Eidos is a menswear lifestyle brand launched under Italian brand ISAIA. Antonio Ciongoli brought the concept to ISAIA and co-founded the brand in January 2013; it launched in autumn of the same year. Centered on blurring the boundaries between sportswear and tailoring, it offers a wide range of items, including jackets and trousers. The designs are created in New York and manufactured in Italy. Eidos is produced at ISAIA’s factory in Naples, as well as at the Michelangelo factory, located between Rome and Naples. The brand name comes from the Greek philosophical term eidos, and is said to connect ideas of “essence” and “reflection” with style and clothing. As its official website was not hosted, the brand was considered closed as of 2020.
Concept
The name Eidos is from Greek philosophy, meaning "the essence of something, what something really is," and is tied to the idea of "absolute truth" and that humans can only see a "reflection" of it—applied to style and clothing.