BENCH Fashion Week 2025 Day 2: Menswear Highlights
Day 2 of BFW delivered a mix of preppy staples, floral patterns, reimagined workwear, and other inventive twists on everyday style
By Dayne Aduna
Standout menswear looks from BENCH Fashion Week 2025 Day 2
Day 2 of BENCH Fashion Week carried forward the event’s balance of womenswear and menswear, with menswear in particular offering a fresh take on everyday style. Casual “school prep” influences appeared in varsity jackets, long-sleeved essentials, and neatly layered preppy sweaters, pieces that felt familiar yet refreshed through updated proportions and styling.




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Floral prints emerged as a defining thread, used as steady patterns that affirmed their permanence. Workwear also received a refresh, with rigid structures eased by lighter fabrics and more versatile cuts. Color played an equally pivotal role: some looks explored subtle tonal monochromes, while others burst with vibrant reds and blues that electrified the runway.






Taken together, the menswear of Day 2 signaled a shift in tone rather than the dominance of any single trend. Designers showed that men’s clothing can move between preppy, practical, and playful registers while still maintaining cohesion.
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Day 2 menswear featured school prep-influenced layering through varsity jackets, preppy sweaters, and long-sleeved essentials; floral prints as a defining recurring pattern; refreshed workwear in lighter fabrics; and bold color choices ranging from tonal monochromes to vibrant reds and blues.
The school prep aesthetic at BENCH Fashion Week 2025 Day 2 drew on varsity jackets, layered preppy knitwear, and long-sleeved essentials. The references felt familiar but were updated through revised proportions and contemporary styling, giving a classic wardrobe language a fresh menswear application.
Floral prints emerged across Day 2 collections as a consistent and confident pattern choice rather than an accent or novelty. Their recurrence across multiple looks signaled that florals have moved beyond seasonal trend status into a more permanent fixture of Filipino menswear vocabulary.
Workwear was revisited on Day 2 with lighter fabrics and more versatile cuts softening the category’s traditionally rigid structures. The result was a more wearable, relaxed interpretation of professional dressing that maintained its practical intent while shifting toward everyday flexibility.
Where Day 1 leaned into streetwear energy and bold silhouettes, Day 2 introduced a broader tonal range — moving between preppy, practical, and playful registers. The collections collectively showed Filipino menswear’s capacity to hold multiple aesthetic codes within a single cohesive event.

Dayne Aduna
Dayne Aduna is an Associate Editor at VMAN Southeast Asia, specializing in fashion, grooming, film, television, and contemporary pop culture. With a strong editorial focus on menswear, his work explores how style intersects with shifting cultural movements across Southeast Asia and beyond.
His expertise spans fashion journalism, celebrity profiling, grooming and skincare trends, fragrance, runway reporting, and cultural commentary, with a particular eye for emerging creatives and youth-driven style.
Dayne has written extensively on fashion houses, seasonal trends, designer collections, and the evolving image of the modern Southeast Asian man, bringing both editorial depth and cultural relevance to his coverage.
