Windsor Knot

A prominent necktie knot, forming a perfect triangle, said to have been the creation of the Duke of Windsor before he renounced the throne, even though there are pictures of his father already wearing his tie knotted in this fashion. In any case, it was he, the former king Edward VIII, sensitive to all forms of elegance, who launched this knot in the world of men’s fashion at the time. In Italy it was called, in an uninspired name, in the 1940s the “nodo Scappino” after the Turin tie manufacturer that had first explained how the know was done. In those years in Italy it was advisable not to use foreign words, and in particular terms that referred in any way “perfidious Albion” were especially taboo.