Palm Angels taps Leonardo DiCaprio for its new shirts The SS20 collection of the brand reproduces the shirts worn by Leo in 'Romeo+Juliet'

There is an item that returns cyclically every summer in the menwear wardrobe: the Hawaiian shirt. Just take a look at the collections proposed during the Milan Men's Fashion Week that recently ended with the understanding that the SS20 will be its season.

From Dolce & Gabbana to Dsquared2, from Marni to Etro, there are lots of brands that have chosen to redesign this iconic garment according to their own style, some in a more Eastern version, some in a more abstract version. The show by Palm Angels attracted the most attention, in particular, that of @diet_prada. Under the corridors of the Porta Venezia underground, Francesco Ragazzi staged his personal vintage American store, a mix'n' match of leather shirts with contrasting utility pockets, outerwear with butterfly prints, tailored evolutions of jogger pants, boxy jackets, basketball vests. The real key piece? The aloha shirts inspired by Romeo+Juliet by Baz Luhrmann. The designer, in fact, has reproduced two of the shirts worn by Leonardo di Caprio in the iconic 1996 film: the one with the flowers on a blue background and the one with a wounded and flaming heart.

In recent years the Hawaiian shirt has returned to be a trend chosen by luxury brands such as Prada, Saint Laurent or Paul Smith. And now also by Palm Angels. Nothing strange because you know, fashion is cyclical and everything returns to be cool. The question that remains, as suggested by @diet_prada, is whether it's right or wrong for a brand to propose this as its own garment seeing that it has already appeared in a film and when instances like these are tributes or plain copies to hide the lack of original ideas.