The archive, worn again: seamless Uniqlo knits, Wales Bonner for adidas, a Jordan 14 back after twenty one years, and the Peter Millar vest made for an anniversary.
This week the strongest new pieces were old ideas, properly remade: a collaboration that reopened its own archive, knitwear built in a single piece, and a Jordan silhouette back for the first time in twenty one years.
High Street
Uniqlo, UNIQLO F.RISSO 3D Knit Turtleneck Sweater ($59.90). Launched October 29 in the US and October 30 globally, and the payoff to the one to watch in last week’s report. Francesco Risso’s second Uniqlo capsule, Made for Dreaming, takes vintage knitwear and rebuilds it with seamless 3D knit technology in an ultra fine merino blend: no side seams, a clean silhouette, and colour used with intent. Of the five men’s knits in the capsule, the turtleneck in a solid colour is the one that will still look right in five winters. The 3D Knit Polo Sweater ($49.90) is the runner up from the same launch. Our pick at Uniqlo.H&M, Elie Saab Cotton Tuxedo Shirt ($99). The Elie Saab collection launched globally on October 22, and this week it became buyable in the United States, arriving October 29 online and in select stores. Saab has never designed for men before, and wisely he started with the classics: a cotton tuxedo shirt, wool tuxedo trousers ($169), and the small details, a cufflink and pin set, that make evening dressing look finished rather than rented. With the holiday season opening, this is the shirt to own before the invitations arrive. Our pick at H&M.adidas, Wales Bonner Gazelle Croc Embossed Sneaker ($220). Released October 29 as part of the adidas Originals by Wales Bonner Fall Winter 2026 collection, a drop built by revisiting the partnership’s own archive. The Gazelle underneath is the 1968 original, a permanent silhouette, and Wales Bonner’s treatment is material rather than noise: green crocodile stamped leather, cream stripes, a gum sole. It dresses up the way the shoes that carry a wardrobe do, with tailoring as happily as with denim. The same drop’s leather blouson in bark brown is its apparel centrepiece, and the Karintha in dark brown crocodile stamped leather ($220) is the dressier shoe of the two. Our pick at Nordstrom.Zara, 100% Wool Regular Fit Coat ($419). New in at Zara this week, and the specification is the story: one hundred percent wool, where most high street coats at any price are blends. A regular fit, a clean tailored line, and nothing on it that belongs to a single season. If the coat is the outfit in late October, and it is, this is the high street version to buy once and wear until it is part of your signature. Our pick at Zara.Mango Man, Selection Handmade Wool and Cashmere Coat ($950). The latest edition of Mango Man Selection, the brand’s premium line, puts cashmere at the centre of the season and chocolate brown forward as the new neutral. Its handmade coats are the headline: a straight cut, a shirt collar, patch pockets, and thirty percent cashmere in the charcoal version. This is Mango working the way a much more expensive house works, fewer pieces, better cloth, no logos, and it rewards the same discipline we ask of any cashmere purchase: check the blend, then buy the best version you can. Our pick at Mango.Nike, Air Jordan 14 Forest Green ($215). Released today, October 31, as a general release. The Jordan 14 was the last silhouette Michael Jordan wore in a Finals, designed with a Ferrari as its reference, and this colourway, white perforated leather over a Gorge Green midsole, returns for the first time since 2005. Twenty one years is a long time between appearances, and the shoe has aged the way good design does: it looks less like a retro and more like a classic that was simply away. Our pick at Nike.
Banana Republic, honestly, had no new launch this week: after the Zankov capsule on October 20, its story is the seasonal holiday party edit, velvet tailoring and a suede shirt jacket, which we will judge as a collection when the season turns, not as a drop.
Premium Edit
The bridge tier offered no dated launch this week, so we will not invent one. What it offered was Peter Millar’s new season outerwear, and two pieces in particular that solve November in different ways.
Peter Millar, Pursuit Quilted Jacket ($298). New for the season from Peter Millar’s Pursuit series: a modified hybrid blazer with a standup collar, light insulation, and a wind and water resistant finish, in a tailored fit. It occupies the most useful square in a winter wardrobe, more polished than a puffer, less formal than an overcoat, and right for the days that are neither one thing nor the other. Recommended at Peter Millar.Peter Millar, 25th Anniversary Cashmere Essex Vest ($1,498). The Essex is Peter Millar’s bestselling quilted vest, and for the house’s twenty fifth anniversary it has been remade in pure cashmere over a technical membrane that keeps out wind and water. Limited edition, and priced like it, but the logic is sound: take the layer a man wears two hundred days a year and make it out of the best cloth available. Recommended at Peter Millar.
High Fashion
Saint Laurent remains a house in transition, and the numbers say it is holding its ground while it waits: Kering’s third quarter results, reported October 22, showed Saint Laurent sustaining growth in North America and Western Europe. No successor to Anthony Vaccarello was announced this week; the widely reported frontrunner remains unconfirmed, and Vaccarello himself receives the CFDA International Designer of the Year award on November 2. Until the new name lands, the buying logic from last week holds: the current collection is the one to buy from.
Saint Laurent, Men’s Grained Leather Blouson Jacket ($7,200). New in at Neiman Marcus, and a different garment from last week’s smooth leather blouson: grained leather, in black, with the texture doing the work that branding never should. A blouson is the defining menswear shape of the Vaccarello decade, and the grained version is the one that will wear its years best. Recommended at Neiman Marcus.Brunello Cucinelli, Men’s Wool Blend Single Breasted Chevron Jacket ($5,500). New in at Neiman Marcus from the house’s new season. Cucinelli tailoring works because it refuses to shout: a single breasted jacket in a wool blend with a chevron weave that reads as texture up close and as plain good cloth from across the room. Worn open over knitwear, it is the Solomeo idea of luxury in its most usable form. Recommended at Neiman Marcus.Loro Piana, Men’s Traveller Water Resistant Cashmere Field Jacket ($6,020). New in at Bergdorf Goodman. Loro Piana’s Fall Winter 2026 to 2027 season, Nomadic Reverie, is built by reimagining the house’s own icons, and the Traveller is first among them: a field jacket in water resistant cashmere, alpine function with no visible effort. It is this week’s theme stated by its most expensive voice: the archive, worn again, because it never stopped working. Recommended at Bergdorf Goodman.Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Cashmere and Wool Peak Lapel Double Breasted Blazer ($6,995). New in at Bergdorf Goodman, handcrafted in Italy: wide peak lapels, crest engraved buttons, unfinished cuffs waiting for a tailor. Purple Label is American tailoring at its most considered, and a double breasted blazer in cashmere and wool is its purest expression, a jacket that anchors a wardrobe for a decade and asks nothing trendy of the man wearing it. Recommended at Bergdorf Goodman.
The One Buy
Uniqlo, UNIQLO F.RISSO 3D Knit Turtleneck Sweater ($59.90). The single strongest buy of the week is also its least expensive tailored decision: a seamless merino blend turtleneck, knit in one piece, designed by a Marni alumnus, launched two days ago, at a price that makes the quality argument unanswerable. Everything else in this report costs more. Nothing in it will be worn more. Runner up: the Wales Bonner Gazelle Snake, for the man whose sneaker rotation needs one pair with genuine craft in it. Our pick at Uniqlo.
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