Kestin Takes Connor Newall Straight to the Scottish Elements
Connor Newall heads to the Hebrides for Kestin’s fall-winter 2026 campaign, and thankfully nobody tried to sand down the weather, texture or distinctly Scottish character along the way. Shot by Andy Foote on Islay, the campaign puts Newall into a wardrobe of Fair Isle knits, corduroy, denim, tweed and quilted outerwear built to look better with actual life happening around it.
The collection pulls inspiration from island life and Whisky Galore!, giving traditional Scottish references a contemporary menswear shape. Instead of treating heritage as something precious and untouchable, Kestin lets it get rained on, worn to the pub, taken down to the shoreline and layered however the day demands.
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Get Into Kestin’s Scottish Layers
Fair Isle, corduroy and practical outerwear are doing the heavy lifting here. Start with Kestin, then pull a little of the texture into your own fall rotation.
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Newall’s casting fits the clothes especially well. There is nothing overly styled-for-the-camera about the way these pieces land on him; the appeal comes from the textures, proportions and layers doing their thing without screaming for attention. It is rugged menswear, but not the costume version of rugged menswear.
The pub shot may be thee easiest sell of the bunch: cream-and-charcoal buffalo check, a pint on the table and the kind of setting where a substantial wool overshirt actually makes sense. Kestin understands that good cold-weather clothes do not need a dramatic fantasy attached to them. Sometimes they just need somewhere believable to go.
Across the rest of the campaign, Foote keeps Newall moving between coast, harbor, fields and local interiors while the clothes shift from patterned wool to herringbone, quilted layers, denim and head-to-toe corduroy. The through line is simple: these are pieces designed to accumulate a little character rather than remain pristine.
Our pick? That corduroy look outside the Islay Bar. The matching jacket and wide trousers could have gone full vintage reenactment, but the striped shirt and Fair Isle vest keep it loose enough to feel current. That is basically the campaign’s sweet spot: heritage with the starch taken out.
Kestin fall-winter 2026 is not trying to reinvent Scottish menswear from scratch. It is doing something smarter — keeping the recognizable codes, changing the proportions and proving they still work when worn by an actual person in an actual place. Connor Newall just happens to make the whole thing look annoyingly easy.
Source: The Fashionisto / Kestin.
