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How does one stay true to themselves while honing endless potential? Our Men’s Folio July 2026 digital cover star Mile Phakphum shares.

The runways have long celebrated absurdity, play, and polish in equal measure. Yet offstage, men still shy from that same freedom. As fashion flirts with theatricality again, what is keeping men from embracing whimsy?

As a cosmic force of talent at just 21, the Thai star is the gift that keeps on giving.

The Superbowl of fashion returns with a culturally significant theme for 2025, highlighting the evolution of Black style within Europe and America over the past 300 years. In a time when conversations about race are still challenging for some, can clothes convey stories that words cannot?

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.

Dressed to impress.

After school.

The spirit of giving.