Thom Browne celebrates the tenth birthday of Hector, his handbag hound, and proves that canine fashion rhymes perfectly with “supermarket jewel.” Ten years already since a dachshund wrapped in luxury leather started turning heads and emptying wallets proof that we’re always betrayed by our “Dogs.” Back in 2016, it was a joke, a canine wink at vanity. In 2026, it’s become a symbol of loyalty that of the customers who keep barking with delight at every new version. A capital “I” for “Iconic” luxury and when I see dogs greeting each other by sniffing each other’s rear ends, one has to wonder if the designer wasn’t an expert on the matter.
But let’s not be cynical: Hector now has his own mythology. This season, the pooch reigns proudly among interchangeable bermuda shorts because you have to keep reinventing the idea of the “new bag” when you keep selling the same thing. And since Thom Browne never does things halfway, the faithful companion even shows up embroidered into tweed intarsia and Mogador silk. You can almost picture the dog yawning in boredom amid so much seriousness.
The collection revisits American preppy style it’s trendy again that same mix of model student and neurotic banker, updated with a touch of nostalgia. Browne adds corsets (because why not?), and it takes a certain boldness to turn summer memories into structured grey corsetry. But after all, when you’ve made a dachshund into an icon, nothing’s impossible anymore.
The menswear pieces are not left behind: down jackets, ripstop, Japanese denim… and a varsity jacket reading “World of Thom Browne” for those without a diploma from the Fashion institution nothing less!
All in all, this collection is both an absurd and admirable celebration of what fashion does best: take something utterly useless, make it sublime, and convince us we can’t live without it. But me, I’m baring my teeth handbags rarely have such stamina, and at this rate, even Jacques mumusk might feel compelled to turn his chicken into an icon. Here, the couturier appears by turns counting for nothing and content with nothing.
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