In 2024, it can feel like menswear brands release new product every day, if not every hour. But menswear buyers—those highly dialed, incredibly discerning folks who decide what hangs on the racks of your favorite store—still live and die by the seasons. Every February and March, they fly to New York, London, Milan, and Paris to ogle the collections, place their orders, and then wait—some more patiently than others—to receive them in August, to be promoted in September.
Which, funnily enough, is right now. At this very moment, retailers across the globe have unusually deep stock of some of the season’s most covetable pieces, making it the best possible time to shop the fall collections. These circumstances really won’t last forever, so to help you get a highly-informed head start, we called up the buying minds behind some of our favorite retailers—NYC's Colbo, LA's Departamento, and the shopping gurus at Nordstrom, Mr Porter, and SSENSE—to learn what menswear brands they’re proudest to have in-house this season, and which specific pieces they’d urge you to try if you were kicking it with them on the floor.
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