DUKE + DEXTER and Cole Buxton Chase Ibiza’s Golden Hour for a Second Sun-Bleached Reunion

Two British staples return to the White Isle for SS26, trading smartphones for sun-faded denim, foldable loafers, and a “London Drape” flannel suit.

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• Two Brands, One Island: The Return of “The Last Temptation”
• The Brands Behind the Capsule
• Shot on 35mm: Inside the Campaign
• Tailoring and Outerwear Standouts
• Footwear Focus: Loafers, Skate Sneakers, and Handmade Craft
• Sportswear, Headwear, and Everyday Layers
• Avail

British footwear label DUKE + DEXTER and London sportswear brand Cole Buxton have reunited for a second limited-edition capsule, this time built entirely around Ibiza’s golden era. Titled “The Last Temptation: Part II,” the SS26 collection follows the pair’s first collaborative outing and leans into a nostalgic vision of the White Isle: 90s beach clubs, Café del Mar at sunset, and the after-hours pull of Amnesia until sunrise. The fifteen-piece capsule takes its cues from Ibiza’s golden era, evoking 90s White Isle, Café del Mar at sunset, and Amnesia until sunrise.

The premise driving the collection is deliberately analogue. Rather than leaning on the usual collaboration formula of logo mashups and product drops, DUKE + DEXTER and Cole Buxton have built the capsule around an idea of connection that predates the smartphone — a holiday mood defined by heat, film grain, and unrecorded moments rather than content. That framing runs through both the product design and the accompanying campaign, which was shot entirely on the island rather than staged in a studio.

It marks the second time the two brands have worked together under the “Last Temptation” name, following an earlier collaboration that first paired DUKE + DEXTER’s handmade footwear with Cole Buxton’s stripped-back, Ivy-League-inflected sportswear. Where the debut drop kept things relatively close to each brand’s existing catalogue, Part II pushes both labels further outside their usual lanes — DUKE + DEXTER into full tailoring, and Cole Buxton into resort-driven silhouettes it rarely touches.

 

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DUKE + DEXTER was founded in London in 2015 by Archie Hewlett, who started the label with a modest initial outlay and a fondness for vintage slipper silhouettes rather than any formal design background. The brand’s origin story has since become something of a fixture in British menswear press: an accidental founder who began selling velvet loafers online, picked up early distribution through Liberty London, and watched the label take off after Eddie Redmayne wore a pair of D+D loafers to collect his Best Actor Oscar in 2015. That moment helped cement the brand’s reputation among a wider circle of well-known wearers, and DUKE + DEXTER now ships to more than 120 countries, with every pair still stamped “Handmade in England” and produced out of a family-run workshop in Sheffield. Past collaborations have run from Playboy’s archival cover art to Snoop Dogg and motorsport tie-ins, but the loafer — and the handmade construction behind it — has remained the brand’s throughline.

Cole Buxton has followed a different but complementary trajectory. Founded by Cole Buxton alongside creative partner Jonny Wilson, the London label built its early following directly on Instagram before formal retail partnerships followed, a path the brand has described as growing from being seen as “just” a social-media label into a recognised name in contemporary British sportswear. In an interview with END. marking one of its first major retail tie-ups, the pair described the brand’s founding ethos as one of essentialism: collections built on quality and restraint rather than heavy branding, drawing on vintage athletic wear and Ivy League sporting references rather than overt logos. That minimalist, quality-first sensibility is precisely what makes the label’s pairing with DUKE + DEXTER’s more play, collector-driven footwear catalogue an unusual but effective fit — heritage-grade construction on one side, pared-back sportswear design on the other, both filtered through Ibiza’s specific strain of 90s nostalgia for Part II.

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The Part II campaign was captured on 35mm film on location in Ibiza, a choice that reinforces the collection’s central conceit. The campaign was captured on 35mm film on the White Isle, evoking a pre-smartphone era freedom that no longer exists, shot the way a good holiday gets remembered. Imagery includes the collaboration’s trucker cap resting on a garden statue as though it has always belonged there, and a pair of suede loafers photographed on the rocks as the sky turns at Es Vedrà, the small rocky islet off Ibiza’s southwestern coast long associated with the island’s mythology and its reputation as one of the Mediterranean’s most photographed sunset points.

Collection pieces were shot on Jacques Saayman, a friend of the DUKE + DEXTER family, who looks entirely at home in the Ibiza sunshine. The result is less a conventional lookbook than a set of holiday snapshots — sun-faded, slightly overexposed, and deliberately unpolished in a way that mirrors the richly textured, worn-in finish applied across the garments themselves. That analogue treatment extends to the product photography too, with the capsule’s tees, denim, and swimwear all styled with the kind of sun-bleached texture that suggests they have already spent a summer being worn hard, rather than sitting fresh on a shelf.

