{"id":500984,"date":"2026-06-19T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:23:14","slug":"4-style-moves-to-steal-from-simone-rochas-sensuous-debut-menswear-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500984\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Style Moves to Steal From Simone Rocha\u2019s Sensuous Debut Menswear Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to a new era of Show Notes, in which a rotating cast of contributors from across the global GQ network will deliver breaking menswear intel, intrepid trend reporting, and amusing asides direct to your inbox all Fashion Month long. (Sign up here to get it free.<\/a>) First up: senior style editor Yang-Yi Goh taps in from a scintillating Simone Rocha show in Florence.<\/p>\n

For her first-ever standalone menswear show on Thursday evening, the Irish designer Simone Rocha<\/a> commandeered Florence\u2019s soaringly ornate Teatro Della Pergola, one of Italy\u2019s oldest opera houses. The models stepped out onto the stage, circled its raw, unadorned contours, and then descended into the audience, strutting up the aisle between tidy rows of red velvet seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minute I walked into the theater, I felt transported to a whole new universe,\u201d Rocha said the morning before her spring 2027 presentation, explaining that she\u2019d designed the 38 looks with specific characters in mind: painters, tradespeople, dancers. \u201cI wanted them to perform and to put them on the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The irony is that Rocha\u2019s parade of romantic leading men\u2014delicately clad in ruched windbreakers and eyelet-embroidered bloomers, with the occasional tulle boa slung over the shoulder\u2014often felt a great deal less performative and costume-y than some of the guys peacocking in over-accessorized pastel suits outside Pitti Immagine Uomo, the preeminent menswear trade show that brought Rocha here as a guest designer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels tender, but also feels grounded,\u201d Rocha said of the collection, which flowed from billowy tailoring to bookish knits to playfully suggestive aprons. While the 39-year-old launched her men\u2019s line in 2023<\/a>, this opportunity to focus wholly on it seems to have unlocked a new level of craft and depth. \u201cWhat\u2019s been really interesting is thinking about the codes and the details,\u201d she said, \u201cand forcing myself to slow down and look at what I can do, what I want to propose as a masculine wardrobe, and then carve out space for myself in this place.\u201d<\/p>\n

The resulting line is Rocha\u2019s most fully realized\u2014and Simone Rocha-iest\u2014men\u2019s offering yet: preppy and punkish, pretty and provocative, flirty and full of feeling. It\u2019s all stuff tailor-made for the cohort of mousy, sensitive internet boyfriends currently running the table in Hollywood; don\u2019t be surprised to see Josh O\u2019Connor<\/a> or Hudson Williams<\/a> pop up in one of the lacy blouses or kilt-like pleated shorts at Cannes next spring.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a closer look at a handful of the cheeky style moves worth emulating and the beguiling grails worth coveting.<\/p>\n

The Tee-and-Tailoring Combo Goes Turbo<\/p>\n

Remember those crocheted camp shirts<\/a> that became the menswear catnip du jour a few summers back? Turns out they were just laying the groundwork for the full-tilt lace tops and silky bowed tunics we saw onstage last night. While Rocha did send a few models down the runway in such unapologetically feminine shirts with arms exposed, \u00e0 la Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd in his slinky Dior going-out top<\/a>, I was far more taken with them peeking out from beneath the drapey tailoring. Consider it an advanced alternative to the ol\u2019 T-shirt-under-a-blazer standby\u2014or a very welcome upgrade on the recent rash of celebrities choosing to go shirtless with their suits on the red carpet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to a new era of Show Notes, in which a rotating cast of contributors from across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,132496,55643,9173,7945,5101],"class_list":["post-500984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-pitti-uomo","tag-show-notes","tag-style","tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}