Stone Island Revives NO SEASONS: One Jacket, Six Fabrics, All in Piombo Grey

Stone Island has brought back NO SEASONS, the outerwear project founder Massimo Osti started in 1989. The original ran from 1989 to 1994, and Highsnobiety describes the new release as the first NO SEASONS collection since then. The premise is unchanged: good outerwear should outlast whatever happens to be in fashion.

The new chapter takes one jacket silhouette and makes it in six fabrications: Tela Resinata, Nylon Prismatico-TC, Raso Gommato, David-TC, Crinkle Reps NY and Panno. The pattern is the same throughout, but each material brings its own texture, weight and surface behavior. Highsnobiety notes that the range runs from pressure-dyed polyester to glossy coated nylon, each piece shaped by a long history of experimentation.

All six are dyed in piombo, a lead grey. Speaking to Highsnobiety, the Stone Island design team said the point of using one color was to focus attention on the garment's details and on each material. Black was their first thought as the most iconic choice, but they concluded that piombo would better show how differently each fabric absorbs dye. The finished jackets are therefore not an identical grey; the dyeing process specific to each material produces a slightly different result. Footwear Magazine reads the single-color edit as a deliberate editorial move that pushes the eye toward construction and material behavior, in keeping with the idea that the fabric is the design.

The collection was shown at Milan Design Week 2026, in an installation at Capsule Plaza that ran April 20 to 26. The space was a disused swimming pool, produced with the Milan interior studio NM3, with a suspended LED wall serving as a technological ceiling above the empty pool. The setup played industrial history against forward-looking material research.

Asked why now, the design team pointed to the modernity of Osti's approach. They wanted to refer to what he had already developed while working with current material evolutions, continuing a conversation between convention and experimentation at the core of the brand.

For Japanese readers who follow the label for its textile work, this is a look at the brand returning to the thinking of its early years with today's dyeing and fabric techniques.

(Details are drawn from points that agree across reports by Footwear Magazine, Highsnobiety.)