s new pre-fall lookbook has dozens and dozens of outfits in it, and I swear I’ve seen most of them before—specifically, in the elevators at Condé Nast circa the late ’90s. I was an editorial assistant then, largely dressed in , and whatever I’d managed to procure at the Barneys Warehouse sale, riding upstairs alongside Vogue editors in immaculate little knits, tailored trousers, and Manolo pumps, discreetly taking mental notes. The whole thing was very Carolyn Bessette before “Carolyn Bessette-coded” was something anyone could say. What I like most about Massimo Dutti’s version is how little fashion it seems to require. The styling is almost aggressively simple: a (it’s so good!) over a , a long lean skirt with a tucked-out shirt, dark-wash jeans with (I recently got the ). Mostly things we already own, rearranged into proportions that suddenly look fresh again. There are, however, a few new-ish pieces doing some heavy lifting: the (also , , and ), the (), the return of , plus , that make the old basics feel very fall 2026. I’m taking the new lineup less as a shopping list than a cheat sheet. In fact, I’ve already started reverse-engineering some of my favorite outfits—with (also “”), this (to wear with jeans, skirt, etc), this single-breasted blazer (on sale), this buttoned top (I used to wear some version of this everyday in my 20s!), this perfectly-proportioned , and this in every color!