Hans Ulrich Obricht has been part of Stone Island’s Community as a Form of Research project since the beginning. The Swiss art curator's 100 questions are posed to everyone in Stoney’s community-led campaigns, from heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk to film director Spike Lee to Stone Island president Carlo Rivetti. Next to take the hot seat? Ulrich Obricht himself.

Shared exclusively with Highsnobiety, Stone Island’s Spring/Summer 2026 campaign sees Hans Ulrich Obrist answering his own questions. However, as always, that's just the start.

The fifth season of Stone Island Community as a Form of Research quietly kicked off at the end of last year, featuring British musicians Joe James and Mike Skinner of The Streets.

But those were the appetizers before the main course, the latter being Italian footballing royalty Paolo Maldini, Ecuadorian UFC fighter Chito Vera, the artist and furniture designer Garance Vallée, and specialist speaker maker Shivas Howard Brown, who produced the thumping hi-fi systems for Stone Island’s recent listening events. 

Hans Ulrich Obrist joins the cast later this season along with South Korean actor Cha Seung-won and producer A. G. Cook.

But even in this early stage, Stone Island's latest community project balances a stacked selection of high-profile names and insider-y creatives, a trick Stone Island has skilfully nailed throughout the series. And the new clothes are equally impressive.

Summer seasons won't stop Stone Island from producing weatherproof jackets imbued with technical fabric mastery. After all, that is the Italian brand's specialty.

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The texture of fine-grained natural cowhide leather is amplified through wax applied in large rotating drums, defining a loose-fitting jacket worn by Chito Vera, while Paolo Maldini’s monochromatic field jacket is made from linen bonded with lightweight nylon jersey for added structure. 

And in case SS26 doesn’t fill your Stone Island outerwear cravings, 100 new differently colored cotton chenille Stone Island jackets, produced through a unique three-dimensional lamination process, were unveiled only a few days ago at Milan Fashion Week.

Which means that in only a single week, pioneering Italian clothing label Stone Island left its mark on Italian fashion’s biggest week while unveiling a campaign with Italian football’s greatest-ever defender.

For Stone Island's many fanatics, this week has been, as the locals say, fantastico.

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