Supreme Week: Brown, Trail Derbies, Retro Mutations

Hypebeast's drops roundup reads like a menswear syllabus. Supreme's expansive FW26 collaboration with Martine Rose leads: heavy outerwear, patchwork leather, co-branded tracksuits, a custom JBL Partybox, shearling mini duffle — and an exclusive co-branded Nike Dunk Low. The Jeff Hamilton Shearling Coat is the centerpiece, and the drop is live now.

Behind it: Stüssy × Denim Tears' narrative-driven FW26 capsule (orange technical windbreaker with the double-S and cotton wreath, launched Oct 16); Kith × Giorgio Armani's third collaboration, Dreams of the Dune — belted shearling jackets and silk-cashmere desert tailoring after a runway in Morocco's Agafay desert; and Palace Winter 2026 Drop 3 with the Caravaggio shirt and Pertex Squared Jacket.

Highsnobiety's wildcard: Needles × A Tribe Called Quest — The Low End Theory artwork reworked through butterfly logos, a co-logo tracksuit, and a Corgi-knit roll-neck cardigan. Four collabs, one weekend.

Eight styles, two drops. MM6 and Salomon's FW26 collection keeps fusing performance identity with MM6 design details, and the headline is genuinely new: the Crossderby MM6, a glossy black leather derby upper married to Salomon's drawstring closure and a rugged trail sole. SneakerNews calls it a sharp collision of formalwear and outdoor functionality; Sole Retriever gives it 5.4K hypes' worth of attention on Hypebeast.

Drop 1 (Oct 22) pairs the Crossderby with three new XT-MM6 colorways. Drop 2 (Nov 17) goes weirder: the gaitered XT-BOOT MM6 with its massive puffer-like cover, and the ACS Pro MM6 in Urban Chic and Cosmic Sky.

Same week, Salomon's own Expedition Pack (Oct 23) channels 1980s climbing gear in distressed brown suede — the trail-shoe moment is now fully dressed.

Edison Chen's CLOT is back on the Superstar after a few months off, and the FW26 pack (released Oct 16 via the CONFIRMED app) goes two ways: a navy blue suede pair on the slanted spike sole, and a cardboard colorway with a slip-on mule heel — a direct play on the clog wave sweeping sneaker culture. Prices: $200 for the blue, $180 for the mule, unisex sizing.

The mutation lane is crowded: Song for the Mute's adidas Samba OG (HQ7600) landed Oct 16 at $130 — SoleGRIND calls it the strongest Samba mutation of the FW26 lineup — and the Molly-Mae × adidas Samba in Matcha gets its US drop Oct 23. Dover Street Market's New Balance SuperComp Elite v6 drops Oct 22.

Underneath it all, the base trend holds: low-profile retro silhouettes. Speedcat for the fashion crowd, Samba OG as the default, NB 530 for the cushioned 90s lane.

OPUMO's October menswear roundup is blunt: if you buy one colour this autumn, make it brown — specifically chocolate. It's been gaining ground for seasons, but now it works across leather, wool, corduroy and suede. TrendDiaryPro's Oct 21 suede-jacket guide names chocolate and mid-brown suede the most versatile first buy; Canali's FW26 leans into washed browns, caramel and espresso.

The street-level formula is tonal layering: tobacco suede over chocolate wool over ecru. On feet, the season's loafer is the Palomo 1953 in Polo brown — C.F. Stead Repello suede, handsewn beefroll, picked by GQ's circle as the fall shoe at $280. Flint and Tinder's brushed-sateen fatigue pant in British Khaki ($128) is the trouser version of the same idea.

Black had a long run. Chocolate is the new anchor — richer than navy, warmer than grey.

Ralph Lauren is having a comeback, per Highsnobiety's new-arrivals edit — classic Polo codes sharpened for now. The data backs the mood: Zegna like-for-like up 16.9%, Brunello Cucinelli up 9.5% in H1. And dunhill just announced as Pitti Uomo 111's guest designer under Simon Holloway's cutting edge classicism.

Joe's Daily's Oct 12 Autumn Uniform crystallizes the formula: white Oxford, fatigue pants, boiled-wool blazer, suede loafers, an automatic watch. The watch pick is the Shinola Duck Automatic 3HD at 38mm — a first-batch limited edition of 1,000, Miyota 9085, with an H-link bracelet and a blue tropic rubber strap, $1,095 on Huckberry.

Highsnobiety adds the underrated staple: the long-sleeve polo. Greyscale tonal dressing, per the SS27 mood — silhouette and texture do the talking where color used to.