This Isn’t a Suede Stone Island Jacket, It’s a Technical Marvel
Stone Island Ghost has released a new suede jacket for Spring/Summer 2025. Or, at least, that’s how it appears at first glance.
The premium diffusion line, where every garment is rendered in a single color (even down to the signature Stone Island compass badge), has debuted a new fabric for Stone Island, produced by fellow Italian company Alcantara.
A technically engineered suede-like material, Alcantara is lighter and more hard-wearing than real suede. It is often used by car manufacturers to produce interiors, including the likes of Lamborghini and BMW.
For its debut Stone Island products, Alcantara appears on a field jacket and a Harrington-style jacket available now from Stone Island (retailing for $1,855 and $1,655, respectively).
These jackets arrive alongside a weatherproof blazer and a new style of linen in the latest Stone Island Ghost collection. All of it is modeled by a noteworthy cast: footballer Garrett Wilson, actor Ethan Ruen, and traveller Hidetoshi Nakata.
Not the first time Stone Island has toyed with ways to make leather outerwear more technical, earlier this year it debuted Light Leather Organza: a super thin layer of lambskin leather combined with superlight polyester organza.
Seemingly, good old natural leather doesn’t fit into Stone Island’s technically advanced world.
