The stylist Ibrahim Kamara has spent some time considering alternate realities. His work, which incorporates both current high-fashion looks and pieces from his personal collection (some of them are even sourced from dumpster dives), often weaves together what’s traditionally termed masculine and feminine; as part of 2026, a project with the South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman that appeared in a group exhibition at Somerset House in 2016, he imagined how men’s wear might reflect changing attitudes about masculinity a decade later. For the cover of T’s spring Men’s Fashion issue, Kamara partnered with the photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott to conjure a hauntingly dissonant landscape. They imagined an apocalyptic wasteland where delicate decorative accents — like floral headpieces and billowing sleeves — and bondage-inflected leather and metal hardware come together with hardy utilitarian underpinnings to create something radical and new.
Models: Clement Hennebert at Girl Mgmt, Xu Meen at IMG Models, Jal Bui at Next Management and Martin Klein at New Madison Models. Hair by Virginie Moreira at Saint Luke. Makeup by Holly Silius at Frank Reps using MAC Cosmetics. Casting by Calvin Wilson at Establishment Casting. Production: Palm Productions. Photo assistants: Sinclair Jaspard Mandy and Pavel Woznicki. Stylist’s assistants: Sasha Harris, Felix Paradza and Carla Carlos. Makeup assistant: Imogen Heald. Hair assistants: Stephanie Craig and Kelly Peach.
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