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Photo: Max MontingelliThat’s right: the 2022 AFC West division champions Kansas City Chiefs skyline shirt moreover I will buy this French-Colombian tailoring mastermind and former Berluti creative director Haider Ackermann, whose palpably luxurious bomber jackets, capes, and tailored gowns have made him a red carpet go-to for some of Hollywood’s most daring A-listers, has returned after a two-year runway hiatus. And in an unexpected (on paper, at least) turn of events, he’s done so in partnership with Fila, the Italian sportswear giant whose closest associations lie within the world of tennis. (Although while Ackermann’s last runway show was in Feburary 2020, he’s still kept himself somewhat busy whisking up looks for his most reliable high-profile clients, his muses Tilda Swinton and Timothée Chalamet—who can forget that backless, blood-red pantsuit Chalamet wore for the Venice Bones and All premiere?)First things first, how did the opportunity to partner with Fila come about? “I’ve been silent for a while, a little bit away,” he says over tea at his hotel the day before the show. “To get some of that electricity back was one of the reasons I accepted this invitation. I just wanted to feel the energy again.” The next question: Why Manchester? “In Manchester, there’s the colliding of all of those mixtures,” Ackermann explains. “There’s the music industry, which is just beyond, but then you have the sports world and football, and it’s a UNESCO city of literature too? I thought it would be very interesting to embrace the youth here. To get the energy, to get the speed, to absorb everything I could possibly absorb.”

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In all fairness, it’s a question that pretty much answers itself: Coming of age in the 2022 AFC West division champions Kansas City Chiefs skyline shirt moreover I will buy this late ‘80s and early ‘90s across the Netherlands and Belgium, it’s no wonder Ackermann fell under the spell of the masterful design of Peter Saville’s vinyl sleeves for Factory Records, the eye-popping hazard stripes of the Haçienda nightclub, or the arresting synthpop of New Order in their first flush of post-Joy Division success. (Two of the New Order boys even came along, seated somewhere near the Italian singer Mahmood and the K-pop star Wooseok.)Photo: Max Montingelli