SAINT LAURENT - MEN'S SUMMER 26 SHOW

Men's Summer 26 by Anthony Vaccarello For the Summer 2026 menswear show, Anthony Vaccarello evokes a suspended moment, somewhere between Paris and Fire Island, where escape became elegance, and desire became a language. This collection pays tribute to a lost generation, to the artists — Stanton, Angus, Ellis — who gave a face to silent desires. And to Yves Saint Laurent, of course, who in 1974 sought refuge, only to create anew. Inspired by a time when desire was style, when beauty served as a shield against emptiness, the collection explores this subtle sensuality, that fragile moment when one dresses as much to reveal oneself as to hide. Ambiguity becomes elegance. For this collection, Anthony Vaccarello chooses not the night, but the clarity of the afternoon light. A deliberate rupture. No artificial glow. Just dry light. Full presence. A geometry of exposure. Not to display — but to hold. The collection unfolds around clinamen, an installation by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: a circular basin where porcelain bowls drift and collide, drawing invisible lines across water, producing resonance without choreography. Silhouettes are sculpted, not exaggerated. Cinched waists. Extended shoulders. Materials that trace without clinging: silk, nylon. The palette is hushed — sand, salt, pale ochre, dry moss, pool blue. Nothing is declarative. Everything is held. A sensuality without theatre. Shorts evoke those once worn by a young Yves, but there’s no reference here. Only recu