Kim Bekker has always understood something fundamental about Isabel Marant: that real style isn’t dictated from above, it’s accumulated from below. For Spring 2027, the creative director leans fully into this philosophy, crafting a collection that reads less like a designer’s vision and more like a man’s life caught between continents.
“The idea was to show how there can be so many aspects to a guy’s style,” Bekker explains. “He has been everywhere and picked up pieces from here and there as he has travelled all around the globe. And they’re pieces which have lasted, and which will always be relevant.” It’s a generous framework, one that celebrates the idea of a wardrobe as autobiography, a record of movement, taste, and time.
The idea was to show how there can be so many aspects to a guy’s style,” Bekker explains. “He has been everywhere and picked up pieces from here and there as he has travelled all around the globe. And they’re pieces which have lasted, and which will always be relevant.
What emerges is layered dressing stripped of pretense. A weathered shirt-jacket in rust-toned linen sits open over chambray, its crumpled fabric speaking to actual wear rather than aesthetic intention. Pleated twill trousers in sand and soft brown sit high at the waist, cinched with tangled cord belts that suggest practicality more than decoration. There’s a graphic running shoe, the TK, that sits somewhere between sportswear and streetwear, neither fully one nor the other. Jewellery accumulates across wrists and neck, sometimes bohemian, sometimes inherited, sometimes found on a road somewhere, the kind of adornment that suggests time spent living rather than curating.
What’s most striking is how Bekker has softened the Marant house code without abandoning it. The iconic knits appear but feel earned, not obligatory, colour-blocked and folksy in equal measure. A sweater inspired by a 2018 women’s piece suggests an archive being plundered for utility rather than nostalgia. The grungy plaid shirts and striped tees read as wardrobe fundamentals, the kind of pieces that move seamlessly between sleeping and Saturday afternoon, between decades and decades.
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The colour story reflects this wandering sensibility: earthy grounding in sand and rust, punctuated by the deeper greens and blues of denim and chambray. There’s nothing here that screams season. Everything whispers permanence.
The casting, photographed by Brett Lloyd, reinforces this vision of style as a lived thing. Hervé, Bachir Mbaye, Tito Rapetti, Nuno Marques, and Jesse Rinderknecht aren’t models in the traditional sense. They’re a French designer, an Italian artist, a Portuguese artist, a Swiss model, and a singer-composer captured in their own worlds. These are intimate glimpses into real existences, not editorial constructions. “Everything in the collection feels like it was pulled from real life, so it felt right to show it on men who are just as real,” Bekker says, and it shows.
This is menswear for the accumulator, the traveller, the man who believes in pieces that last. There’s nothing here that will feel dated by autumn. There’s nothing here that requires styling notes or a mood board. It’s simply clothes that understand the difference between fashion and living, and it’s deeply, quietly, necessary.
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