Ib Kamara gave Off-White a single brief for fall, Miles Davis, and a London producer to score it. “MR. DAVIS,” the brand’s Fall/Winter 2026 collection, opened on Thursday morning (March 5) in the sunlit courtyard of a Parisian public secondary school, dotted with clusters of green spheres, on the third day of Paris runways.
Kamara’s mantra for the season was “a place where disruptive is not a style but a condition,” and the clothes took it literally. Per Hypebeast, the show opened on a patchwork trench in washed brown suede, then ran through flared denim punctured with spheres, low-slung knit vests, Canadian tuxedos, cobalt blue tracksuits and bedazzled cardigans. Patent leather sets gleamed under the lights.
The Miles Davis estate signed on, which let Kamara print images of Davis’s 1980s Malibu home, his face and the title of his 1971 track “Yesternow” on key pieces, Clash reported. His own wardrobe came back too, as reworked polka dots and 1970s silhouettes. The collection leaned on the Bitches Brew era and Betty Davis, the singer-songwriter whose whirlwind romance with the trumpeter shaped it.
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It also closes a loop for the label. Virgil Abloh told Vogue in 2020 that Davis had been his “backdrop for learning,” and the brand’s founder died in November 2021, making his Fall/Winter 2022 show his last. Four years on, Kamara is picking up Abloh’s record collection, not just his logo.
The sound was as deliberate as the clothes. Kamara brought in the singer-producer tendai, a Canning Town musician who blends jazz, rock, soul and R&B, to write an original score. He had five days at London’s Church Studios, working alongside Kamara, Fabriana Pallidino and Morell Maison.
“It was freeform,” tendai told Clash. He said the room was full of instruments, and the group talked through themes before they “began to paint.” The theme he settled on was “concepts of dystopia,” and the music leaned that way.
He was modest about his part. “The clothing did most of the work,” tendai said. “Our job was to show freedom, power and love through sound.” Davis’s son sat next to him at the show and told him he loved the music.
The score is out now as a five-track EP, Ms. Davis. More from the same week in Paris: Chanel’s construction site and our March style guide.
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