What Is Sizing Like at Veronica de Piante?

By Ella Blake, Senior Fashion Stylist & Founder of Tellar

Veronica de Piante runs on Italian sizing and tends to fit with a relaxed, roomy ease, so if you take your usual UK number at face value you can end up swimming in it. As a rough steer, an Italian 38 sits around a UK 6, a 40 around a UK 8, a 42 around a UK 10 and a 44 around a UK 12 — but the bigger thing to know is that this is luxury Italian tailoring cut for drape, not for hugging the body. Get the size right and it’s some of the most quietly expensive-looking clothing you can buy. Get it wrong and you’ll feel like you’ve borrowed your taller sister’s trousers.

First Things First: This Is Italian Sizing

Veronica de Piante is a made-in-Italy luxury house built on refined tailoring, exquisite knitwear, soft leather and grown-up outerwear, all produced by multi-generational, family-run factories. That heritage matters, because the label sizes everything to the Italian standard. The numbers look bigger than you’re used to, but the garment underneath is not. I’ve lost count of the times a client has panicked at seeing “42” on a label — it’s a UK 10, you’re absolutely fine, breathe.

A useful anchor: the brand’s own model is 5ft 9 and wears an Italian 38. That tells you two things straight away — the cut is long and lean, and the smaller end of the range is properly small.

How It Actually Fits, Piece by Piece

Trousers are the headline act here, and they’re cut with real ease — wide legs, high and mid rises, that elegant menswear-inspired drape. Several styles run slightly large, and the brand itself will tell you to consider sizing down for a closer fit on the more relaxed cuts. If you’re between sizes and want it sharp rather than slouchy, take the smaller one.
Knitwear is sized to the Italian standard and is where the money really shows — merino, beautiful gauge, the kind of jumper that makes everything else look better. Size for the silhouette you want: true for a clean line, up one if you like it loose and throw-on.
Tailoring and outerwear are designed to skim, not cling. The shoulders are considered, the lines are clean. Stick to your normal Italian size unless you’re deliberately layering underneath.
Footwear and boots are the easy bit — they come up true to size, so order your usual.

The Bit Most People Miss: Hemming

A lot of the trousers arrive unhemmed on purpose, so you can finish them to your exact length. This is a gift, not a hassle. My honest fashion fail: years ago I bought a gorgeous pair of wide-leg Italian trousers, decided they were “basically fine” pooling at the floor, and wore them out to dinner — promptly trod on the hem coming up from the Tube and tore the whole thing. Lesson learned. With a brand at this price, budget twenty quid and an afternoon for a tailor. The win version of that story: a client of mine, 5ft 3, had a pair taken up to a cropped break over a pointed flat and suddenly looked like she’d stepped out of a Milanese street-style shoot. Same trouser, completely different outcome — all in the hem.

My Styling Verdict

Treat Veronica de Piante as investment tailoring you’ll keep for a decade, not a trend buy. Size for the line you want, lean smaller on the relaxed trousers, get them hemmed, and let the knitwear do the heavy lifting. It’s the kind of wardrobe that looks like you’ve got your life entirely together, even when you haven’t.

Where to Shop the Look: My Tiered Picks

Because de Piante is a serious investment, here’s where I’d build the same relaxed-luxe, Italian-tailoring feeling across every budget. These rotate with my honest, unsponsored picks — no two of my posts give you the same line-up.

High Street

Massimo Dutti — the closest the high street gets to that quiet Italian polish; their wide-leg trousers and fine knits are the obvious starting point.
COS — minimalist, architectural, brilliant for clean wide-leg trousers and the kind of jumper that punches well above its price.
Mango — their tailoring department genuinely over-delivers; great for testing a wide-leg shape before you commit to luxury money.
Jigsaw — grown-up British tailoring and lovely natural fabrics, cut for real women rather than catwalk extremes.
Whistles — modern, considered tailoring with that easy off-duty drape de Piante does so well.
Reiss — sharper and a touch more structured, ideal when you want the relaxed look pulled slightly tighter.
Me&Em — elevated tailoring with proper attention to length and proportion, a gift if you’re tall.
Mint Velvet — soft, relaxed-luxe separates that nail the “effortless but expensive” mood.

Premium

Joseph — a tailoring and knitwear house with serious fabric credentials; the natural step up from the high street.
Sézane — Parisian, beautifully made, and unbeatable for the elevated everyday knit-and-trouser combination.
Sandro — French contemporary tailoring with that clean, slightly androgynous edge.

Luxury & Designer

Max Mara — the Italian benchmark for tailoring and coats; if you love de Piante, this is your spiritual home.
Totême — Scandinavian minimalism at its most refined, all clean lines and considered proportion.
By Malene Birger — elegant, fluid, grown-up dressing with a slightly softer, more romantic hand.

Two Independents Worth Knowing

St. Agni — an Australian minimalist label doing extraordinary leather, sculptural tailoring and that same quiet-luxury restraint, often at a kinder price than the big designer names.
Loulou Studio — a small Parisian brand obsessed with cashmere and knitwear; if it’s the de Piante jumpers you covet, start here.

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