The Designer | Hed Mayner

Polimoda presents The Designer & The Artist, a public lecture series exploring the intersections between fashion, architecture, and contemporary culture. This talk features Hed Mayner, Guest Designer of Pitti Uomo 109, internationally recognized for redefining contemporary menswear through movement, volume, and construction.

Moderated by nss magazine, the lecture is part of a broader dialogue developed in collaboration with Pitti Uomo.

🗓 15 January
🕔 10am
📍 Polimoda, Aula Magna — Manifattura Campus
🎤 Moderated by nss magazine

About the lecture

Hed Mayner approaches fashion as a living form, where garments exist in constant dialogue with the body. His work is defined by generous volumes, fluid fabrics, and precise tailoring that respond to movement rather than constrain it.

Drawing from sacred traditions, military tailoring, and sportswear, Mayner constructs silhouettes that balance rigor and freedom, strength and vulnerability. His garments behave like animated structures — expanding, contracting, and shifting with the wearer.

In this lecture, Pitti Uomo 109’s Guest Designer reflects on the silhouette as a dynamic system, the relationship between body and garment, and how construction and tailoring can become tools for comfort, authenticity, and freedom of expression.

Why attend

• To hear directly from one of the most influential voices in contemporary menswear
• To understand fashion as a dynamic, moving system, not a static object
• To explore how tailoring and construction can enable freedom rather than control
• To gain insight into a practice that redefines masculinity through volume, softness, and restraint
• To engage with a vision of fashion rooted in tradition yet deeply connected to the present

Registration

Free admission: registration required (Seats are limited)

Language: English

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A shared project

Although presented as two separate lectures, The Designer & The Artist functions as a single conceptual project.

Together, the talks trace a common line: form as movement, identity as process, and creation as an unfinished state.

For anyone attending Pitti Uomo, these lectures offer a rare opportunity to step outside the fair and enter a space of thought, research, and critical dialogue — where fashion and art are not products, but questions.

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