Gant has officially found its new leading man and he looks perfectly at home on the streets of Manhattan. Announcing British actor Theo James as its new Global Brand Ambassador, the heritage brand kicks off its Autumn/Winter 2026 campaign by grounding classic East Coast collegiate style in the wild, but cinematic reality of New York City.
“At Gant, we’ve always believed that great style is defined by authenticity and quality,” says Fredrik Malm, CEO of Gant. “Theo embodies those values naturally, making him an ideal partner as we continue to share our vision of modern American sportswear with audiences around the world.”
Photographed on location in Tribeca, ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘The Gentlemen’ star navigates cobblestone street corners and iron-fronted buildings with the timeless American sportswear we’re used to seeing by the brand. “What drew me to Gant is that it feels timeless.
The legacy of the brand is respected while remaining completely relevant today,” says James. “There’s an honesty in that balance.
The clothes have an ease that’s unmistakable, expressed with a refinement that never goes out of style.”
The collection favours a return to the relaxed, confident energy of 1990s New York, but modernised for a more practical and versatile wardrobe. Heavy texture and functional layering drive the technical narrative, using rich corduroy, brushed wools and dense moleskin fabrics to establish a robust autumnal uniform.
This is executed through sharp tailoring options like unstructured suit jackets, pinstriped trousers and a looser, country-house aesthetic found in matching corduroy separates. The collection’s outer layer focus introduces heavy-duty investments including plush shearling peacoats, rugged aviator jackets and utility-driven overshirts.
The casual and mid-layer segments reinforce this textured approach, featuring soft suede button-downs, substantial heavy ruggers and a range of fine-knit insulation pieces like mouliné turtlenecks and patterned crew necks. These tops style effortlessly over everyday staples like slim-fit overdyed denim or classic poplin and brushed Oxford shirts. The final layout is rounded out by timeless accessories, including suede loafers, checked wool scarves and braided belts.
The Gant Autumn/Winter 2026 campaign is available to discover now across digital platforms, global retail locations and online. Find out more here .
photography. courtesy of Gant words. Gennaro Costanzo
Sweater weather is coming soon, and AMI Paris is already dressing for it – but not in a boring way. For Autumn/Winter 2026 , Alexandre Mattiussi casts a group of familiar faces from the house’s own orbit, letting them wear the collection in a series of portraits photographed by Karim Sadli that fully express their personalities.
Rebecca Leigh, Saskia de Brauw, George Anderson, Jia Jingwen, Dara Gueye, Mack Karpes, Elliot Belot and Mohamed Benhadda have all walked for Ami Paris before, some more than once, and return here as something closer to friends of the house. Their different characters come through in the portraits, giving the collection eight individual ways of being an Ami person.
Tailoring arrives in generous proportions, including double-breasted camel coats, pleated trousers and herringbone jackets, while softer layers introduce argyle knitwear, striped shirts, roomy denim and substantial scarves. Outerwear plays a major role too, with oversized coats, fleece pieces and textured jackets that winter dressing promptly calls for.
Colour keeps the otherwise earthy wardrobe from becoming too sensible. Camel, grey, brown and cream form the foundation, with deeper natural shades and flashes of Ami red appearing across knitwear, shirts, caps and smaller details.
The red is particularly effective because it links back to the brand’s instantly recognisable heart motif without covering every available surface in logos. Elsewhere, faux-croc textures, leopard-print outerwear and cleaner oversized denim add a little more fun to the wardrobe.
Accessories bring some of the campaign’s most recognisable pieces into focus, with the Carrousel bag arriving in burgundy crocodile-embossed leather, while the Mirage sneaker continues Ami’s move towards a more technical-looking trainer. Baseball caps finish several of the looks, including the anniversary-minded ‘ Thank You for Being a Friend’ version that has become something of a calling card for the house.
The AMI Paris Autumn/Winter 2026 collection is available now across global boutiques and online. Discover more here .
photography. courtesy of Karim Sadli for AMI Paris words. Gennaro Costanzo
There are not many places in Rome where a goddess, a diesel engine and a Valentino garment can comfortably share the same frame, but we should know Alessandro Michele can make his vision manifest anywhere. For Autumn/Winter 2026 , Valentino heads to Centrale Montemartini for ‘Interferenze’, a campaign photographed by Glen Luchford that places the collection among marble statues, giant machines and the remnants of the Eternal City’s industrial past.
