Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 50 - Spring Men 2025 i L'OFFICIEL USA

Willy Chavarria’s Adidas collaboration, unveiled on his Spring/Summer 2025 runway, offers an “American take on Adidas,” says the California-born, New York–based designer. “Adidas has played into so many different cultural identities globally that I have a real affinity for, from the Mods to techno music and rave culture, and I wanted to showcase the way it’s worn in Chicano culture.” His starting point for the robust 36-piece collection was his first association with the German athletic brand: borrowing his farmworker father’s vintage suede Adidas kicks as a teenager. “I wore them with tapered corduroy pants, a white T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and my hair slicked back like a ‘60s guy,” Chavarria recalls. “I thought it was the coolest look ever.” The capsule collection features a number of Chavarria’s…

Poggy Style: Dressing for Work and Play (Rizzoli) is the modern man’s guide to getting dressed from Motofumi “Poggy” Kogi, the Japanese street-style star known for his refreshing perspective on mixing streetwear and tailoring. The scrapbook-like volume breaks down casual-cool looks like a basketball jersey paired with a cozy vintage coat or a tweed jacket styled with jeans, a puffer, and wide-brimmed hat. The tome also features a conversation with Undercover designer Jun Takahashi, who traces fashion’s embrace of streetwear to the underground Ura-Harajuku scene of 1990s Tokyo.…

Hublot’s tagline is “The Art of Fusion,” and with good reason: since first pairing a rubber strap and gold watch case in 1980, the disruptive Swiss watchmaker has joined disparate materials to spectacular effect. Available in a limited edition of 18 pieces, the new Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic Green SAXEM model is no exception. Featuring a green or black rubber strap and a transparent green case revealing a self-winding tourbillon movement that seems to glow from within, it’s made using a material originally developed for industrial application in satellites and lasers. SAXEM—short for Sapphire Aluminum oxide and rare Earth Mineral—is an alloy of the chemical compound aluminum oxide and the elements thulium, holmium, and chromium. Aluminum oxide is also the building block of the precious gemstone sapphire. While the molecular…

Milan’s Brera district has long been a maze of contradictions: austere churches stand beside avant-garde galleries, while centuries-old botanical gardens share walls with cutting-edge design studios. Now this storied neighborhood welcomes its latest addition: Casa Brera, a luxury hotel that embodies this spirit of juxtaposition. Housed in a 1950s Pietro Lingeri–designed Rationalist building in Piazzetta Bossi, steps away from the Teatro alla Scala, Casa Brera draws inspiration from its surrounding neighborhood—a haven for artists and creatives. Interior designer Patricia Urquiola has transformed the space into what feels like a living gallery, in which geometric patterns dance across marble floors and modernist furniture creates unexpected dialogues with classical architecture. The result is neither purely historical nor starkly contemporary, but rather a thoughtful conversation between past and present. Casa Brera’s 116 rooms…

Simon Holloway, who took the helm as creative director of the storied British luxury house Dunhill in April 2023, brings a wealth of experience from his impressive tenure at prestigious brands, including James Purdey & Sons, Agnona, Ralph Lauren, and Narciso Rodriguez. This appointment marked a new chapter for Dunhill, a house founded in 1893 when Alfred Dunhill inherited his father’s saddlery business and transformed it into a brand that became synonymous with British elegance and automotive culture. Now part of the Richemont luxury group, Dunhill has evolved from its origins in motoring accessories to become a full-fledged luxury menswear brand. Holloway embodies the brand’s dual nature—equally at ease with rock stars and royalty as he is in a quiet country pub. He approaches elegance as a fundamental value while…

The most enduring fashion lives on the cutting edge. And what’s more forward-thinking than space travel, techno dystopias, and explorations of the distant future? Science fiction has given cinema many of the most iconic costumes in the medium’s history, and these garments have a distinct connection to high fashion, with the approaches to wardrobe influencing each other in equal measure. Sci-fi is, of course, a vast designation, but the films (and TV projects) over the last forty years with the strongest connection to high fashion fall into a few subgenres: maximalist space stories (The Fifth Element, Avatar), fantasy adjacent (Marvel’s Agatha All Along), cyberpunk (the Matrix franchise), the uncanny near-future (The Lobster, Her), and the post-apocalyptic and dystopian (the Blade Runner films, The Creator). The last subgenre includes what is…

