Nico Gavino

Nico Gavino writes about men's style as part of a wider cultural story, bringing together runway collections, designer collaborations and pop moments in a single beat. He is a fashion writer at Hypebeast with a stated focus on the intersection of pop culture and men's style. Over more than 1,000 articles for the masthead, he covers contemporary fashion and culture from streetwear and sneakers to art, design, music, entertainment and lifestyle.

Runway seasons and collection reports

Runway coverage is a core part of Gavino’s work, and he treats each season as a lens on broader shifts in taste and masculinity. He reports on shows such as Giorgio Armani’s lax and leisurely Spring/Summer 2027 collection, emphasizing mood and silhouette over simple product listing. Across fashion month, he unpacks themes like the move from quiet luxury to bolder expression, using Fall/Winter 2026 trend roundups to question rigid definitions of taste. His show reports often highlight how tailoring, sportswear and archival references meet in a single collection, as in his coverage of a guest designer at Pitti Uomo’s 108th edition in Florence, described as a synthesis of elegant suiting and avant-garde activewear.

Gavino’s runway writing is attentive to fashion history and designer signatures. In one collection feature, he calls out 1950s archival references, subtle Demna touches and Piccioli’s rich vision, presenting the show as a conversation between past and present rather than a standalone event. He routinely situates collections within a designer’s ongoing narrative, noting how cuts, fabric choices and styling update familiar codes, and he links those decisions to cultural moments beyond the runway.

Designer profiles and industry narratives

Alongside show reports, Gavino writes closely observed profiles of designers that track their career arcs and aesthetic philosophies. His coverage of a Belgian designer who previously worked at Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten, and later won the 2025 ANDAM Grand Prize, follows the progression from studio insider to independent name and uses that trajectory to illustrate how talent moves through the industry. He treats awards and appointments as opportunities to explain why a particular designer matters, not just that they have been recognized.

His interviews extend this focus on process and belief. For Hypebeast Magazine, he speaks with Camiel Fortgens, framing the conversation around ideas like imperfection as documentation rather than damage and the construction of garments that resist polish. In another discussion, he engages with how experiences in the Global South reshaped a collaborator’s understanding of utility in clothing, tying archive wading jackets and similar pieces back to lived environments and needs. These features show a consistent interest in how designers think, how they build their references and how those ideas reach the consumer.

Pop culture, red carpet and music style

Gavino’s beat extends beyond the runway to the spaces where fashion meets celebrity and performance. He writes about the “Fashion Is Art” Met Gala through an interview with a Puerto Rican reggaetón artist, foregrounding how the musician approached the carpet as both cultural statement and personal style moment. In this kind of coverage, he connects garments to identity, showing how artists use fashion to negotiate visibility, heritage and genre.

His pieces on music and visual culture take a similar approach. One feature follows a multi-hyphenate artist wearing archival Givenchy by Alexander McQueen, performing alongside a synchronized troupe of dancers for an electro-pop track, using the styling to frame the video’s narrative and mood. Trend stories like his Fall/Winter 2026 analysis, which charts the shift away from quiet luxury toward louder, more experimental dressing, also draw heavily on pop references and performance looks to illustrate where taste is moving. This cross-pollination between fashion, music and celebrity sets his coverage apart from writers who focus on runway or product alone.

Design collaborations and lifestyle objects

Gavino regularly covers collaborations that sit at the intersection of fashion, interiors and lifestyle. In his article on Gustaf Westman’s full IKEA collection, he breaks down the 12-piece range—part of the “Vinterfint” winter offering—for its playful approach to festive homewares, describing plates, cups, candleholders and lighting alongside price points and release dates. Here, he treats tableware and lighting with the same seriousness as clothing, emphasizing how design language moves across categories.

He also writes about historically rooted objects and retail environments, such as a design originally created for a Paris boutique in 1983 that reflects its founder’s minimal, brutalist sensibility. In these stories, the focus is on how form, material and context express a brand’s values in three dimensions. Whether covering an exhibition with a digitized archive or a store fixture revived from the 1980s, Gavino links objects back to the cultural stories they carry, reinforcing his broader interest in style as a lived, spatial experience as much as a garment.