The Mexican-American designer displays a colorful array of zoot suits, workwear, and contemporary cholo fashion at Paris Men's Fashion Week.

Around 80 years ago, at the heart of the Jazz Age, an audacious suit silhouette&mdash;wide shouldered, small-waisted, pegged-hem&mdash;emerged from the Harlem stages. This "zoot suit" eventually spread like wildfire among immigrant communities in America, including Mexican American men in the&nbsp;pachuco&nbsp;subculture.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/tags/willy-chavarria">Willy Chavarria</a>&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/tags/spring-summer-2026">Spring/Summer 2026</a>&nbsp;sprawling, 74-look runway show, &ldquo;Huron,&rdquo; is an ode to&nbsp;pachucos, whose daring fashion paved the way for the Chicano Movement of the 1960s.
In many ways, Chavarria draws elements from his past work in the Spring/Summer 2026 collection&mdash;sprinkling some workwear here, some cholo-inspired streetwear there&mdash;to craft a visual timeline of Mexican-American fashion. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/tags/parisfashionweek">Men's Paris Fashion Week</a>&nbsp;show, set on a red carpet, begins with a flurry of colorful, oversized&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/tags/suits">suits</a>. Pocket squares peek out the suits&rsquo; pockets, evoking an old-school chivalry. Further into the show, the contemporary cholo-style sneaks in, with knee-length wide shorts and dark tights replacing long trousers.&nbsp;
Not too long after, streetwear morphs into workwear with embroidered labels, such as &ldquo;Chavarria Community Centre.&rdquo; The keychains that first made an appearance in last year&rsquo;s Spring/Summer show are present again. The latter end of the show expands on these work labels with eponymous logomania, including one that reads, &ldquo;Justice, Honor, Integrity&mdash;Chavarria Global Unification Association.&rdquo; The designer imagines a fleet of workers tasked with making the world a better place. Some womenswear appears in this men&rsquo;s show, including cinched trench coats, vibrant dresses, and colored tights, a l&agrave; 60s mod.
The accessory and beauty details pulled the looks together and inserted a bodacious swagger to the collection. Many models donned dark sunglasses and gravity-defying updos for the runway show, named after his hometown.&nbsp;Several stars and supermodels walked the runway, including Paloma Elsesser, Gabriette, and football player (and Cardi B's boyfriend) Stefon Diggs.
Keep scrolling to see some standout looks from the Willy Chavarria Spring/Summer 2026 collection below.

Willy Chavarria walks the runway at the end of his Spring/Summer 2026 show at Paris Fashion Week.

Willy Chavarria Spring/Summer 2026 Fuses Fashion's Past and Present

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Willy Chavarria Spring/Summer 2026 Fuses Fashion's Past and Present

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