Built in the early 20th century as Rome’s first public electricity plant, Centrale Montemartini was converted into a satellite venue of the Capitoline Museums in 1997. Today, classical Roman statuary sits alongside turbines, alternators, flywheels and overhead cranes, creating an unexpected collision that fits neatly into Michele’s creative vocabulary.
‘Interferenze’ takes that unlikely combination and pushes it further, transforming the museum into a peculiar meeting ground between antiquity and machinery. “[…] The age of gods and that of machines, myth and progress, memory and invention no longer belong to separate temporalities,” Michele writes.
The classical figures of Fortuna, Polyhymnia and Queen Cleopatra appear among the enormous industrial structures, while models Apolline , George Anderson, Qiuyue Li, Joe Bottomer and Dario Tonin mirror the poses of the sculptures around them. Marble bodies and living ones begin to resemble each other, with the clothing caught somewhere between the two.
The ready-to-wear pieces present a rich study in fluid forms and historical references, accentuating Michele’s layered aesthetic. The lightness of a pink draped dress confronts the gravity of the stone, while the new Valentino Garavani Panthea Bag and architectural Fatale Pumps introduce contemporary coordinates to the layout. Oversized acetate sunglasses from the new eyewear line mask the model’ gaze, adding a modern layer of anonymity that echoes the blank stare of the surrounding statues.
Michele defines the friction behind the visuals as “a transmutation that does not affect the individual elements, but rather the force field generated between them.” The campaign also plays with the way photographs are read, as your eye jumps from a sleeve to a carved face, from a pair of shoes to an enormous, statuesque bust. Michele also connects the idea to Aby Warburg’s ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’ and Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of montage, where meaning comes from the collision between images rather than from any single image alone.
The Valentino Autumn/Winter 2026 collection is available now in boutiques globally and online. Discover more here .
photography. courtesy of Glen Luchford for Valentino words. Gennaro Costanzo
Brick Lane had a YSL takeover last night and the guest list made the vintage trove shine more than ever. YSL Beauty brought its ‘Block Party’ to Rough Trade East , filling the East London record shop with Skepta , Romeo Beckham , Cruz Beckham , Lila Moss and a long list of the city’s fashion and music crowd.
The evening was tied to Black Opium Pink Glaze, the newest addition to YSL Beauty’s best-known night-time fragrance franchise. Alisha Boe , the brand’s Global Ambassador and new face of Black Opium, got the party moving before Lola Young took over for an exclusive live performance. “The Black Opium girl to me is fun, unapologetically herself, and daring,” she told Schön! in an exclusive interview .
The choice of Rough Trade East was a smart one: sitting on Brick Lane, the venue carries the sort of music-first history that suits YSL Beauty’s long relationship with artists and nightlife far better than another anonymous luxury event space could. The ‘Block Party’ series began in Madrid before travelling through a string of cities, with each edition taking cues from its local creative scene.
London got the full East End treatment, with records, fashion, fragrance and live music occupying the same room.
Alisha Boe for YSL Beauty at the London Block Party.
The YSL Beauty Block Party in London and Lola Young.
Pink Glaze supplied the evening’s beauty hook. Launched as a new interpretation of Black Opium, the fragrance keeps the original coffee-floral signature but adds a juicy strawberry accord, sensual jasmine and an amber-wood base. The bottle has also been given a darker pink lacquer with a black centre and the familiar YSL Cassandre, making the new scent look almost as ready for a night out as the people wearing it.
The scent marks another chapter for Black Opium, which launched in 2014 as the first feminine fragrance to put black coffee at the heart of its composition and has since become one of YSL Beauty’s major fragrance names. Pink Glaze takes that recognisable coffee accord somewhere fruitier, with the strawberry developed from a naturally extracted ingredient and jasmine sourced from the YSL Ourika Community Gardens.
Romeo Beckham and Lola Young by Jeff Spicer.
Discover the new Black Opium Pink Glaze here .
photography. courtesy of Jeff Spicer , YSL Beauty words. Gennaro Costanzo