Turn On. Tom Ford AW26

It’s a true rarity for a designer to turn on both the entire audience in the room and the thousands watching via livestream. Haider Ackermann has that high-voltage erotic sensibility which you just can’t fake. With his vision at Tom Ford, he can send people into a sensual trance, an awakening of sorts. But what he delivered yesterday at his third show for the house? It was seismic. Seismic sex.

The contemporary Tom Ford woman and man are ultimate séducteurs. One chilling glance is enough to drive you mad. And the razor-sharp lines of their elongated silhouettes work like an aphrodisiac, sending your love hormones into overdrive. Ackermann’s autumn–winter 2026 collection offers plenty of reasons to go feral – and perhaps even a little polygamous: slouchy trousers hanging low on women’s hips, held in place by a thin belt slipping out of its loops; a shrunken, see-through plastic trench paired with a babushka; dark-rinse denim, pre-faded and deeply creased; silk-scarf shirts unbuttoned down to the navel. All of it finished with kinky leather gloves.

We are witnessing a designer at the height of his powers. Enjoy the spicy, scorching ride.