In 1974, the Boglioli brothers set out to make modern suits. What they created was a new kind of tailoring. The central idea was dressing down the suit: classic designs and proportions, rendered softer and more versatile than the typical business suit.
The big break came in 1987 with the K-Jacket, an unconstructed jacket made without shoulder pads or internal lining, coloured using a ground-breaking garment dyeing technique. Rather than conventional yarn-dyeing (colouring the thread before it’s made into cloth), Boglioli made the jacket and then coloured it whole, a tricky process nobody had attempted with tailored clothing. The result is a vintage finish which gives the garment a unique, visual softness as well as a literal one.
Boglioli’s K-Jacket: A Modern Classic

Mats wears the Boglioli for Trunk Cotton Pique K-Jacket
Today the K-Jacket has come a long way from that early, hand-dyed model, and the company is now able to dye wools, silks, and even cashmere using these techniques, and offers the K-Jacket in a wide range of cotton twills and piques, summer tropical wool and winter flannel, alongside full suits and overcoats.
Boglioli has always been a favourite maker at Trunk, perfectly fitting the brand ethos of relaxed elegance. ‘I’m a big fan of Boglioli and have quite a few in my wardrobe’ says Trunk’s founder Mats Klingberg. ‘One of my favourites is the lightweight travel suit in grey. It’s the perfect travel companion as it’s so light and doesn’t take up too much space in your luggage. It’s also easy to just fold up and pop in your suitcase, without it getting wrinkly. The jacket and trousers can be worn together with a shirt and tie for a smarter look or as separates for more casual looks.’
Unstructured tailoring is particularly useful for the frequent traveller, Mats says. ‘I always make an effort to travel with carry-on only to avoid having to wait for my luggage on the other end of a flight. What I tend to wear and travel with needs to be easily mixed and matched, and this is why unstructured tailoring is a perfect fit for me.’

Mats wears the Boglioli Tropical Wool Travel K-Jacket and Trousers.
Trunk’s Director of Retail, Tim Yates, has long enjoyed the K-Jacket. ‘It’s completely unstructured and so very light and comfortable but still tailored enough that it looks smart. You’d think that a tailored jacket with no structure might be hard to wear for different body types, but we find it works very well and looks good on most customers.’
Another team favourite in previous seasons has been the Dover, Tim says. A popular jacket model with an elegant and slightly wider lapel, but shorter than most customers today prefer. The solution? ‘We asked Boglioli if they could combine the two styles: the classic K-Jacket, but with the lapel of the Dover,’ Tim explains. ‘The result is lovely: the less narrow lapel of the Dover, without the reduction in length. And, of course, with the comfort that both styles offer.’

Mats wears a Boglioli K-Jacket made from a seasonal wool herringbone fabric.
The Boglioli for Trunk jacket is the team’s version of the ideal jacket. Offered in a timeless wool hopsack in navy and biscuit and finished with buffalo horn buttons, it’s an elegant, all-season, all-purpose garment—practical for travel, yet soft and comfortable at home. A piqué version will also be arriving in the spring.
This season, Trunk is curating a range of K-Jackets in summer-ready cotton and linen fabrics (with trousers available separately), alongside the travel suit in tropical wool, and a double-breasted version in classic wool hopsack. The exclusive Boglioli for Trunk jacket in both navy and biscuit hopsack, as well as the navy piqué version, has proven especially popular with customers, Tim says. 'Because it’s a Trunk special, we have to order in higher quantities than normal, but the last time an order arrived, I was amazed at how quickly they disappeared!'
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