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From Demna’s Gucci to Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Fendi and Andrea Pompilio’s Onitsuka Tiger, Milan’s SS27 season offered three very different answers to the same problem: how do you move a fashion house forward without sanding off what made us care about it in the first place?

Somewhere between midnight and morning, before the city stirs and the light gives anything away, a new season takes shape. With stillness in the dark before anything is revealed, we step into that unclaimed hour for September — shot after-hours, in the quiet handover between one season and the next.

The feed moves fast, but some patterns stop the scrolling. These instantaneously recognisable monogram bags prove that fashion’s most familiar signatures still know how to stay in the picture.

Homecoming is an essential part of any coming-of-age story. Ten years after leaving Singapore for international stardom, MAKI is returning to the city where MAKI of &TEAM first took shape. The artist reflects on the memories that shaped him, the music that found him, and the people who have made every stage feel like home.

A border divides, but identity connects. Across two creative realms, one shared lineage seamlessly bridges past and present in this annual Men’s Folio editorial special.

Who needs a Golden Boot when you have a Birkin?

As summer approaches, we strip things back: less fabric, more friction. Think exposed skin, close-cut silhouettes, and the kind of dressing that leaves little between the body and the heat. After all, is showing a little skin not what summer is all about?

Somewhere between optimisation and performance, masculinity lost its erotic charge.