Twice a year, Esquire publishes its Big Black Book, which is a manual on great style and luxuries worth the splurge. Today, we unveiled our Spring/Summer ’26 edition, and it’s packed with effortlessly cool clothes, beautiful watches, colognes, luggage, a profile of Bulgari’s creative director of watches, a look inside the offices of five creative guys, and more. It’s a feast! I hope you enjoy it.
—Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief
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Skimping on style just because it’s hot outside? Perish the thought.
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Big Black Book, Esquire’s biannual guide to living well, dressing better, and making it all look easy. For spring/summer 2026, we’re embracing the good life: clothes that breathe and move, watches that are built to impress, fragrances that do the talking, offices that inspire you to work, and more. The heat may be fleeting; good taste isn’t. Consider this your no-sweat manual for a season done right.
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What does summer smell like? We’re not talking about sunbaked asphalt or sweat mixed with sunscreen. No, we mean the good stuff. Citrus peel and salty coastal air. Ice-cold mojitos and clean linen. Fresh-cut grass and a forest trail. In other words, all the things you’ll find in the colognes that are perfectly suited to the warmer days ahead.
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We’ve never had more options when it comes to where and how we get things done. Through both better tech and shifting expectations about physical locations (not to mention the pandemic), the working landscape has been transformed in the past decade.
But the office is not dead. Creative professionals still need spaces to create and make their own. It’s just that those spaces no longer conform to the cookie-cutter mold they once did. To get a better idea of what work actually looks like these days, we reached out to five men from varying fields and asked them to let us step into their offices. Here’s what they had to show us, plus a few words of wisdom they offered along the way.
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