A is proud to announce that the next occasion of Pitti Immagine in Florence, Italy will play host to two of our most esteemed collaborators as the guest designers for the mens and womens collections showings.

As the 78th edition of Pitti Uomo, the designer who will present their spring summer 2011 mens collection is Raf Simons for Jil Sander. Having shown his ten year retrospective in 2005 at Pitti, Raf returns at the helm of Jil Sander. In the words of Pitti director Lapo Cianchi:

“for us, having seen his recent work for Jil Sander, we are again – or rather still – fascinated by his extraordinary ability to be in step with the times”.

As the 6th edition of Pitti W, presenting his pre-spring 2011 collection will be none other than A#3′s curator Haider Ackermann.

“We have been tracking Haider Ackermann since his first shows in Paris and now that his poetic, his visionary talent and his feeling for memory have come together with increasing dramatic and seductive force, we decided that the time has come to offer him a different stage – our stage where he can feel free to continue his personal story or perhaps even be inspired to experiment with something new. We too are very curious”.

The next Pitti Immagine takes place in Florence between the 15th and 18th of June 2010, and is an international fashion trade fair. At its highest level, Pitti provides a new and exciting stage for fashion designers to explore different mediums and a new environment to express their vision and reach a new audience through creatively focused fashion events.

Click here to see our previous coverage of their unique work, with last year’s UNDERCOVER and Proenza Schouler events.