Most swimwear edits treat the trunk as the destination, the thing a man changes into when the day narrows to the beach. Massimo Dutti’s summer outing with Valentin Humbroich flips that logic, shooting along the rocky Mallorcan coast where the swim short is the first thing on and the last thing off.
Massimo Dutti Swimwear Summer 2026
Every other garment, from a linen popover to a crew neck sweater at dusk, layers over the trunks as though the day started in the water and everything since has been an improvisation upward. The swim short becomes the garment a man is always wearing; the question is only what goes on top.
The shorts themselves do the work of keeping that formula from going flat. A rotation of solids, paisley prints, stripes, and textured charcoal, change the mood of whatever covers them. A paisley pair under a white linen shirt looks like a different man than a solid navy pair under the same shirt, which is the whole trick of the edit.
The warm and grainy photography, shot by Jorge Perez Ortiz, sells the premise that this is one continuous day. For Massimo Dutti, it lands as a proposition. It’s a wardrobe that begins at its most reduced point and expands outward, where a single piece navigates the day and everything added only sharpens the man wearing it.
The stripped-back approach to dressing continues in the Massimo Dutti wardrobe at rest.
