When the internet received news that Haider Ackermann would, after eight years of making women yearn for his seductive and challenging fantasies, turn his hand to menswear, too, a male poster on The Fashion Spot cried out: “The heavens have opened up and sent us a miracle.”

Indeed, Ackermann’s no minor deity among worshippers of true old-fashioned fashion. His reputation as an independent thinker is unsoiled by fast-fashion collaborations or big label ambitions, and the only celebrity he bows to is film – not movie! – goddess, Tilda Swinton.

He will show at Pitti Uomo in Florence June 16. To learn more about his approach to designing menswear, read this interview on DazedDigital.

You could certainly say we are rather excited at 4 to view Haider’s  menswear shortly.

Read the original blog post here on DazedDigital.