When a designer has an idea for a runway show in mind that veers away from the traditional, they often enlist the aid of a show producer. These specialists assist fashion designers in making their dream sets come to life, often in challenging locations. Even among the revered short list of go-to show producers, Etienne Russo stands out. Russo’s path to becoming fashion’s premier show producer began with training at a prestigious Belgian hospitality school before connecting with the influential Antwerp Six in the 1980s. A pivotal moment came when he modeled in an early show for his friend Dries Van Noten, sparking his interest in production design, and leading him to begin collaborating with the Belgian designer on his show sets. “He was the first to trust me, 33…

When Ron Dorff debuted in 2011 from a modest Marais boutique, it addressed the conspicuous absence of refined athleticwear in the luxury market. At a time when logomania dominated sportswear, the brand launched with meticulously crafted essentials that prioritized quality materials and precise cuts over ostentatious branding (revolutionary!). Now, with an expanding presence in over 120 countries and flagships dotting the global fashion landscape from SoHo to Saint-Germaindes-Prés, Ron Dorff has established itself as the go-to purveyor for discerning shoppers who demand their athleticwear perform double duty. The brand’s trajectory mirrors the shifting paradigm in luxury menswear. As founder Claus Lindorff noted to L’OFFICIEL in 2022, their clientele increasingly integrated Ron Dorff pieces into their daily wardrobes, wearing them from morning meetings to weekend getaways. This organic evolution from pure…

One of the oldest French maisons (founded in 1854), Louis Vuitton is a relatively new entrant to the watch category, having only launched its Geneva-based La Fabrique du Temps division in 2002. A reverence for tradition combined with out-of-the-box thinking has enabled the house to quickly become one of the premiere names in fine watchmaking. This spring, the Tambour Convergence reimagines Louis Vuitton’s distinctive drum-shaped Tambour watch in the style of a 1920s montre à guichet (French for “window watch”), an early precursor to the digital watch that reveals the time through small apertures in a precious plate. The new style offers two distinct versions: a rose gold model that’s perfect for daytime wear, and a platinum edition featuring a precious plate adorned with 795 diamonds placed by hand in a…

The April issue celebrates the marriage of wisdom and wit across culture and style. Dunhill’s evolution from motoring accessories to luxury menswear flourishes under Simon Holloway, a creative director as comfortable with royalty as he is in a countryside pub (page 60). We see it in the visionary work of Etienne Russo, whose brilliant runway productions have shaped fashion history—and who opens his personal archive exclusively to L’OFFICIEL (page 112). Every project choice demands a delicate balance of instinct and insight. Our April cover star Jon Hamm acutely understands this duality, having masterfully navigated both comedy and drama, wisely building a career that challenges and delights in equal measure. The actor now leads Apple Original’s Your Friends & Neighbors in a role that checks all his boxes: moving beyond Don…

Fashion brands are turning their attention to golf apparel. Kim Jones’s Dior Men lifestyle capsule, inspired by the world of golf, remixes The Official Preppy Handbook staples such as polo shirts and V-neck sweaters with cargo Bermuda shorts and track pants. The Off-White c/o Paris Hilinski “All In One” golf collection features custom arrow graphics that the label’s late founder Virgil Abloh sent to the pro golfer to heat transfer onto her polos and jackets on tour. Meanwhile, Travis Scott and Ghostface Killah–approved LA lifestyle brand Malbon Golf offers windbreakers and quarter-zips with swag to wear on and off the course.…

In the heart of Italy’s Marche region, where rolling hills meet dramatic coastlines, a story of artisanal excellence has been unfolding for half a century. Santoni, the luxury accessories house founded in 1975 by Andrea Santoni, stands as a testament to the enduring power of Italian craftsmanship, where every stitch, silhouette, and hue tells a story. From its humble beginnings in Corridonia, Santoni has since transformed into a global luxury powerhouse while maintaining the precision and care of an artisanal workshop. At the heart of its success are the more than 700 skilled artisans who bring each creation to life through techniques passed down through generations. Perhaps nowhere is this artistry more evident than in Santoni’s signature velatura, the proprietary coloring technique that echoes the methods of Renaissance masters and…

In the scene that opens Your Friends & Neighbors, a new Apple Original series starring Jon Hamm, a young woman slides up next to Hamm’s character, hedge fund manager Andrew “Coop” Cooper. After a few moments’ repartee, the woman assesses him: “You have this strange mix of confidence and low self-esteem.” Coop, it emerges, is recently single, his wife (Amanda Peet) having left him for a professional athlete. He is in what he thinks is the nadir of his adulthood, though soon he’ll bore much deeper down into rock bottom. He and the woman, a colleague, sleep together, and the encounter—which, both parties later attest, was consensual and considerate of her and his positions within their company—fires Coop into a vortex of unfortunate events. Though Your Friends & Neighbors is…