Cueva and Chez Ma Tante are new neighbors, stationed side-by-side in Greenpoint for rather less than a yr now. Justin Felizzari’s menswear clothing store and the unassuming European-inspired eatery have shaped a quick friendship, constructed on Brooklyn days spent purchasing at Cueva, adopted by nights chowing down on Founder and Chef Jake Leiber and Chef de Delicacies Gabriel Borges’ most interesting feasts on the Leiber-founded imprint.
With group on the core of the pair’s budding brotherhood, Cueva and Chez Ma Tante are making it official with a debut clothes collaboration, enlisting Italian atelier Barena Venezia to take it to the following stage.
A masterful merging of friendship, meals, and vogue, the collab consists of 4 bespoke objects, every of which lands in three colorways. Paying homage to Barena’s first-ever assortment in 1993, which was an apron assortment, the trio brings performance to the kitchen by the use of three full appears to be like of overshirts and pant units, which every come accompanied with an identical tee and apron.
Whereas the gathering was crafted totally in Italy, Barena Venezia’s CCO, Davide Sambin Zara, believes it aligns finest with New York Metropolis.
“New York is deeply related with Venice,” defined Sambin Zara in a press assertion. “Truly, Venice was the New York of the planet if we go a couple of centuries again. Each cities are set on water and are/have been the epicenter of worldwide commerce.”
Take a better take a look at the Cueva x Chez Ma Tante x Barena Venezia collaboration within the lookbook above, and store the vary now – out there at each Cueva’s NYC outposts within the West Village and Greenpoint.
