Dents Buckingham gloves capture equestrian elegance in Man About Town

An equestrian mood moves through Man About Town’s Autumn/Winter 2026 editorial, and at its elegant centre sits a pair of Dents Buckingham gloves, worn with the kind of assured ease that only genuine heritage can bestow. The photograph captures a moment where sporting tradition and contemporary style converge, the gloves’ supple leather and refined tailoring speaking to a lineage of British craftsmanship that has endured since the house’s founding in 1777.

The Buckingham style itself carries the weight of that history. These are gloves conceived not as mere accessories but as essential elements of a considered wardrobe, their construction reflecting decades of knowledge about the precise relationship between hand, leather and movement. In the editorial context, styled by Luke Jefferson Day, they become something more: a quiet assertion of quality in an image otherwise defined by boldness and editorial vision. Against the shoot’s striking visual language, they ground the composition in something real and tangible, the sort of authentic luxury that whispers rather than announces itself.

What makes this particular pairing resonant is the natural alignment between the equestrian aesthetic that shapes Man About Town’s narrative and Dents’ own heritage in riding gloves and country craft. The leather house has long understood the demands placed upon gloves by those who live active, refined lives; the Buckingham carries that knowledge into contemporary dress, translating sporting practicality into everyday elegance. The model wears them as one would wear any cherished object that has earned its place in one’s life through sheer dependability and grace.

James Anastasiades’ photography holds the image with a clarity that allows such details to register properly. Mike W. Morton’s art direction, alongside the styling precision of Luke Jefferson Day and his assistant Zac Sunman, creates a visual language where the gloves sit naturally within a larger composition, neither subordinate to the whole nor demanding artificial emphasis. This is editorial work of genuine sophistication, and within it, the Buckingham gloves assert themselves as what they truly are: the kind of foundational luxury object that stylists and photographers alike understand instinctively.

The Autumn/Winter 2026 issue of Man About Town is available now.

Imagery courtesy of Dents (@dentsgloves).