“Summer is a chance to see places you’ve never seen, or go back to places you’ve been going your whole life. Spending as much time as you can outside. Letting Loose.” – Michael Rider
Michael Rider presented his first standalone menswear runway for CELINE at the Tennis Club de Paris, closing Paris Men’s Fashion Week with a collection that reinforced the direction he has been building since taking over the French house. After introducing his vision through co-ed presentations, this season, we get a focused look at the CELINE man. You have to remember that the house has only been doing men’s for less than a decade. Among the most anticipated shows of the week, the front row was made up of V, Oscar Isaac, Grace Jones, Finn Wolfhard, Park Bo-gum, J.Y. Park, Adrien Brody, along with editors and stylists favored by the house.
Rider continued to evolve the house’s identity through a wardrobe built on permanence and personality. His show notes spoke of “packing light,” authenticity, heirlooms, and taking risks, ideas that translated into tailoring softened by ease, fluid separates, and clothing that appeared collected over time instead of assembled for a single season. Sharp jackets were paired with relaxed trousers, crisp shirting sat beneath lightweight outerwear, and knitwear brought texture, however it is really about details as much as ease, as a subtle bohemian spirit ran throughout the collection.
The real statement was not relying on statement pieces, opting instead for references to music, movement, sincerity, spending time outdoors and returning to familiar places hinted at a slower, more considered approach to dressing. As Rider concluded in his notes, he is “building toward something bigger, something with legs and roots”. What we got left with and the immediate reactions are a sense of optimism.
Karl Lagerfeld has announced a new footwear collaboration with G.H.Bass, marking the American brand’s 150-year shoemaking heritage and the 90th anniversary of its Weejuns penny loafer.
BYREDO reopens its Madrid boutique with a new visual identity, just as its latest fragrance, Future Memories, asks us to think about the moments we are living now and the memories they might become.
SOREL and Aries return with the Daystorm Chukka Boot, a limited-edition take on the Caribou with shearling lining, pony hair details, and a Vibram sole.
Telfar Clemens returned to the runway with a large fashion event in Brooklyn, presenting his SS27 collection alongside a publicly announced livestream viewing in Paris.
Photographer Anthony Pomes brings us a selection of looks photographed outside the Lacoste show set at the iconic Rolland Garros during Paris Fashion Week, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
Niccolò Pasqualetti’s SS27 collection approaches the garment not as a static object, but as an encounter between form, perception, and the physical self.
Lacoste SS27 at Roland Garros revisits the moment tennis loosened its dress code, with relaxed tailoring, clay-marked hems and a wardrobe built for movement.
Julian Zigerli has released a limited edition of silk foulards as part of the FOREVERLI Archive Edition, honouring the FOREVERLI Show and its many artist collaborations.
Aesop has written a new chapter for its fragrance collection, fusing its mastery of raw essential oils with its long-standing reverence for literature.
Take a look at ALAINPAUL’s Spring/Summer 2027 backstage, captured by the lens of Rita Castel-Branco during Paris Fashion Week, in an exclusive for Fucking Young!
Drôle de Monsieur and Doobie’s have celebrated their collaboration in Paris, unveiling an exclusive wardrobe created for the team of the Parisian institution as it reopened its doors.
For Issue 28, TRANSPARENCY, we explore the shifting relationship between what is revealed and what remains concealed, questioning ideas of authenticity, identity, vulnerability, and self-expression in an increasingly exposed world.
