Pal Zileri softens the suit without losing the polish
Mike Vasilakis and Itshak Vanunu front Pal Zileri’s Fall/Winter 2026 campaign, giving the Italian house’s tailoring a looser, more tactile way to move.
Photographed by Stefano Galuzzi and styled by Chidozie Obasi, the campaign lives in that sweet spot between dressed-up and off-duty: suede overshirts, herringbone, cable knits, brushed wool and relaxed pleated trousers all doing their part to make the traditional suit feel a little less precious.
The Look
Pal Zileri F/W 2026
See the full seasonal direction from Pal Zileri, then shop into the texture-heavy mood with herringbone and cable knits.
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Pal Zileri describes the season as a meeting point between reality and abstraction, staging the clothes in an intentionally artificial urban space before stripping the setting back to near-darkness so the fabrics can do the talking. That approach fits the collection: the clothes are familiar, but the combinations keep shifting the old rules.
Outerwear is the anchor. Structured coats sit beside softer suede shirt jackets and overshirts, while knitwear slips underneath tailoring instead of behaving like an afterthought. The palette stays grounded in gray, camel and brown, but the mix of texture keeps it from ever feeling flat.
Vasilakis handles the lighter side of the story especially well, moving through gray checks, pale knitwear and camel tailoring without turning the looks too polished. Vanunu brings the darker counterpoint in suede, pinstripes and compact utility-inspired layers. Together, the casting gives Pal Zileri exactly what the collection needs: two very different ways of making grown-up clothes feel current.
The most convincing part is how little the campaign seems interested in drawing a hard line between “formal” and “casual.” A checked suit gets a knit layer instead of the expected shirt-and-tie stiffness; a suede overshirt can carry the weight of a jacket; a cardigan can sit where tailoring usually would. It is still very much Pal Zileri — just with the collar loosened.
Take in the full campaign below, where Galuzzi’s mix of dark studio portraits and softened city backdrops lets the tailoring, texture and the models do the rest.
Photography: Stefano Galuzzi / Pal Zileri. Styling: Chidozie Obasi.
Source: Pal Zileri; campaign credits and imagery verified via The Fashionisto and Models.com.
