There are seasons when the most radical gesture is not to accelerate, but to slow down. When progress does not coincide with movement, but with the ability to stop and choose. “Not This Year” is born from this intuition: not as a rejection of the future, but as an act of awareness. A pause that does not interrupt time, but reorients it.
It is from here that the collaboration between Pineider 1774 and ASPESI takes shape—two Italian realities that may seem distant, yet are deeply aligned. Both share a clear vision: time is not a resource to be consumed, but a space to be inhabited. Quality is not a detail, but a responsibility. Durability is not a promise, but a fact.
Over the years, ASPESI has built an essential, functional language, far removed from the hysteria of fashion trends. A silent aesthetic that finds strength in subtraction, coherence, and fidelity to itself. Pineider 1774, a historic Florentine maison, has safeguarded for over two centuries the art of writing, paper, and leather goods, transforming the slow act of writing into a cultural value. In both cases, style is never decoration, but choice.
The “Not This Year” capsule is born from the meeting of these two visions. Not a branding exercise, but a shared reflection on time as a deliberate act, not a deadline. An invitation to step away from constant urgency and restore meaning to everyday gestures.
This philosophy takes shape in a selection of essential, measured garments and accessories, deliberately free of clamour. Objects designed to accompany, not to impose. Yet the intimate and narrative heart of the capsule is the Pineider 1774 x ASPESI planner.
With the words “NOT THIS YEAR” impressed on the cover, the planner is conceived as perpetual, usable at any moment, in any year. It does not dictate a rhythm or impose goals. Inside, an initial insert features the complete calendar of the year, followed by a series of pages marked by non-motivational phrases: they do not suggest what to do, but leave space for the writer. An object that accompanies rather than guides, inviting one to choose what truly deserves to be written down.
In an era obsessed with productivity, the planner thus becomes a silent manifesto. Writing not to fill space, but to clarify. Marking time not to control it, but to give it weight.
Available at the Milan flagship store and on aspesi.it, the “Not This Year” capsule visually and materially translates this attitude.