The 9 Fall-Winter 2026 Menswear Trends to Try Right Now
Power puffers, going-out tops, and skunk hair were all over the runways this season.
This menswear season, we witnessed new creative directors find their groove after last year’s whirlwind changing of the guards placed them at the helm of new maisons, and we saw tenured heads-of-house sharpen and remix their signatures for the fall 2026 slate.
Louis Vuitton’s Pharrell and Auralee’s Ryota Iwai both sent colorful, nostalgia-tinged jackets down their runways—a shared sensibility GQ’s Samuel Hine coined “retro romanticism.” At Dior, Jonathan Anderson found inspiration in the indie musician Mk.gee and presented several sleazy, skin-baring silhouettes with a slight, borrowed-from-the-girls edge. Dries Van Noten’s protégée Julian Klausner opted for colorful, knit takes on classic suiting details like smocked cummerbunds and crocheted storm flaps. He topped them with perfect, poindexter spectacles.
