Fiat Topolino Vilebrequin: a summer to drive and wear

Fiat mute mouse vilebrequin It has a short and decisive step of the well -designed things. It is the only electric that seems to be born to accompany a mojito And a book by Colette. The result of a refined collaboration between two icons of the Mediterranean lifestyle, this 100% electric microcar was born from the encounter between Olivier FrançoisCEO of Fiat and creative mind of the Stellantis group, e Roland HerloryCEO of Vilebrequin. The meeting, suggested by Augusto Capitanucci (Hublot Italia), was the spark to transform the urban mobility in a fashion gesture.

The debut? Al Alpemare bath by Andrea Bocelli in Forte dei Marmi, where the Fiat Topolino Vilebrequin paraded between marine lines, tanned looks and stylized turtles. Here, in the most sophisticated pearl of Versilia, Vilebrequin is at home: The brand has two boutiquesone dedicated to the male world and the other (the first in Italy) to womanboth in via Giuseppe Mazzini respectively to the number 9 and 11. A launch, therefore, which smells of sun, sugar paper and sun cream with black (essence of flowers d.

From left: Roland Herlory, CEO of Vilebrequin; Olivier François, CEO of Fiat and creative mind of the Stellantis group

From the engine tree to the bathing walkway

Vilebrequin was born in 1971 in Saint-Tropez, in that season of life in which everything seems possible and nothing is urgent. Fred Prysquelautomotive journalist with the trained eye to Motorsport, sews a swimsuit inspired by the Californian surfer boxers. He does it to conquer a girl: she succeeds, she becomes his wife. The shop opens under the imperturbable sun of the most iconic village of the Riviera. Inside, one Wrought iron snail staircase. Prysquel looks at her and thinks: it looks like a crankshaft. In French, vilebrequin. Thus the name arises. A bridge between the universe of engines and the beach imagination.

But Vilebrequin has not become an icon by chance. The brand called a precise aesthetic, that of who walks barefoot with easewho wears the linen with the same security with which you drive a boat. The costumes, first designed for men, become symbols of family complicity thanks to Coordinated models for fathers and children. Each press tells a story, every stylized turtle It is an invitation to take your time.

Today Vilebrequin is present in over 60 countries, with boutiques from Miami to Tokyo, but remains faithful to a simple principle: the lightness is a serious matter. It is not alone beachwearis an idea of ​​freedom with attention to the smallest details. Just like Mickey Mouse.

Collectible design, sustainable soul

There FIAT Topolino Vilebrequin Collector’s Edition It comes from the same obsession with the details. The two -tone livery in white and blue marine It recalls the stroke umbrellas of the sixties, the caps folds with elegance, the rear luggage rack seems to be squeezed by a wasp that made the Grand Tour. Under the upright B on the driver side, one integrated shower To wash the sand off the feet. Inside, seats embroidered with the famous turtlechromed entrance thresholds, details in Nautical Teak and one Dolcevita box which includes accessories and letters personally signed by François and Herlory.

The shower of the Fiat Topolino Vilebrequin.

The shower of the Fiat Topolino Vilebrequin.

Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse

A clean heart is hidden under the bodywork: 8 -horsepower electric motor, 5.4 kWh battery, autonomy up to 75 kilometers and maximum speed of 45 km/h. It measures just 2.53 meters in length per 1.40 width, with a weight less than 500 kg. It is driven with AM license, already from 14 years. In a word: freedom.

This Mickey Mouse is the manifesto of a New idea of ​​urban elegance. A microcar designed to move slowly, gracefully. To park next to a bistrot in Nice or turn light through the Capalbio pine forests. And yes, also to exhibit nonchalance with an accessory that does not go unnoticed.

Fashion, mobility and desire

The Mickey Mouse has redesigned the rules of the game in the world of microcars. In a transformation market, where electrification has become the new frontier of daily luxury, this model has been able to interpret the change with intelligence. Today in Italy the electric microcar have passed the combustion ones And the Mickey Mouse has become the reference. The only one capable of speaking both parents and children, thanks to the possibility of being guided starting from 14 years.

Vilebrequin and Fiat share a hentle vision: make the newspaper an aesthetic experience. If for the French brand it means drawing customs that transform the beach into a stage, for the Turin house it translates into light, ironic, never banal mobility. A way of dealing with reality at low speed, but with very high intensity. Luxury is not gold, but the gesture. It is the art of removing, of choosing well, of lasting. The Fiat Topolino Vilebrequin is not a summer whim, it is a declaration of belonging to a kinder idea of ​​the future.

Topolinovilebrequin Forte dei Marmi 3 July 2025.
Mickey -Vilebrequin – Forte dei Marmi – 3 July 2025. (Photo by Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse)Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse

A summer to wear (and drive)

The Fiat Topolino Vilebrequin does not just tell a new way of traveling. It is part of that category of objects that define an era: like Capri sandals, like the white shirt on savory skin, like a forgotten book on the bed. It is a car, indeed, a microcar. But also a private beach on wheels, an entire costume with steering wheel, an invitation to find slowness.

In a summer dominated by visual overload, consumption and noises, she arrives: discreet, elegant, essential. Electric. With a List price of 13,500 euros – Less than you would spend a season in the front row at the Alpemare Bathroom by Andrea Bocelli, the Vilebrequin Mickey Mouse is the only car that you may want to park under a fig tree, or use to get to an aperitif in the Pareo.

Source: Vanity Fair

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