Over the past few years, av vattev’s design language has become synonymous with musical icons of the 1970s, with snapshots of Mick Jagger or archival portraits of Lou Reed at the centre of the designer’s moodboard. For SS26, Antonio Vattev is shifting his focus to cinema, diving into the French New Wave world of Jean-Luc Godard. The French auteur’s 1960 film À bout de souffle (Breathless) was central to Vattev’s evolving vision of the av man, transforming the timeless savoir-faire of Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character into a series of looks fit for the today.

Design archetypes of the 1970s recur in the form of skinny scarves, mandarin collars and patchwork shirts, reimagined through a contemporary lens. Tailoring arrives in soft satin, structured in streamlined cuts of pinstripe suit trousers and cropped blazers, while knit polos are crafted with versatile collars to be worn open or turned up, fastened at the neck to build a wrap-around silhouette. Outerwear features tassled leather bombers, sequin capes and motorcycle jackets with buckled collars, worn alongside new iterations of the designer’s sell-out Viper cardigan (worn by the likes of Paul Mescal and Dua Lipa, to name a few), arriving in semi-sheer or cropped versions.