Spencer Badu’s Fall 2026 Collection 018 Remixes Tailoring, Streetwear & Ghanaian References

Spencer Badu keeps menswear moving instead of behaving itself

Spencer Badu unveils Fall 2026 Collection 018, and once again the Toronto designer is much more interested in remixing the rules of menswear than neatly following them.

Documented in London, the collection follows models Ottawa Kwami and Rasharn Powell through the city in a wardrobe that shifts between tailoring, sportswear, knitwear, military references and streetwear without forcing any one category to take over. As FY Magazine! puts it, the clothes feel less like a prescribed uniform and more like a wardrobe in motion.

The tailoring is where Badu starts bending expectations. A wool officer’s coat gets buttons running down the back seam, while a silver cowrie brooch lands somewhere between jewelry, talisman and insignia. His ongoing Post-Work Tailoring language also shows up in a stand-collar field jacket and straight-leg chinos in black and khaki, both carrying the brand’s signature double-waist detail.

There is structure, but almost nothing here feels stiff. An ivory striped knit softens the mood, while color-blocked fleece zip tops and anoraks twist raglan construction into silhouettes that nod to Ghanaian cloth draped over the shoulder. That reference is built into the way the garments sit and move rather than pasted on as decoration.

Elsewhere, a padded nylon vest covered in custom pins and the maroon-and-black Scattered Button Cardigan loosen things up even further. Badu’s red, gold and green triptych returns as a knit that can sit over the shoulders or wrap around the neck, while a full-zip hoodie adds an asymmetrical button closure and a reworked varsity graphic.

That remix logic runs through the whole collection. Familiar shapes get shifted, repeated and dropped into new contexts, which makes the hip-hop connection feel less like styling shorthand and more like method: take something you know, change the frame and see what it becomes.

Collection 018 turns getting dressed into an open edit

The London imagery makes that idea even clearer. Rather than posing Kwami and Powell as passive mannequins, the series is described as being primarily shot as self-portraits, making the models active participants in how the clothes are seen. Identity here is not presented as fixed; it is something assembled, revised and tested in real time.

That also fits the broader Spencer Badu point of view. The designer has spent years pulling apart the borders between formal and casual, polished and practical, masculine and ornamental. Collection 018 does not hand over one definitive way to wear any of it — it gives you the ingredients and leaves the final edit to the person getting dressed.

Images: Spencer Badu via FY Magazine!

The collection is now available through Spencer Badu, but the more interesting part is the proposition underneath it: menswear does not have to choose between discipline and looseness, tailoring and streetwear, heritage and experimentation. Badu keeps all of it in the same conversation.