awaits.
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