Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent menswear show for Summer 2026 is quiet but deliberate. It is about light, presence, and the space between things. Set in the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, the collection exists in a moment between places (part Paris, part Fire Island), where escape and elegance meet.
The inspiration is subtle. It pays tribute to artists who gave shape to desire, names like Stanton, Angus, and Ellis. And to Yves Saint Laurent himself, who in 1974 stepped away only to return with something new. Vaccarello does not look back in nostalgia. He moves forward.
The setting matches the mood. Instead of nighttime drama, the show unfolds in clear afternoon light. No filters, no artificial glow, just simplicity. The clothes follow. Silhouettes are precise but never heavy. Waists taper, shoulders extend, yet everything feels effortless. Fabrics like silk and nylon drift over the body. Colors are soft: sand, salt, pale ochre, dry moss, pool blue. Nothing shouts. Everything lingers.
At the center is clinamen, an installation by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, a pool where porcelain bowls float, touch, and create their own quiet music. The clothes move the same way: natural, unhurried. Shorts echo those once worn by a young Yves, but this is not a reference. It is a return.
1974 was a pause. 2026 is what comes after. Not tribute, not memory, but a line that continues. The models do not perform. They simply are. And in that quiet presence, there is sensuality without show, elegance without need for words.
The offering is relaxed yet polished. It includes rugby shirts, lightweight shell jackets, and everyday T-shirts that speak to the brand’s modern-prep influences.
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PUMA’s Talon sneaker, first launched in 2004, is a relic from a specific time. It’s a shoe pulled from the archive, but its new collaboration with NO/FAITH Studios is about more than just nostalgia.
This season confirms SHOOP’s design approach. It draws from the everyday and reinterprets it through a poetic, modern lens, creating a language that joins the functional with the emotional.
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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.
