The journey for one of Luca Faloni’s linen shirts begins in the flax fields of Normandy, northern France, though, as the designer asserts, they are 100 per cent Italian in their construction.

Uniqlo’s linen collections include, apart from the Premium Linen, pieces made from linen blends and linen cotton. Linen blend is linen combined with hybrid nylon yarn while linen cotton uses the ...