With barely a second for the mud to choose 2025, a yr dubbed by commentators as ‘trend’s massive reset’ (look again on Wallpaper’s 25 trend moments of 2025 to see why), the cycle begins as soon as once more this January with the arrival of the A/W 2026 version of Males’s Vogue Week. As ever, this may embrace stops in Florence for Pitti Uomo, the historic menswear commerce truthful which occurs twice-yearly, Milan and Paris, the latter offering the majority of this season’s schedule.
Although notably quieter than Girls’s Vogue Week, which begins subsequent month in New York, there’ll nonetheless be quite a lot of intriguing moments to look out for – not least Jonathan Anderson’s sophomore menswear assortment for Dior, after debuting on the home final June. With quite a few big-name homes sitting out the lads’s schedule this season – together with Loewe, Balenciaga and Lanvin – it can doubtless show the standout present of the week. Elsewhere in Paris, Véronique Nichanian will maintain her swansong present for Hermès – a no-doubt heartfelt affair which is able to have fun a record-breaking 37-year tenure outlined by each business and significant success.
From this season’s roster of Pitti Uomo visitor designers to Paul Smith’s return to Milan, we look ahead to the approaching Males’s Vogue Week A/W 2026 and the schedule’s defining moments.
Pitti Uomo (13–16 January 2025)
A glance from Hed Mayner’s S/S 2026 assortment. He’ll present his A/W 2026 assortment as a part of Pitti Uomo in Florence
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Hed Mayner)
Historic menswear truthful Pitti Uomo, which centres round Florence’s 14th-century Fortezza da Basso – in addition to a handful of dramatic places throughout the Cradle of the Renaissance – takes place twice-yearly, coinciding with Males’s Vogue Month (typically, attendees take the prepare from Florence to Milan after its conclusion, the place the month continues). Alongside the primary truthful – which is able to see showcases from Brunello Cucinelli, Piacenza 1773 and Caruso, amongst others – are a handful of visitor designers, which this season are headlined by Hed Mayner, who will present his A/W 2026 assortment on the occasion (earlier visitor designers have included Raf Simons, Grace Wales Bonner and Martine Rose, amongst others).
Mayner, who exhibits every season in Paris and is understood for his creative riffs on wardrobe staples, says he’s ‘excited to point out [his] work in such an amazingly wealthy and historic metropolis like Florence… This new context will encourage me to attempt new issues.’ He’ll present within the Palazzina Reale di Santa Maria Novella, an imposing modernist constructing in the identical advanced as Santa Maria Novella station. He can be joined by fellow visitor designer Soshi Otsuki, who hails from Japan and gained the 2025 LVMH Prize for Younger Vogue Designers. He has chosen the refectory of Santa Maria Novella church for the event, expressing his ‘deep honour’ to be chosen as one of many season’s visitor designers.
Milan Vogue Week Males’s (16–19 January 2025)
Prada’s S/S 2026 menswear present. The A/W 2026 assortment can be one among Milan Vogue Week Males’s standout moments
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Prada)
On Friday 16 January, eyes will flip to Milan, the place the Italian type capital will host the most recent version of Milan Vogue Week Males’s. Regardless of a considerably scant schedule – definitely compared to Paris – there stays a handful of exhibits which is able to little question outline the season forward. Most notably, Prada, the place Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons will present their newest assortment on Sunday afternoon (the home’s extremely influential collections typically will set the tone for the upcoming month of exhibits, and past). Zegna, in the meantime, will change from closing proceedings to opening them – the home will now present at 3pm on Friday 16 January – whereas Ralph Lauren will make his return to the Milan runway with a menswear presentation that very same night. Paul Smith can also be returning to Milan after exhibiting within the metropolis final season; he joins a raft of the town’s mainstays, together with Dolce & Gabbana, DSquared2 and Giorgio Armani, the latter internet hosting the primary menswear present for the reason that loss of life of the home’s eponymous founder final September. Emporio Armani, in the meantime, will sit this menswear season out.
Paris Vogue Week Males’s (20–25 January 2025)
A glance from Willy Chavarria’s S/S 2026 runway present. The American designer will proceed to point out in Paris this season
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Willy Chavarria)
Making up the majority of the schedule is Paris Vogue Week Males’s, which is able to start with a no-doubt blockbuster present from Pharrell Williams at Louis Vuitton on January 20 and run all the way in which till the night of January 25 (Jacquemus will shut the month on Sunday evening). Standout moments embrace a much-anticipated sophomore males’s assortment from Jonathan Anderson at Dior – his first present final summer season was critically lauded, and arrived in shops earlier this January – whereas Véronique Nichanian will bow out after a 37-year tenure at Hermès. She’s going to maintain a ultimate present on the night of Saturday 24 January, earlier than her successor, British designer Grace Wales Bonner, takes over the Parisian home’s menswear collections later this yr. New to the schedule this season is underground Bologna-based label Magliano (the model often exhibits in Milan), becoming a member of a roster of main names together with Rick Owens, Comme des Garçons, Dries Van Noten, Issey Miyake and Sacai. In the meantime, Willy Chavarria – one of many Wallpaper* USA 400 for 2025 – will proceed to point out in Paris this season, the third season exhibiting away from his native New York.
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