Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: live updates from the Wallpaper* team

From 24-29 June, Paris Fashion Week Men’s arrives in the French capital. Follow along for a first look at the shows, presentations and other fashion happenings, as seen by the Wallpaper* editors

Welcome to Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

And so begins the final leg of men’s fashion month, which, after stops in Florence – for the Pitti Uomo menswear fair – and Milan, arrives in Paris this week with a packed six-day-long schedule. Proceedings will begin on Tuesday with a blockbuster opening day: both Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton will show their S/S 2026 collections, where you can expect starry front rows and visual spectacles (the slightly more understated Japanese label Auralee will be sandwiched in between).

Though it is Jonathan Anderson’s debut collection for Dior – where he now heads up the Parisian house’s womenswear, menswear and haute couture collections – on Friday afternoon will provide the week’s most anticipated moment. This past week, Anderson has released a handful of teasers: photographs of Lee Radziwill and Jean-Michel Basquiat by Andy Warhol, overlaid with the Dior logo, a series of book bags adorned with the title pages of Dracula by Bram Stoker and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and a series of silver pin cushions. Today, the brand posted a video of French football star Kylian Mbappé in a grey Dior suit.

‘As I started out on this journey, I kept returning to these photographs of Basquiat and Radziwill who are both, for me, the epitome of style,’ Anderson said in a statement on Sunday (22 May 2025). ‘Kylian Mbappé is the voice of a generation and an inspiration to many people in the world of sport and beyond,’ he added today. Curious? So are the Wallpaper* editors – when we asked them what they were looking forward to over Men’s Fashion Month, all of them chose his debut as the moment to watch out for.

Other notable moments include ‘Temple of Love’, a retrospective of Rick Owens’ work at Paris’ Palais Galliera (its opening will coincide with the designer’s S/S 2026 menswear show), buzzy American designer Willy Chavarria’s sophomore show in Paris (he shifted from New York last season), and Grace Wales Bonner’s return to the runway (expect a typically poetic, and reference-rich, outing). Rounding out the schedule are shows from Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe MAN, and Hermès, among others.

Alongside our daily report on the shows, to bring Paris Fashion Week Men’s to life this season, the Wallpaper* editors on the ground will be offering a real-time look at the weekend’s happenings – from behind-the-scenes glimpses to access to the shows, presentations and parties. Stay tuned. JM

Wallpaper* Fashion Features Editor Jack Moss
Jack Moss

Jack Moss is Wallpaper’s fashion features editor, reporting for the magazine’s digital and print editions – from international runway shows to profiling the style world’s leading figures.

Jason Hughes
Jason Hughes

Jason Hughes is Wallpaper’s fashion and creative director, overseeing all style content – from fashion and beauty to watches and jewellery – as well as leading the visual direction of the magazine.

Orla Brennan
Orla Brennan

Orla Brennan is a London-based fashion and culture writer. At Wallpaper*, her ‘Uprising’ column is a monthly profile of the style world’s rising stars.

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A first look at the Saint Laurent show set

Saint Laurent show set at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

A pool filled with floating porcelain bowls set the scene for Saint Laurent’s show at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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The set for Saint Laurent’s S/S 2026 menswear show, which takes place in the Tadao Ando-designed rotunda of Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection this afternoon. Featuring an enormous circular pool filled with floating porcelain bowls – an installation titled ‘Clinamen’ by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – sets the stage for a collection which Anthony Vaccarrello says is about ‘a suspended moment, somewhere between Paris and Fire Island, where escape becomes elegance.’ Jack Moss

Saint Laurent transports from Paris to Fire Island

Saint Laurent runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

Anthony Vaccarello’s S/S 2026 collection for Saint Laurent was rooted in ideas of ‘escape’ and ‘elegance’

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‘A suspended moment, somewhere between Paris and Fire Island, where escape becomes elegance,’ is how Anthony Vaccarello describes his S/S 2026 collection for Saint Laurent, shown in Paris this afternoon.

Taking place around an installation by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – comprising a circular pool filled with floating porcelain bowls – the collection saw abbreviated shorts and pyjama sets meet wide-shoulder shirts, ties, and diaphanous layers of silk and nylon, channelling what Vaccarello described as a ‘subtle sensuality’.

