Need to Look Elegant This Winter? Spend money on a Cummerbund

Parading down the runway on prime of tulip-shaped fluid trousers at Kallmeyer’s latest New York Fashion Week presentation or sauntering by way of the streets of Paris over languid shirts, welcome to the invasion of the waist-snatchers. Indeed, cummerbunds, an virtually alien idea for these unfamiliar with black-tie dressing or conventional formal menswear apparel, are cropping up in every single place.

At Alessandro Michele’s autumn/winter 2026 assortment for Valentino, they have been rendered in candy-coloured ruched satin and adorned with ornate collarless jackets. For Conner Ives’s spring/summer time 2027 present, the Bedford-born, London-based designer continued his obsession with upper-crust socialites by dressing fashions within the cummerbunds their husbands would’ve taken them to dinner in. Elsewhere in Manhattan, at Heirlome’s debut on-schedule present, they have been rendered in light-weight silk and made fairly the compelling case for including a swash of material round your waist.