Earlier this year, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation contacted Raf Simons. They asked if he’d like to work with them on something. He said yes. That’s the shorthand version of the story behind the collection he presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo, perfectly chimed with a duo of Mapplethorpe exhibitions at LACMA and the Getty Museum, and the HBO documentary subtitled Look at the Pictures.
Dolce&Gabbana’s Fall/Winter 2026 men’s collection, “The Portrait of Man,” transforms the Milan runway into a gallery of individuality, celebrating masculinity as personal, emotional, and unapologetically refined.