At the recent Milan Men’s Fashion Week, dainty little details were everywhere, reminding us that styling is how you really have fun with fashion. The riot of small-scale design flourishes seen across the Spring-Summer 2027 shows means you can expect men to be more decorated than usual next summer.

Designers’ Inspiration

Irish designer Simone Rocha set the mood at her first ever menswear show at Pitti Uomo, the biannual Italian trade show for men’s clothing in Florence, with a collection that went big on all the extras. Models wore fittingly theatrical hand-embroidered glass bugle-bead cornflowers, tea-stained feather boas, large silk-organza corsages, and chunky engraved metal sleeve garters.

Meanwhile, at Dunhill, creative director Simon Holloway looked to the signature style of the late artist Lucian Freud, specifically how he would tie scarves close to his neck. The British brand’s suiting channeled dapper English luxury with dedicated cigar pockets on outerwear, along with mismatched velvet slippers adorned with playing card emblems.

For fellow British designer Paul Smith, whose brand is known for its colorful embellishments, the inclusion of sea-glass pins, along with sailing boat, seashell, and penny pewter charms, were a clear nod to nostalgia.

Details Matter

Styling flourishes like a corsage, lapel pin, or a piece of treasured jewelry turn an off-the-peg suit or jacket into something special. The stylist Ben Schofield, who worked on Paul Smith’s show, said that authenticity is key to getting a trend like this right in real life.

At Paul Smith, where we put the pins — and how we tucked the ties in the pockets — was all about the feeling of clothes being lived-in and how they would be worn by the ‘Paul Smith man,’ who is a collector and is always picking things up. It’s an approach that can stop sartorial accoutrements looking out of place or gimmicky when worn at home.

Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.