WILLY CHAVARRIA ETERNO: MILAN AW2026

SøEdited Team
SøEditor-in-Chief: Chris Saint Sims 
​SøFashion Director: Savannah Barthorpe

Willy Chavarria operates beyond fashion. What he proposes is a posture, a way of being visible without becoming accessible. A studied unapproachability that remains sexually alive, intriguing, and charged. Sultry without sadness. Distant, yet potentially available. Focused, but never resolved.

For Autumn/Winter 2026, Chavarria presented ETERNO at Paris Fashion Week as a cinematic experience rather than a conventional runway. Music, movement, and performance merged into a fluid narrative where clothes revealed themselves through emotion rather than pose. This was fashion designed to be felt before it was seen.

At its core, ETERNO examined faith, not in a religious sense, but as a question of what anchors us, what we trust, and what carries us forward. The main collection unfolded through elevated daywear: strong tailoring, tactile dresses, shearling, mid-weight outerwear, and accessories that balanced authority with vulnerability. Each look held tension, between softness and control, intimacy and armour.

Formalwear remained central. Relaxed tuxedos for men moved with ease rather than ceremony. Women wore shimmering, textured cocktail dresses and sculptural gowns shaped for slow, deliberate movement. Silhouettes shifted fluidly: cinched waists and assertive shoulders gave way to elongated drape, relaxed mini shirt dresses, and tailored forms that felt lived-in rather than styled.

Menswear stayed rooted in luxury sportswear, sharpened with refinement. Cashmere track jackets, elevated utility pieces, graphic jerseys, and tailored workwear trousers carried the spirit of 1970s athleticism, worn, cherished, reimagined. Chavarria’s signature codes persisted: slim waists, broadened shoulders, generous hips, and legs cut wide, flared, cropped, or tapered with intention.

Queer intimacy, long central to Chavarria’s language, came into sharper focus through a collaboration with Grindr. Introduced discreetly via mesh underwear, the partnership framed connection as catalyst rather than statement. “The show is rooted in love, desire and human connection,” Chavarria noted, positioning Grindr as the space where encounters evolve into stories that fuel ETERNO’s emotional core.

The debut of Big Willy, a new evergreen workwear line, expanded the universe without diluting it. Chinos, shirts, bombers, and Sutton coach jackets in khaki and black introduced humour, accessibility, and democratic ease, an entry point into Chavarria’s world that remained aligned with his values.

ETERNO wasn’t about spectacle. It was about presence.
A collection that didn’t ask for attention, it held it.

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Director of Photography: Benoît Debie 
Runway Photography: Gaspar Lindberg