There’s a particular magic to those hours when night bleeds into morning, when formalwear softens with wear and beach sand sticks to last night’s good shoes. This is where Dries Van Noten‘s Spring/Summer 2026 collection lives: in that golden, rumpled space between black-tie and bare feet.

Creative director Julian Klausner builds his first men’s collection for the house like a love letter to contradictions. A double-breasted satin coat flares dramatically over ribbed cycling shorts. A tuxedo jacket shrugs off its formality with cropped trousers. Evening tops borrow feminine boat necks while maintaining razor-sharp tailoring. The effect isn’t genderless so much as genre-less, clothes that refuse to stay in their lanes.

Fabrics tell their own stories of collision. Glossy satins rub against nubby jacquards recalling vintage pajamas. Delicate pointelle knits contrast with thick repurposed textiles from the brand’s archive. Embroideries that would feel at home on evening jackets instead glimmer across drawstring shorts, like confetti caught in daylight.

Accessories feel like treasures collected over summers: shell fragments strung on gold wire, a lover’s ring worn as a pendant. Shoes hybridize dress and sport, oxfords with athletic laces, sneakers rendered in pastel satins. Bags slouch with the easy confidence of something thrown together last minute but perfect nonetheless.

Check out the collection below: