Overview
KNT, short for Kiton New Textures, is the contemporary line created inside the Kiton universe by Mariano and Walter De Matteis in 2018. It is rooted in the same Neapolitan fabric and tailoring culture as the parent house, but moves that knowledge towards urbanwear, technical ease and metropolitan rhythm. The line works as a younger textile laboratory, where tailoring, knitwear, sport and travel are tested through a more relaxed silhouette.
The brand’s public identity is built around intersections: elegance and comfort, handwork and technology, architectural geometry and the softness of luxury cloth. KNT uses fine wool, cashmere, technical fabrics, knitwear, sneakers, jogger trousers, deconstructed jackets and outerwear to reframe Kiton’s material authority for a more mobile customer. Its collections appear through campaigns, retail activations, sport partnerships and Pitti Uomo presentations, including the KNT Intersection project.
As a third-generation project, KNT gives Kiton a succession language without breaking from the parent house. Mariano and Walter De Matteis translate the family’s tailoring inheritance into a contemporary wardrobe shaped by movement, texture and controlled informality.
Philosophy
KNT’s design philosophy starts from textile experimentation. The line takes the expensive quietness of Kiton cloth and pushes it into a more active wardrobe: soft suits, technical outerwear, high-gauge knitwear, sport-inflected trousers and sneakers designed for travel, movement and city life. The result is not streetwear as logo language, but a tailoring house learning how to move faster without abandoning material discipline.
The line’s strongest codes are softness, modularity and engineered comfort. Architecture appears as a visual reference in gridded surfaces and clean geometry; sport appears through tennis, football, performance fabrics and ease around the body; and Neapolitan tailoring appears through the insistence that even casual clothes must be built from exceptional cloth and controlled proportion. KNT is at its best when those references remain balanced rather than decorative.
As a third-generation project, KNT also gives Kiton a succession language. Mariano and Walter De Matteis do not reject the parent house; they translate it. Their work keeps the family system visible while giving the younger line a legitimate reason to exist beyond capsule merchandising.
Recent events
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Creative timeline
For Fall/Winter 2026/27, KNT continues to define its collection language around texture and movement, balancing corduroy, cashmere outerwear, tartan checks and relaxed tailoring within a Pitti-facing menswear format.
The KNT Marine capsule and SACS Strider 13 project expand KNT’s textile vocabulary into nautical lifestyle, using performance materials, fluid summer silhouettes and product design to move the line beyond conventional menswear presentation.
KNT Intersection formalises the line’s Pitti presence with a collection built around converging material languages: sporty function, Neapolitan craft, technical fabrics and a contemporary reading of tailored elegance.
At Pitti Uomo 105, KNT becomes a visible part of the fair’s tailoring-to-outerwear conversation, using graphic, urban presentation language to separate the line from Kiton’s quieter mainline formality.
The Tottenham Hotspur partnership extends KNT beyond showroom menswear into visible sport-adjacent dressing, connecting the line’s active, metropolitan tailoring language to professional football culture.
KNT’s New York launch turns Kiton New Textures into a public-facing collection project, translating the house’s fabric culture into a compact wardrobe of urban outerwear, soft tailoring, sports trousers, sweatshirts and sneakers.
Mariano and Walter De Matteis create KNT as Kiton’s contemporary textile laboratory, translating the parent house’s tailoring and fabric culture into urbanwear, sport-inflected silhouettes and Pitti-facing collection activity.
KNT structure
KNT is compact, but its public identity spans ready-to-wear, textile experimentation, presentation projects and sport partnerships within the Kiton system.
Core line
- KNT ready-to-wear
Contemporary urbanwear line
The core line combines soft tailoring, technical outerwear, knitwear, trousers, jersey, sneakers and travel-ready clothing. It is the main public expression of KNT’s city-focused wardrobe.
Textile laboratory
- Kiton New Textures
Textile research identity
The name signals the line’s purpose: adapting Kiton’s cloth culture to more casual, sporty and technical forms. KNT treats fabric as the point where tailoring, performance and daily movement meet.
Presentation projects
- KNT at Pitti Uomo
Trade-fair presentations
KNT’s Pitti Uomo appearances, including the KNT Intersection capsule, give the line a public rhythm around fabric experiments, sport references and new silhouettes.
Sport and cultural extensions
- KNT x Tottenham Hotspur
Formalwear partnership
The Tottenham partnership places KNT in a sport-luxury context and supports the line’s positioning around movement, team identity and contemporary formal dressing.
KNT collaborations and partnerships
KNT collaborations are currently selective and sport-facing rather than extensive.
Sport partnerships
- KNT x Tottenham Hotspur
Formalwear / football partnership
KNT dressed Tottenham Hotspur players and staff for selected formal occasions, using the partnership to connect the line’s urban tailoring with contemporary football visibility.
