Spring 2022 Menswear

The hype beasts are becoming hype men at Kith. As Ronnie Fieg’s business crosses to the other side of its first decade—and Fieg marks his 40th birthday this year—the splashy graphics and over-the-top logos that once defined Kith have been…

Virgil Abloh presented his fall 2021 Off-White collection at the haute couture shows in Paris last July. At the time the show read as a statement of confidence and ambition. “Off-White should be adult,” he told my colleague. With the…

Daniel Fletcher’s collection is an early bird arrival ahead of London Fashion Week. In fact this is his spring collection, which is ready to buy now. What’s to see here is less conceptual thematics than consolidation of his branding. By…

“I saw a video about Bob Fosse, and what really struck me was how many older men he had dancing, and how that looked really sexy and cool. Balding men as the sort of romantic lead—I loved it. And I thought, isn’t that funny? We’re used to…

A lot of designers vowed to pause, rethink, and do things differently during the pandemic. John Elliott’s spring 2022 collection is borne from this pause period, a time, he said, when he “wanted to be hopeful, control what I could control,…

What does “prep” mean in 2022? Redefining the term was Tommy Hilfiger’s mission for his new spring collection, roughly 40 years after he set the agenda with his original preppy sportswear. At a time when fashion trends are increasingly…

But to the collection. Abloh took chess as one of his organizing themes—for salient, timely reasons beyond the binary clash between the cultures of suits and tracksuits. “The game of chess, as it relates to life. This idea of two entities…

That fashion is entering its hedonistic phase seems certain, what with midriff-baring blazers, short shorts, and bodysuits on the runways—the men’s runways, that is. But Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are holding their course. Skimp is not in…

Live from Paseo del Prado park in the heart of Madrid, Alejandro Gomez Palomo put the irrepressible desire for a new colorful, exuberantly sexy glamour on the map with a flourish of Spanish pride. “We need heat, human heat after all this…

Having reconnected with nature while spending lockdown in her country home, Sandra Sandor shifted her focus back to the city for spring. The designer, who is pregnant with her first child, based this collection, called Harmónia, on memories…