Sunny Summer Shirts, Collabs Galore, and More of This Week's Coolest Menswear Releases

This week was all about making new friends. I, for one, added a few when I took a flight to Bar Harbor. In a plane the size of a sardine can, five strangers and I collectively experienced the mind-numbing vibrato of the engine, lack of cabin pressurization, and ever-so-constant turbulence. We had to laugh to evade our first impulse: panic. The experience was unlike any other, but we all found common ground in it. Not at all harrowing, but equally memorable, are the number of collabs that launched recently. These are the best kind of friendships.

We have specs by Gentle Monster and Heron Preston that will level-up your style game. Vans joined forces with Metallica on some rockin’ kicks. Levi’s also went the music route, but with the Grateful Dead instead. Converse reimagined its iconic Chuck 70 with Rick Owens. And Adidas built something with Lego. Some are strange pairings, others are expected, but all, unlike my nearish-to-death experience, are pretty amazing. Cop them all now why they’re still around.

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