Milano Fashion Week SS26: all the menswear trends for next summer
From Prada to Stone Island, and through Milan’s most stylish streets, here’s what we’ll be wearing (and dreaming of) next summer.
Who said menswear was boring clearly didn’t see Milan, June 2025. Prada evokes the four elements, Stone Island heads to California, and Dolce&Gabbana puts us in pyjamas. Menswear SS26 is a tale of contrasts, ease and mind-traveling far beyond the holiday season.
Men’s Fashion Week SS26 played out like a clever puzzle of long-awaited debuts, eccentric returns, and expertly choreographed twists. The key vibe? Summer isn’t just a season, it’s an attitude.
Whether you’re back in the office with salt still on your skin or strutting around town in a hybrid beach suit, the message is loud and clear: less formal, more personal.
And if clothes don’t make the man, pyjamas sure make the gentleman.
Prada signs off the summer
The SS26 menswear collection is an ode to the four elements, earth, fire, air and water, shaping textures and palettes through fluid trousers, openwork knits and sentimental hiker accessories. It’s a post-vacation wardrobe for those who are back but still resisting the return to open-plan offices.
Dolce&Gabbana delivers the chicest idleness
Pyjamas go daytime and become the ultimate summer uniform. Stripes, silks, jewel buttons, the Sicilian label rewrites the dress code with a tailored spin. The vibe is brunch-with-a-view, even if you’re stuck in the city.
Vivienne Westwood blends British roots with Italian ease
Floral ink drawings by Dominic Myatt meet a fabric mix of tweed, poplin, striped cotton and suede. The collection is a cultural handshake between Savile Row and the Navigli, urban dandyism meets dolce far niente in the sun.
Stone Island flies to California and takes us with it
The inspiration? Mono Lake, a suspended ecosystem between desert and sea. The colour palette stretches from deep blues to sandy beiges, and fabrics are as experimental as ever: heat-sensitive textures, high-tech jersey, enzyme-treated denim. Poetic workwear that works.
Ralph Lauren Purple Label sails into a collector’s summer
Fine fabrics, nautical flair, and that nostalgic sense of adventure only Ralph can conjure. The new wardrobe is for refined travellers, with light coats, airy silks and yacht-ready knitwear. Espadrilles? A must.
And Church’s? Timeless, but lighter
The iconic Shanghai shoe, born in 1929, returns in a version that’s anything but vintage. A more flexible Goodyear construction, cushioned leather soles, and brogue details. British elegance never fades, it just gets a tan.
Street style? Less hypebeast, more soft power
Outside the shows, the dress code was clear: blend heritage and now—but no shouting. Wide-leg cargo trousers stay in the game, only now in neutral tones. Knit tank tops peek out from under unstructured blazers, and on the feet: a new urban classicism of loafers, sporty sandals and sleek sneakers. Baseball caps are still omnipresent, but now they’re paired with linen suits. Milan’s answer to global chaos? Less show-off, more slow-cool.
Milan SS26 rewrites the summer man’s playbook: less posing, more poetry
A mix of escapism, function and irony that bids farewell to stiff formality and embraces the “living moodboard” aesthetic.
