Saul Nash had a clear vision for his Spring/Summer 2027 collection, and he found the perfect room to bring it to life. The London-based designer brought his STANCE collection to Milan Fashion Week, presenting inside SGM Forza e Coraggio, one of Milan’s oldest sporting societies, a venue that placed the clothes inside a charged athletic setting where his long-running study of movement, masculinity, and performance gained a direct physical frame.

Sitting front row to take it all in was NBA Champion Jordan Clarkson of the New York Knicks, who just helped bring the franchise its first NBA title in decades. He was joined by fellow NBA players Jaren Jackson Jr. of the Memphis Grizzlies and Jarred Vanderbilt, all three courtside for Nash’s exploration of the male physique in sport.

STANCE is Nash’s most direct exploration yet of how masculinity is constructed, performed, and desired.

“The collection began through researching archival imagery of sports figures and male pin-ups, examining how masculinity is constructed and performed through both clothes and gesture,” Nash said in a statement. The result is a collection that gives sportswear a sharper sensuality while keeping the technical foundation that has defined his work since winning the 2022 International Woolmark Prize.

The wrestling singlet provides one of the collection’s clearest codes. Nash transforms its outline into a graphic that appears on compression tops, tracing the torso with lines that suggest athletic discipline and erotic tension. The same graphic, also resembling the lines of a sports hall floor, appears across breathable mesh knits first developed for his Woolmark Prize-winning collection. Varsity moments run throughout: striped knitted panels creep down the back of bomber jackets, and waterproof shirts carry the wrestling singlet shape in perforated outline across the torso.

Fabric choices strengthen the collection’s central idea. Lightweight nylon ripstop twinsets appear in pale yellow and rustic orange, with panels of varied opacity that expose small sections of skin. Semi-sheer track jackets and cycling shorts in super-stretch mesh and Lycra keep the body visible and active. Denim arrives with a worn-in finish, while trousers use darts that open during motion.

Nash also revisits his nipple-exposing Henley shirts in collegiate-inspired colorways, giving the wearer the choice to reveal more of themselves. A merino wool pinstripe jacket borrows its shape from equestrian uniforms but arrives with a built-in hood. A floor-length rain jacket is cut like a double-breasted trench. A suede jacket comes fitted with ventilation holes. Every piece is engineered with the body in motion as its central concern.

Nash also introduces his second footwear design in partnership with APICCAPS and TOWORKFOR, a reinterpretation of a boat shoe equipped with a mesh and suede upper and a drawstring-style fastening on the laces, extending the collection’s mix of athletic utility and menswear familiarity.

The show also served as the preview for SLNSH Summer 2026, the fifth and final chapter in Nash’s collaboration with lululemon. The collection celebrates summer with lenticular prints, lightweight layers, and coastal tones, featuring sun-faded jersey tracksuits, half-zip bodysuits, printed t-shirts, and waterproof jackets adorned with a moving bodies motif.

The SLNSH Summer 2026 collection drops on lululemon.com and in stores across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and China on June 30, 2026.

Photo Credit: Satine Arribas / Saul Nash