In part, he said it was a ‘tribute to a lost generation, to the artists – [Larry] Stanton, [Patrick] Angus, [Darrel] Ellis – who gave a face to silent desires,’ referring to the figures lost to the Aids crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, who sought Fire Island as a refuge. Jack Moss

Pharrell Williams and Studio Mumbai’s giant game of Snakes and Ladders for Louis Vuitton S/S 2026

Louis Vuitton S/S 2026 menswear show set

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You may or may not know that Snakes and Ladders has been played since the 2nd century BC, when it originated in ancient India as the game Moksha Patam. It was devised to teach Hindu morality to children, using ladders to represent virtues and snakes to represent vices. Supersizing the humble game, multi-hyphenate Pharrell Williams’ blockbuster Louis Vuitton S/S 2026 show staged a human-scale version on a colossal 2,700 sq m game board at the Centre Pompidou yesterday evening. Closing out day one of Paris Fashion Week Men’s, the display was a ladder-ascending win for Williams’ fifth season at Vuitton.

The set was brought to life by acclaimed Indian architect Bijoy Jain, whose practice Studio Mumbai is famed for its 'cosmic' large-scale projects. Blending traditional Indian craftsmanship and contemporary design, these have ranged from sensitively built residential projects rooted in nature to spiritual displays in art institutions. Last year, an exhibition at Fondation Cartier, ‘Breath of an Architect’, delved into ‘the sensuality of architecture’ and the forces ‘that connect us to the elements’.

When it came to the Louis Vuitton set, the designer and his studio worked in their holistic method – rendering the various squares with wood, burnt pigments and weaving work in Mumbai. Assembling at vast scale in Paris, the resulting space – beheld by the fashion crowd and celebrities including Beyoncé and Jay-Z as the sun set over the city – saw five serpents weave through a clay-hued chequerboard outside of the Pompidou’s iconic piazza. ‘I am grateful and privileged to embark on this journey with Pharrell,’ said the architect of the project.

READ: How Pharrell Williams staged a giant game of Snakes and Ladders for his latest Louis Vuitton show

The best shows of Paris Fashion Week Men’s so far

The finale of Louis Vuitton runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

Louis Vuitton presented a giant Snakes and Ladders board at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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Fashion editors arrived in Paris yesterday for the first day of the city’s men’s shows. Both of the big spectacle events of the day were held at Parisian art world landmarks. Anthony Vaccarello’s romantic tribute to Fire Island – and the circle of underground queer artists who frequented the New York idyll in the 1980s – unfolded within the concrete circular rotunda of Bourse de Commerce. Later in the day, at Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams had his fun outside of the Centre Pompidou's colourful edifice, laying down a colossal game of Snakes and Ladders (a game originating in ancient India) upon which he presented a collection that took inspiration from recent travels to Mumbai. In between, cult Japanese menswear brand Auralee held a beautifully understated display at the National Archives Museum in the Marais. Exploring the subtle change in seasons from winter to spring, it marked ten years of designer’s Ryota Iwai’s quiet language of sophistication. Orla Brennan

Catch up on more of the standout shows from Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026 here.

Acne Studios channels ‘geeky confidence’ for S/S 2026

Offering a reprieve from the runway schedule, Acne Studios invited guests to see its S/S 2026 collection up close and personal at a relaxed presentation in the brand’s recently opened Paris headquarters. The collection was, aptly, a study of casual menswear codes – proposing a ‘spontaneous and unbothered’ way of dressing through a mish mash of sharp sportswear, academia-inflected knitwear, and slimline silhouettes that rang of vintage shop treasures. ‘We keep exploring and rebuilding the emblematic codes of the menswear wardrobe,’ Jonny Johansson, Acne Studios creative director, said in a statement. ‘This time, it’s with a geeky, quietly confident attitude that beats perfection by far.’ Orla Brennan

At Lemaire, a collection ‘alert and worn with confidence’

Lemaire runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

Lemaire runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran – co-artistic directors of Lemaire – have always worked through intuition rather than strict thematics, favouring the ongoing creation of a wardrobe which allows for expressions of personal style. This season was no different, seeing the pair build a collection from disparate inspiration points – from work, utility and westernwear to mid-century-inspired tailoring and more romantic gestures in silk and tulle. A cohesion was found in their distinct design language, which has always been defined by a level of restraint and good taste. A little more sensually charged than in recent seasons (a play with exposure of the body ran throughout), Lemaire and Tran said they wanted the collection to feel ‘alert and worn with confidence’, a feeling echoed in a rousing live soundtrack by musicians Valentina Magaletti and Zongamin. Jack Moss

