Haider Ackermann

A dust and black silk jacket over a wool felt shirt with Gaudi silk pants, a black and ivory striped cotton scarf, and Visconti python shoes HAIDER ACKERMANN. Haider wears his own jewelry throughout

men’s wardrobe

photography by BENOIT PEVERELLI
style by ROBERT RABENSTEINER
interview by SVEN SCHUMANN

 

SVEN SCHUMANN — You showed your first men’s collection during Pitti Uomo in 2011. Why did you take a step away from menswear afterward and wait two years to show the next collection?
HAIDER ACKERMANN — When I was approached by Pitti Uomo, they gave me carte blanche to do whatever I wanted. So when I was in Florence visiting all those palaces and empty places and imagining the woman who would be wandering around there, I felt like she would be waiting for someone. So I started wondering, “Who is this man that she’s waiting…