dunhill Spring/Summer 2026 / SS26 at Milan Men’s Fashion Week
The dunhill Spring/Summer 2026 season from Creative Director Simon Holloway draws from a distinctly British duality, the rarefied dress codes of English aristocracy and their influence on the louche, cultivated rebellion of British rock icons. Taking cues from the sartorial expression of the Windsor men – figures that continue to be a central inspiration to the evolving dunhill wardrobe – this formal code is interjected with the effortless attitude of Bryan Ferry and Charlie Watts, the most classically dressed British rock stars, resulting in a collection that transcends the referential. These culturally iconic men inherited societal elegance but wear it with disobedient grace.
For SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 dunhill embodies this tension: the formal undone, the classic made rakish. In perpetuity, craftsmanship remains central to the practice of design in this storied House. The collection is grounded in a dunhillian legacy of handwork and provenance, with a deep reverence for artisanal fabric mills, traditional craft and only the most excellent materials.
dunhill SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 collection moves through the season in chapters: Car coats, driving blazers and motoring trench coats – drawn from the House’s Motorities legacy – are sculpted in butter soft French lambskin, supple suedes, coated Linen or cotton-silk twill in various shades of British drab. Tailored silhouettes are at once structured and fluid, embracing a quiet, neutral palette of stone, greige, drab and House navy, in seersuckers, high-twist wools and innovatively spun linen in plains and subtle stripes and over-scaled checks.
As colour builds, the mood shifts to the world of sporting elegance. Bold striped ties are an interplay with vibrant Madras jackets while arresting summer blazers evoke the graphic splendour of the summer social season – from the Alfred Dunhill Padel Classic to Wimbledon and the Chelsea Flower Show. This is English elegance in its most expressive register. Sun bleached tailored Linens fade into neo-Gatsby hues: washed lavender mismatched with muted madder rose, flanked by the finest of indigo chambrays, suedes, linen silk and striped handkerchief linen. Softly, yet precisely draped with more than a nod to pleasure over protocol.
A bucolic expression celebrates the considered eccentricity of English summer event dressing. Linen blazers, in a whisper of pale toned linens, are paired with eccentric regency stripes and 18th century-inspired floral printed waistcoats all dressed down with tonal Japanese denim, Panama hats and slippers. Classic Lounge suits in shades of royal to navy, purple and black are styled with high-contrast haberdashery: candy stripe shirts, with sherbet-toned pocket squares and waistcoats. The palette may be playful, but the silhouette remains resolute – sharp, tailored, assured. These looks channel the eccentric edges of the British sporting life, tempered by the restraint of the very best English tailoring. A series of smoking jackets cut in outsized emblematic menswear patterns are loomed in supple silk-wool blends transforming classic textile codes into an art deco dream.
The Century collection – a dunhill icon inspired by the House Motorities trunks – is crafted from leather-trimmed canvas, including a soft everyday bag and holdall, and more structured bridle leather document and attaché cases. Together they narrate the House mastery in leather goods and metal hardware, refined over more than 130 years. Handcrafted in Northampton – from the spiritual home of English shoemaking – arrives a refined buckled loafer, polished to perfection. Reflecting this aesthetic, the Davies driving sneaker, is hand-burnished in soft, supple calf, echoing our enduring relationship with car culture.
From the gentleman to the sportsman, the executive to the hedonist – the dunhill SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 collection speaks to the full gamut of modern masculinity. This is a wardrobe for a life well lived: one that is innately defined by elegance and ease. English in style, British in spirit, rebellious in soul.
All images dunhill SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 by the brand. PR in house. Credits: Creative Director — Simon Holloway, Styling —Tom Guinness, Casting — Adam Hindle, Hair — Pawel Solis, Make-up — Miranda Joyce, Music — Aheym (Homeward) by Bryce Dessner performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Musicians — Emil Chakalov – 1st Violin, Sophia Durrant – 2nd Violin, Matthew Johnstone — Viola, Sebastian van Kuijk – Cello, Design & Production — Studio Boum.