Tatras’ East-meets-West presentation at the Palais de Tokyo

Tatras presentation at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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East met West at Tatras’ S/S 2026 presentation at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo this afternoon, a metaphorical journey which reflects the label’s roots (it was founded in Italy by a Japanese entrepreneur, and continues to mine both countries for inspiration). Playing out amid a set curated by Mehdi Dakhli, the ‘raw concrete underbelly’ of the gallery was interrupted by serene Japanese Shoji screens, while a delicate white tree – the colour chosen for its symbolic link with ‘purity and renewal’ – sat on a meditative circular pool. The collection itself sought similar juxtapositions, seeing utility wear – from boiler suits to cargo pants and hiking jackets – meet something more wistful, evoked in satin and nylon taffeta (washed to give the appearance of wear), voluminous draped jersey and moments of floral print. Meanwhile duvet quilting, a Tatras signature, appeared in lightweight new iterations, made for the warmer summer months. Jack Moss

Tatras presentation at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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‘Balenciaga by Demna’ catalogues the designer’s decade at the house

A new Paris exhibition catalogues Demna’s decade at Balenciaga, marking the Georgian designer’s swansong at the house before departing for Gucci in July.

Opening today to coincide with Paris Fashion Week Men’s at Kering’s historic headquarters on Rue de Sèvres, the ‘resumé’ exhibition spans clothing and ephemera from his tenure, which began in 2015. Memorable items include ‘pantashoes’, crisp-bag clutches and NASA-branded space jackets, as well as sculpted tailoring and dramatic haute couture creations.

Playing out on a giant cross, the exhibition begins with an initial rejection letter for an internship at Balenciaga while still a young designer, before turning full circle and ending with the all-black face-covering look he wore to accompany Kim Kardashian to the Met Gala in 2021. Throughout, Demna’s voice tells the story behind each creation.

The exhibition, ‘Balenciaga by Demna’, runs until July 9 and is open to the public by registering at Balenciaga’s website.

IM Men looks towards Japanese ceramic artist Shoji Kamoda

IM Men runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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For its sophomore Paris Fashion Week show this morning, IM Men – part of the Issey Miyake umbrella of brands – looked towards the pioneering Japanese ceramic artist Shoji Kamoda for inspiration. As such, the show opened with a trio of masked dancers, their wrapped forms – which were wheeled in before coming to life through movement – supposed to evoke Kamoda’s expressive works. ‘Bold and uninhibited’ is how the IM Men team described Kamoda’s oeuvre, though it could equally apply to the collection itself, a vivid amalgam of intriguing fabric manipulations, wrapped and twisted silhouettes, and playful accessories – like a series of surreal sunglasses with multiple lenses jutting from each side. Jack Moss

Rick Owens speaks to Wallpaper* as he opens ‘Temple of Love’ retrospective

Temple Of Love by Rick Owens

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‘Rick Owens, Temple Of Love’ at Paris’ Palais Galliera is no typical retrospective. A meditation on a singular career, it spans the iconoclastic designer’s Los Angeles beginnings on Hollywood Boulevard to the present day, featuring over 100 of his silhouettes, which often defy categorisation but are entirely his own.

‘Michèle [Lamy, Owens’ wife] kept telling me, “You gotta stop calling it a retrospective!”’ the designer told Wallpaper* ahead of the show’s opening. ‘She doesn't like the finality – I'm leaning into it! A retrospective implies a decline, it makes you think about legacy and mortality and ageing, and how long do you stay relevant, and how important is that? I don't have the answers to any of those things, but I am thinking about them and addressing them publicly.’

Previewing after his S/S 2026 runway show at Palais de Tokyo this evening (26 June) – just across the road – at the exhibition’s heart is the idea of love. ‘I felt that love is the best word to put out there,’ he says. ‘Maybe it’ll help manifest something.’

READ: Rick Owens on his bombastic Paris retrospective, ‘Temple of Love’

Julian Klausner makes sublime menswear debut for Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten runway at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2026

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A sublime S/S 2026 collection from Julian Klausner marked the designer’s menswear debut for Dries Van Noten, having shown his first womenswear collection earlier this year after the departure of the brand’s namesake. Broad brushstrokes of colour – clashing reds and pinks, vivid stripes, boldly coloured stripes, a gleaming melange of sequin embellishment – met a wardrobe of insouciant summertime ease, from an array of shorts (from cycle-style to billowing silk) to sleeveless knits, sarongs and breezy oversized shirting (some overlaid with floral or nipped-waist tabard tops). In its rich composition of elements and astute use of colour, it felt right out of the Dries Van Noten playbook, though there is certainly a sharp new vision emerging, one that is all Klausner’s own. Jack Moss

