Dolce & Gabbana Menswear F/W 2025.26 : Kit Butler by Steven Meisel

[9sete]

dolcegabbana.com

 

[lhhbl]

ooooh yeeees!!

 

[berbe]

fabulous!!!

 

[Scotty]

Love it. He looks a little different in the second.

 

[DK92]

Very JLO for Elle by Gilles Bensimon and This Is Me… Then by Tony Duran, LOVE IT!

 

[fashionlov]

YES

 

[Kanzai]

Nonstop B&W shots for many seasons lol, this team is losing it. Things r getting same old same old

 

[ivano]

Kit is scoring one D&C campaign after another. Want to know who will be the female counterpart (or if this will going to be a group like the SS season). Lulu maybe?

 

[Lola701]

Yeah…I find it tacky.

 

[MDNA]

Kit cant pull off this look.

 

[fashionsavvvvvy]

I feel like i should like it… it’s Meisel not in a blank studio setting… but i don’t. There’s something about the lighting makes it look cheap

 

[Cocteau Stone]

All I see is Klein for DSquared. And it’s a bland iteration of that too.

Kit is a good model, but the makeup and angles/lighting is like they tried to make him look a little more like someone else. Needs more machismo to make this work - which would have made the tackiness work in their favour - and Kit doesn’t have that exactly.

 

[Mody]

If they want that Bach guy they could hire him instead of using Kit to do cosplay

 

[aa2005]

So retro and dated, as a long time fan I have to be honest and say that meisel hasn’t put anything out in over a decade that is even memorable. Good sure impactful or worth what he charges people not at all. He's like a LV neverfull bag, you're being scammed in price thinking you will get a quality bag then realize your overpaying for coated canvas that makes you look like every other basic with it. It’s time to retire because he’s definitely not going out like his predecessors that kept making beautiful work up until their last breaths.

 

[Lola701]

All I see is Klein for DSquared. And it’s a bland iteration of that too.

Klein for Dsquared is less tacky than this. This is a very terrible glossy-esque type of tackiness in photography. Very Michael by Michael Kors circa 2007.

At least Dsquared has humor and you are in the joke.

For me, this is as bad as what he does for Anna Sui.

 

[ivano]

By now, to me the ad is about a youg celebrity or rockstar. If it is the case, It's not the first time he does this theme. I remember his eds for the VH1 awards seasons. Also he made Madonna for the last time, a pop icon. Michael Kors to me is about luxury, young group posing inside a yate or helicopter, taken by Mario Testino. Maybe this makes me think about 212 ads for Carolina Herrera (CH ads by Testino looked tacky!), but not those Karmen Pedaru campaigns which I love and miss as well. Two pictures by far. Looking for the rest and the female version to be sure about it. Not dislinking, I love it! If this makes me look like a fool, I'm a happy one

 

[chrisand489]

(Esquire)

 

[ivano]

No sign of the female campaign? The September issues are out

 

[MModa]

No sign of the female campaign? The September issues are out

The September issues of US Vogue and Harper's Bazaar might be out in New York or Los Angeles, but definitely not everywhere in the USA. US Elle is not out at all. The digital issues are probably not out either.

 

[Bertrando3]

I'm very disappointed by this, usually Kit is a great editorial and runway model. However, even though it pains me to say it: Steven Meisel didn't manage to give us a good commercial side of him because past commercial jobs with ads of other luxurious brands worked better and Steven even shot Kit for Versace with better success than these. Kit perhaps didn't pull this ad off the way possible.

I reckon he's great on the runway and amazing in so so many editorials so here it's Steven's fault.