Berluti has always communicated at a frequency that rewards attention. A Journey in Craft, the house’s new film series with Lee Jun Ho, turns that sensibility into a visual project, tracing the path from workshop to wardrobe across Italy and, later, Paris.
Lee Jun Ho for Berluti
The opening chapter begins in Ferrara, inside the Manifattura where the brand’s shoes take shape under the hands of more than 300 artisans. The camera stays close to process, following the construction of the Alessandro Oxford, cut from a single piece of leather and finished through Berluti’s signature patina. Jun Ho occupies this world as a curious observer, guided by craftsmen whose knowledge belongs to apprenticeship, passed through years at the bench.
From there, the story shifts to Venice, a city Berluti has long folded into its identity through the very name of its Venezia leather. Ferrara grounds the narrative in making. Venice opens it into atmosphere, where color, light, and time shape the way leather is perceived. Jun Ho’s passage along the Grand Canal, dressed in a lilac linen Forestière jacket, becomes a study in tone and surface, a visual parallel to the layered finish of Berluti’s shoes.
The Paris chapter will complete the arc, returning the focus to bespoke tradition and the client relationship that has defined the house since its founding in 1895. What remains consistent across all three settings is the material itself, observed from a different angle each time.
The patina work at the center of this film finds its full seasonal expression in Berluti’s fall 2026 collection, where color becomes the primary material.
