Wool Tag

MILAN — The Loro Piana Record Bale event, rewarding the best merino wool on the earth, returned here Thursday evening IRL after two years for its twenty third edition. Loro Piana chief executive officer Damien Bertrand, who joined the corporate from Christian Dior Couture last 12 months, said through the dinner event held at Milan’s Poldi Pezzoli museum that the wool is “not only a present of nature, it's the exertions of great people, crazy like us at Loro Piana,” he quipped, “and their passion and true belief in innovation and in power to alter things and improve them day after day.” Bertrand had just returned from a visit to Recent Zealand and Australia with vice chairman Pier Luigi Loro Piana, whom...