2025 by Paul Kooiker, Acne Paper Palais Royal

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Commissioned to mark the launch of Acne Studios’ new permanent gallery, photographer Paul Kooiker was given free rein by the brand to explore a subject of his choosing. He decided to return to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie – where he taught photography for 25 years – photographing the faces of 42 students in a candid, human style that marks a departure from the abstracted studies of the body he is best known for. Created in response to the uncertainty of our times, the series honours the courage of ‘people who choose to go to an art school at a time like this.’ Opened today at the new Acne Paper Palais Royal space, the exhibition runs until 27 July 2025. Orla Brennan

READ: Paul Kooiker photographs the students of Gerrit Rietveld Academie for Acne Studios

Rick Owens stages a ‘Temple of Love’ for his S/S 2026 menswear show

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Rick Owens S/S 2026 at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo

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Staged on the monolithic forecourt of Paris’ Palais de Tokyo earlier this evening, Rick Owens erected a ‘Temple of Love’ for his S/S 2026 menswear show, seeing models descend from the industrial scaffold structure and into the water below.

‘Temple of Love’ is also the name of a retrospective of the American designer’s work taking place at the Palais Galliera across the road, which opened this evening to coincide with the show. ‘Love is a word really worth promoting right now,’ he said in a letter distributed to guests.

Of the exhibition, which spans his Los Angeles beginnings to present day, he told Wallpaper* he was embracing the term ‘retrospective’. ‘A retrospective implies a decline, it makes you think about legacy and mortality and ageing, and how long do you stay relevant – how important is that? I don't have the answers to any of those things, but I am thinking about them and addressing them publicly.’

READ: Rick Owens on his bombastic Paris retrospective, ‘Temple of Love’

Catch up on the best shows of Paris Fashion Week Men’s so far

IM Men runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

IM Men S/S 2026, which was inspired by Japanese ceramicist Shoji Kamoda

(Image credit: Courtesy of Issey Miyake)

Paris Fashion Week Men’s continued yesterday with an impressive run of shows: first up, IM Men, where the Issue Miyake brand looked towards pioneering Japanese ceramicist Shoji Kamoda for inspiration (in the label’s typically lighthearted style, it began with a trio of dancers acting as Kamoda’s creations, first wheeled into the space before jumping into life). Later, there was a sublime debut menswear collection at Dries Van Noten from Julian Klausner which – in its broad strokes of colour, print and embellishment – cemented his position as a worthy heir to the brand’s namesake. Finally, there was a typically theatrical outing from Rick Owens, who erected a ‘Temple of Love’ in the forecourt of the Palais de Tokyo, in a show which coincided with the opening of a new retrospective of his work at the Palais Galliera.

Catch up on more of the standout shows from Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026 here.

Dior show swr

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A first look at the show set for Jonathan Anderson’s hotly anticipated Dior debut this afternoon. Reminiscent of the ‘velvet-lined interiors’ and parquet-lined floor of Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie museum, it features two paintings by 18th-century French painter Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, which Anderson describes as ‘modest yet beautiful’. The first depicts a bunch of flowers in a Delft vase, the other a bowl of ripe red strawberries. ‘At a time when art was often concerned with excess and spectacle, Chardin revered the everyday, trading grandeur for sincerity and empathy,’ read the collection notes. Jack Moss

Jonathan Anderson’s debut at Dior was all about the joy of dressing

Photography by Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images

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The wait is over – earlier this afternoon in Paris, Jonathan Anderson showed his S/S 2026 menswear collection for Dior, which marked his much-anticipated debut as creative director of the storied fashion house.

Playing out in a gallery-like set, two still-life paintings by 18th-century French artist Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin set the tone for a collection which explored and reworked codes of affluence and grandeur. ‘At a time when art was often concerned with excess and spectacle, Chardin revered the everyday, trading grandeur for sincerity and empathy,’ read the collection notes.

As such, looks comprised a dishevelled take on formal dress codes – from Donegal tweeds and cable-knit sweaters to British regimental neckties, schoolboy jumpers and military jackets, as well as riffs on tailcoats and the Bar Jacket.Ultimately, Anderson said it was about the joy of dressing up and making something your own: ‘a way to reinvent oneself and the moment, looking at what is old to shape new guises, allowing empathy to define elegance.’

