Ssstein’s soft-spoken approach to menswear—lived-in fabrics, masterful distressing, slouchy-but-never-schlubby silhouettes—makes even the most pedestrian wardrobe essentials feel anything but.
The master tailors at Saman Amel opened their Stockholm atelier in 2015, but their remit now encompasses Savile Row-caliber custom suiting, plus the type of off-the-rack threads your grandkids will be thrilled to inherit.
Small Talk might’ve started as line of whimsical one-off pieces, but the label now encompasses a full assortment of reliably approachable silhouettes, enlivened by hard-to-find Japanese fabrics and delightfully off-kilter patterns.
In 2020, Kartik Kumra founded his label out of a Philadelphia dorm room. These days, though, the ascendant industry darling relies on a deep network of New Delhi craftspeople to bring his homespun, DIY-inflected vision to life.
Detroit-born wunderkind Carter Young Altman imbues the corn-fed aesthetics of the heartland with a rakish cosmopolitan swagger, yielding menswear for a new generation of globe-trotting style gods.
The Japanese repro wizards at A.Presse specialize in the type of patinated mil-spec classics you can never find at your local vintage joint, painstakingly upgraded with deeply sumptuous fabrics.
Designer Spencer Phipps reimagines rugged, hard-wearing Americana with an irreverent wink, but you don’t need to be in on the joke to appreciate his made-in-LA fleece jackets or cult-favorite thermal tees.