Esquire is live from Pitti Uomo as well this week. They featured this shirt from the Nigel Cabourn Spring 2011 collection. “Some things were never meant to be combined, like televisions and refrigerators, while others go together so well that we’re left knocking our foreheads. Why didn’t we think of this before? That was the feeling when we saw the ridiculous combo of sailor sweater and oxford shirt at Nigel’s booth here at Pitti. As with all the meticulously researched and tweaked garments he makes, this one is special; constructed using an originally designed Japanese oxford fabric with a perfect slim fit.” We’ll be seeing more from this collection soon.

More macro views of the Nigel Cabourn Sailor Shirt for Spring 2011 after the click.

GQ have sent Tommy Ton, of Jak and Jill fame, to cover the menswear street style at Pitti Uomo. As to be expected from the Sart’s favourite destination, there’s more gentlemanly inspiration than you can shake a walking stick at. We’ve included a few of our favourites after the leap and you can view the whole thing here.

One of our favorite menswear shops, Tres Bien, has been kind enough to blog their way through the mens Spring/Summer 2010 offering at Pitti Uomo in Florence. We’re thinking we need to be on site for the next show based on the previews we’re seeing here. “The exhibitors list stretches from Classic Italian and British suiting to Japanese work wear, hundreds of shoe brands and small independent labels mixed with the big fashion houses. Our main target was N.Y-based and Daiki Suzuki (also head designer for Woolrich Woollen Mills) designed Engineered Garments. E.G is work-wear and fashion mixed togeteher on the best possible matter. Chambray, rogh silver thread sewn cotton and classic worker and military styles.” See Tres Bien’s full photo walkthrough on their blog.

More view after the jump.

Drapers’ Marino Donati talks business and trends with Aquascutum at menswear show Pitti Uomo.

Pitti WORKWEAR, a new exhibition project from the people behind Pitti Uomo fashion show, opened to solid reviews on Wednesday. As Bruce Pask at The Moment describes, “There were rows and rows of uniforms, from metallic fireproof suits and Carhartt construction-worker classics to doppelgängers with designer labels: jumpsuits from Thierry Mugler and Agnès b., a leather apron dress from Hermès and some great pieces from Gianni Versace’s 1994 women’s collection inspired by men’s overalls were great representations of the influence of the workman on fashion.” The exhibit gallery will be opened through February 8th at Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy.

With much anticipation many have waited for the Thom Browne presentation at Pitti Uomo this week, as the designer had already previously announced that he would go a more conservative way for this first venture into Europe. Thanks to the Moment we can show you some images of the presentation, which turned out to be really sharp.

“Everything was so pin-sharp – the taut tailored suits, the metallic clatter of typewriters and the modernist Mussolini architecture – that Thom Browne’s Florentine excursion was a pure and powerful distillation of his message.” Via IHT.

Take a more detailed look at the presentation, which just consisted of two suits and a couple of other pieces from his collection, but was still extremely strong, after the jump.