“Close to Positano, there are age-old myths of mermaids and underwater garden worlds. These fables from Southern Italy have influenced my imagination over the years — the Neapolitan sea is, no doubt, a place of endless inspiration. With this collection, I’m letting you dive into the dream with me—and splicing it with a high fashion fantasy,” says Giuliano Calza, Creative Director of GCDS.
As Calza’s fashion journey continues to evolve, the designer has found himself on a proverbial island in the sun, shining with surreal brilliance far beyond the horizon. In this paradise, there’s an element of escapism, and the freedom one might find in getting away from the turmoil of the past eighteen months. Throughout this nautical frontier, Calza’s favorite fashion fixations have become the stylings of a water-world fairytale. They revel in both relaxation and hedonism; they’re a prologue to a bright new future.
To present Spring/Summer 2022—the first collection shown since GCDS sold a majority stake position to the Made in Italy Fund—Calza conceived and directed a short fantasy film. After the success of the Fall/Winter 2021 digital catwalk (which amounted over 1.5 million views), this season marks step two in demonstrating Calza’s fantastical imagination. The film tracks the collection through the oft unusual monotony of day-to-day life, extending across a barren desert. It concludes, however, with the discovery of a new paradise. Against an imaginative aquarium, a symbol of this brave and bright new future, anthropomorphic crossover is possible and mythic beauty suddenly becomes real.
When it comes to creativity, I begin everything from a place of deep resonance,” says Calza. “I take these cues and emotions and power them by seeing optimism and brightness at the end of the tunnel. Living life is all about growth and getting through the tough parts, so, this collection and this film are a representation of that. Of hitting a point of liberty and ecstasy.”
After showing off-calendar for two seasons in a presentation format, the 2023 LVMH Prize-nominated designer Kartik Kumra is now the first Indian designer to be on the official menswear calendar.
SANKUANZ’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection finds its heartbeat in Tara, the Tibetan Buddhist goddess who exists between two worlds, both enlightened and earthly.
For SS26, Hung La’s LỰU ĐẠN closes its trilogy “MAYHEM,” “YOU DON’T BELONG HERE,” and now “NO MAN’S LAND”, with a collection that stares straight at the people society ignores.
Marine Serre‘s Spring/Summer 2026 collection is about the quiet revolution happening in every stitch. Titled THE SOURCE, this is clothing that moves with purpose, crafted by hands that treat savoir-faire not as a relic, but as rebellion.
C.R.E.O.L.E.’s DOM TOP FEVER collection is a reckoning. It digs into displacement, memory, and the act of reclaiming stories that have been buried or distorted.
Entitled ‘The Boy Who Jumped the Moon’, this latest KidSuper collection explored key notions of naïveté, innocence and dreams, which are some of the defining characteristics of any childhood.
Take a look at LAZOSCHMIDL’s Spring/Summer 2026 presentation, captured by the lens of Rita Castel-Branco during Paris Fashion Week, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
For White Mountaineering’s SS26 collection, designer Yosuke Aizawa looks back to the 1970s, when gear like Kelty’s aluminum frame packs and early Gore-Tex jackets redefined what clothing could endure.
A$AP Rocky took over Paris’ L’Eglise Protestante Unie de l’Etoile to prove one thing: what starts as a uniform, a necessity, or even something dismissed as “ghetto” can become the blueprint for luxury.
Take a look at Drôle de Monsieur’s Spring/Summer 2026 backstage, captured by the lens of Tiago Pestana during Paris Fashion Week, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
Dior has always been a cultural language. For Summer 2026, Creative Director Jonathan Anderson plays with that lexicon, stretching its history into new shapes.
Take a look at CAMPERLAB’s Spring/Summer 2026 backstage, captured by the lens of Rita Castel-Branco during Paris Fashion Week, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
Turn the page. Breathe deep. Your pupils are already dilating. The high is coming.
Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance creating a space where glamour
meets exhaustion.
