International menswear designers, patrons, journalists, and aficionados are gearing as much as collect at Florence’s Fortezza da Basso for the 108th version of Pitti Uomo, an enormous biannual males’s vogue truthful for worldwide manufacturers to stage their latest concepts, development forecasts, and collaborative tasks.
From June 17 to twenty, the occasion will showcase the Spring/Summer time 2026 collections of over 730 manufacturers in a winding exhibition-like commerce present, and it’ll host a collection of runway shows from a number of designers. These will embody the visitor of honor Homme Plissé Issey Miyake, visitor designers PAF (Publish Archive Faction) and Niccolò Pasqualetti, and now, Kids of the Discordance.
In collaboration with the Japan Trend Week Group, Pitti Uomo has introduced on the Hideaki Shikama-led model to host a “Particular Occasion” throughout the commerce truthful, which is able to embody a runway present, on June 17.
“I’ve been a part of the Pitti group since I gained the Tokyo Trend Award about eight years in the past and I’m very grateful to have the ability to come again and current my assortment for the primary time in 5 years, as that is the occasion that led to a rise within the variety of my enterprise companions,” mentioned Shikama.
“My garments are impressed by all of the tradition I skilled rising up within the Japanese port metropolis of Yokohama, and I attempt to incorporate the essence of the tradition into each bit,” he added. “The garments that I make are dedicated to being distinctive, and I’ll proceed to discover this each day.”
Francesca Tacconi, particular occasions coordinator at Pitti Immagine, added, “Kids of the Discordance is among the manufacturers we’ve been following most carefully for a number of seasons ever since its debut at Pitti Uomo a couple of years in the past, launched by means of the Tokyo Trend Award. We respect the impartial considering of its founder, Hideaki Shikama, and the calm confidence with which he blends archival references and the quick tempo of avenue tradition, all with a forward-looking design imaginative and prescient.”
Keep tuned for Kids of the Discordance’s shwo at Pitti Uomo 108 on June 17.
