Abstract
- Domenico Formichetti staged PDF’s Spring/Summer season 2026 assortment dubbed “FREE-DOM” at Milan Trend Week
- “Generally my thoughts seems like a cage,” mentioned the younger designer, the sentiment that fueled this season’s menswear lineup
Domenico Formichetti by no means goes half-in on an concept. It’s Formichetti’s fervency that fuels the PDF‘s conversation-catalyzing menswear designs, the immersive artistic ideas, disruptive silhouettes, and sportswear-swerving model codes. Nevertheless, as Formichetti shared in his current interview for Hypebeast Journal 34: The Uniform Concern, generally he seems like he’s trapped within the confines of his ideas.
The younger designer expanded upon this sentiment in his Spring/Summer season 2026 Milan showcase, aptly entitled “FREE-DOM.” Formichetti invited a flock of A-list friends and stylephiles alike to a stark jail yard, through which fashions paced up and down the cage, mirroring the designer’s personal “trapped ideas, doubts and wishes.”
“Generally my thoughts seems like a cage. The one method out is to create,” contextualized Formichetti in a post-show supply. “There’s at all times friction. Between what individuals count on of me and what I truly need to say.”
With that precept laying the groundwork for the gathering, the brand new PDF indicators a shift in commenting on the cultural zeitgeist to, somewhat, steering the dialog inward. Spring/Summer season 2026 is about PDF and breaking down all of these boundaries that forestall it from working at its full potential. Vibrant colours engulfed sharper, extra poignant silhouettes, complemented by tonal textures, and a extra refined method to footwear.
Although a core side of Formichetti’s artistic endeavors is group, one thing nonetheless strongly carried out into the present. Embodying the gathering’s mantra – “launch as a communal act” – the model’s group of cultural disruptors, resembling Rafael Leão, Stefon Diggs, Alvin Kamara, Tony Effe, and Julez Smith, all walked the runway.
“That is the start of one thing. As a result of when you get away, you don’t return.”
Take a better have a look at PDF’s Spring/Summer season 2026 runway assortment within the gallery above, and keep tuned to Hypebeast for extra Milan Trend Week protection.
