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No matter what shadows loom over your parade of self-expression, let clothes guide you to the light. In the fog of uncertainty emerges a precipitation... a brilliant clarity to silence the noise from without, allowing you to centre on the creative energy between you.

Dreams have the power to alter reality, and our May 2025 cover star and actor Jirawat Sutivanichsak — also known as Dew — questions them with bluntness and guarded optimism despite having spent half a decade in the spotlight.

Through the top 5 faces of the Men’s Folio Model of the Year, clothing is now presented in its purest state — unfiltered, unpolished and undeniably disruptive.

A television star once observed that “in fashion, one day you’re in, the next day you’re out.” As fashion experiences a seismic shakeup in creative direction, one wonders if there is not a bigger systemic issue.

Go the distance.

The menswear Spring Summer 2025 collections may exhibit few complexities, but together they reveal a singular message: style is not just worn, it is performed. This season, approach style as it lives with you, sparks your mood, and shapes your presence. After all, fashion goes beyond the seams to define your character.

Perhaps that men should make room for more tenderness and self-awareness, or even empathy — because there certainly is soft power in the supple bags of SS25.

The nostalgia of youth is coloured by rosy tints and hallmarks of one’s formative steps intoadulthood. And perhaps that should be the colour to be carried with the self from then on; an oath to lightness even after one has come of age.