The New York businessman, owner of multiple fashionable hotels in Los Angeles, New York and Miami, André Balazs is featuring in Brioni’s campaign this winter. He wears the “power suit” from the Italian tailors in a series of images from Nathaniel Goldberg.

Image from the Brioni autumn-winter 2009/2010 campaign with André Balazs

Realised in partnership with the agency AR, the new Brioni campaign plays on the sobriety of the backdrops. Only the duo of André Balazs and American model Angela Lindvall draw the eye.

Dressed in similar dark tones and in an elegant pose they rest nonchalantly in front of a vibrant red backdrop. The contrast is striking and the effect successful.

As further proof of this gentleman’s stock in the world, if such a thing was needed, the man that GQ magazine recently ranked in top ten most elegant men in the USA will be donating his fee for the campaign to charity.

By Jonathan Fulwell (Source: Emilie-Alice Fabrizi)