Paris Men’s Fashion Week SS20

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Paris had Fashion Week Men’s spring/summer 2020

between18 – 24 June 2019

Over the last three weeks, the world’s leading menswear designers showcases their Spring-Summer 2020 creations through a Europe-wide schedule of shows and presentations. And in addition to the usual mixture of streetwear and classic tailoring, their collections were rich with innovation, from inflatable clothing to recycled textiles.

You could never miss the men’s spring/summer 2020 shows, which just wrapped up in Paris, and which mark the arrival of a new fashion decade.

This season felt upbeat, even if some of the things on the runway we’ve come to expect for spring, such as florals, pink which includes Arsenal’s Héctor Bellerín in a Vuitton bubblegum-fuschia hoodie, white, kaftans and a soupçon of sheer.

LI-NING has presented its Spring/Summer 2020 collection at Paris Fashion Week Men’s alongside the debut of a sneaker collaboration with Stefano Pilatiand his Random Identities label.

Hermès presents its Véronique Nichanian-designed Spring/Summer 2020collection on the runways at Paris Fashion Week Men’s, delivering a standout selection of relaxed tailored looks.

During Pitti Uomo in Florence, Clare Waight Keller, perhaps best known for designing the wedding dress worn by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, debuted her first full menswear collection for Givenchy at the lush Villa Palmieri.

This season, Waight Keller was inspired by 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire’s floral book covers, traditional French tapestry-making and, in an unexpected twist, contemporary Seoul street style. Models kept their louche tailoring and streetwear-inspired pieces’ casual with sneakers.

British designer Craig Green drew from similarly diverse sources of inspiration this season, including Mexican “papel picado” (perforated paper flags) and Egyptian burial rituals, at London Fashion Week Men’s.

At the same event, Bethany Williams, who won the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, showed a sustainable collection made exclusively from recycled and organic textiles.

In Paris, Kenzo designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon staged their final show with the French luxury fashion house, after eight years at the helm. Models walked to a musical score by Solange, and the collection — with neoprene suits and mermaid-esque touches — was inspired by Japanese ama, or female free divers.