Dunhill Men’s Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review

A memorable New Yorker cartoon from the Barneys New York heydays depicted a saleswoman holding a sweater aloft and telling a nonplussed customer that it came in cement gray, charcoal gray, light gray — or gray.

For Dunhill’s fall collection, creative director Simon Holloway explored every gray under the rarely seen London sun — and other subdued shades — to handsome effect.

The collection was installed on Stockmans in the well-lit salons of Dunhill’s grand Milan headquarters — making it easier to discern the multitude of textural grays, along with verdigris, midnight blues, midnight browns and the odd pop of burgundy or Windsor blue.

It proved that a man doesn’t need much color, or just the suggestion of it, to make a fashion statement. To be sure, it takes a rare talent like Holloway to mix sharkskin, birds-eye and nailhead suiting fabrics with Prince of Wales checks and houndstooth motifs.

But the takeaway was that texture rules, including in trousers, with a choice of corduroy, flannel, fluid cavalry twill, suede or leather. And so do blazers, which Holloway exalted as a versatile piece to mix and match for day.

A blazer, he said, always “looks very chic and polished. But you know, it’s very adaptable. Somebody recently said it was the Swiss Army knife of the tailored wardrobe.”

Holloway often references stylish historical figures in his collections, here taking cues from late British photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, aka Lord Snowdon following his marriage to Princess Margaret in 1960, cueing up a zesty decade for British menswear.

The designer drew some direct lines to Dunhill’s archive, reprising its signature car coat in various lengths and textures — and to Armstrong-Jones, pictured on Holloway’s mood board wearing a suede field jacket to ride his motorcycle.

Holloway made a version of it, and it comes in gray.