READ: Jonathan Anderson’s Dior debut: ‘bringing joy to the art of dressing’

Kiko Kostadinov transports to imaginary island town for S/S 2026

Kiko Kostadinov runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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Opening the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week Men’s, Kiko Kostadinov’s latest collection transported to a surreal ‘island town… small and hard to place, at a remove from the outside world.’ Evoked in a Parisian carpark through a series of glowing rooms – one in which the floor was covered with sand – Kostadinov imagined a collection which unfolded through the day, from work in the morning to an evening out (on the back of the collection notes, it fastidiously catalogued ‘a day in fabrics’, with a to-the-minute time for every material in the collection). The eveningwear tailoring at the end of the show was a highlight – whether adorned with surrealist brooches or with slanted, double-breasted buttons, cut in the designer’s off-kilter style. Jack Moss

A closer look at Jonathan Anderson’s Dior debut

A closer look at Jonathan Anderson’s S/S 2026 collection for Dior Men, which marked the Irish designer’s debut at the Parisian house – from porcelain plate topped with eggs which served at the show’s invitation to book bags adorned with the title page of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as well as reworked references to the house’s archive. ‘You have to decode and recode Dior,’ said Anderson prior to the show. ‘Modernity can be found by not being scared of the past. Everything has to rebirth from itself.’ Jack Moss

Hermès’ summer in the city

Hermès runway at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2026

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‘Summer in the city,’ is how Véronique Nichanian described the mood of her S/S 2026 collection for Hermès, which – fittingly – unfolded on a sweltering afternoon at Paris’ Palais d’Iéna.A typically astute collection of lightness and ease, the collection featured airy, open-weave leather across shirts and trousers, crisp, technical canvas and lightweight shirt jackets – ‘neither quite blousons nor quite windbreakers’. Meanwhile playful totes featured monkey motifs, and open-toed sandals came with rope-trimmed soles. Jack Moss

Catch up on the best shows of the weekend

Hermès runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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Today marks the end of a packed menswear season full of fresh starts, intelligent collections and sweltering temperatures. On Friday, the fashion world – along with fans who screened the show, World Cup-style, in bars – paused to witness Jonathan Anderson’s landmark debut for Dior. But it was back to business as usual yesterday, with two very different shows standing out as the day’s highlights. Kiko Kostadinov transformed a Parisian car park into a fictional island, imagining a day unfolding in this quiet place through a wardrobe that twisted the ‘trusty sometimes unexpected things’ we put on when alone. Later in the day, Hermès’ Véronique Nichanian showcased her 37 years of expertise at the house with a seductively breezy collection that simply paid ode to ‘summer in the city’. The final act of the season is Craig Green, who is set to close out the week with a display at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts later this morning. If the London designer’s track record is anything to go by, it will likely make for a poetic and original finale to a busy S/S 2026 season. Stay tuned for more. Orla Brennan

Catch up on the standout shows of the Paris Men’s S/S 2026 season here.

Craig Green pays tribute to the psychedelic era of The Beatles

Craig Green runway at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026

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‘Wide eyes draw new light, uncovering new contours,’ read the collection notes for Craig Green’s S/S 2026 outing, which looked towards the psychedelic colours and textures of the late 1960s and 1970s – including a series of streamer-like looks made from prints derived from vintage bed sheets, while delicate illuminated glasses were constructed from the lights used in dolls houses.

The Beatles were another influence, particularly their late psychedelic oeuvre of the end of the 1960s. ‘What they achieved was almost like a miracle,’ the London-based designer said backstage, having returned to show on the Paris Fashion Week schedule after a hiatus. ‘The amount of albums they were putting out, the amount of work they were doing. It’s almost otherworldly; it’s the joy of doing things.’ Jack Moss

Wooyoungmi makes formalwear for soaring temperatures

Wooyoungmi runway at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2026

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Elegant menswear made for the hot, sticky summers of South Korea was the proposition at Wooyoungmi’s S/S 2026 collection this afternoon in Paris, which was shown at the stately Maison de la Chime just south of the Seine. Transforming the cumbersome rigour of tailcoats and suits through a clever array of lightweight fabrics – cotton poplin, silk, and superfine lycra – a series razor-sharp silhouettes were crafted to allow the body to breathe in soaring city temperatures. Mixed in with these more formal shapes, turn of the century gentleman’s bathing suits inspired skin-tight, scoop necked tops and ultra short shorts, expressed in balmy colours the designer described as capturing the ‘ecstasy of summer.’ Orla Brennan