Relaxed summer styling featuring a lightweight plaid shirt, tailored shorts, and suede loafers photographed against a dramatic Mediterranean sunset.

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Where the first “Last Temptation” collaboration stayed close to casualwear, Part II pushes further into tailoring and outerwear. The headline piece is the Dexter Suit, cut in England from a dark grey wool-flannel. The suit is shaped with a relaxed “London Drape” silhouette, positioning it as one of the collection’s more elevated standouts. Pairing British tailoring conventions with the loose, sun-bleached mood of the rest of the range, the suit is designed to sit comfortably alongside the capsule’s beachwear rather than reading as a separate, formalwear-only piece. The “drape” construction it borrows from is a long-standing British tailoring technique built around extra fullness across the chest and shoulders, traditionally used to create a softer, more forgiving line than a close-fitted continental cut — a natural reference point for a suit meant to move easily between an Ibiza terrace and a return flight home.

Outerwear is anchored by the CB Emblem Trucker Jacket in “Blue,” a piece styled with an off-duty, Jacob Elordi-inflected sensibility that leans into the trucker silhouette’s workwear roots while keeping the fit relaxed enough for Ibiza heat. The trucker jacket format itself has long served as a blank canvas for this kind of collaboration — sturdy enough to carry embroidered branding, casual enough to layer over t-shirts or open over swimwear — and the “Blue” colourway keeps things close to a classic denim-adjacent tone rather than pushing into anything more experimental. Elsewhere, layering options include a relaxed-fit Henley top and the deliberately faded CB Dappled Check Blue Shirt, both designed to slot into the same sun-worn palette as the rest of the capsule.

The hero piece for many will be the CB Last Temptation White Zipped Hoodie. Cut from 500GSM 100% cotton brushed American fleece in Cole Buxton’s signature shrunken fit, the hoodie carries exclusive collaborative artwork embroidered in red and finishes with a two-way CB-branded zip. It is built, in the brand’s own words, as a statement piece rooted in nostalgia and designed for everyday wear — language that echoes the collection’s broader pitch toward long-term rewear over disposable collaboration merch. The heavyweight fleece and shrunken cut are consistent with Cole Buxton’s existing hoodie construction, which has become one of the brand’s most recognisable signatures since it first built an audience on Instagram; using that established silhouette as the base for the collaboration’s hero piece keeps the hoodie recognisably “Cole Buxton” even with DUKE + DEXTER’s name attached.

Cream canvas sneakers showcased poolside on a blue slide, blending laid-back summer style with sun-soaked resort aesthetics.

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Footwear remains the connective thread between the two brands, and Part II leans on DUKE + DEXTER’s handmade-in-England construction to ground the collection’s more experimental pieces. The CB Foldable Ruched Loafer, offered in a black leather colourway as well as brown suede, is positioned as one of the collection’s most adaptable pieces, built around a collapsible, travel-friendly construction that nods to Ibiza’s poolside-to-terrace dress code. Both the Foldable Ruched Loafer and the CB Vintage White Skate Sneaker are handmade in England, continuing DUKE + DEXTER’s core positioning as a footwear house built on traditional shoemaking rather than mass production.

That construction story is central to how DUKE + DEXTER has built its reputation over the past decade. Founded in 2015 by Archie Hewlett, the brand grew out of a fascination with vintage slipper silhouettes rather than a formal fashion background, and it has stuck closely to loafers and slip-ons as its signature category even as its catalogue has expanded into sneakers and boots. Every pair is still designed in London and produced by hand in a family-run Sheffield workshop, with a “Handmade in England” stamp debossed onto the sole as a mark of that process — a detail that carries over into the ruched loafer’s foldable construction here, where the collapsible build has to be engineered around the same hand-finishing rather than simplified for mass production.

The skate sneaker leans further into the collection’s 90s reference points, offered in a vintage-toned white finish designed to look already lived-in. Alongside the tailoring and outerwear pieces, the footwear is where the collaboration’s two identities — DUKE + DEXTER’s craft-driven shoemaking and Cole Buxton’s minimalist sportswear language — meet most directly, with co-signed detailing kept deliberately understated rather than logo-heavy. That restraint marks a shift from some of DUKE + DEXTER’s more maximalist past collaborations, including archival print-driven partnerships with Playboy, in favour of a quieter, texture-first approach better suited to Cole Buxton’s aesthetic.

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The rest of the fifteen-piece capsule fills out around the standout pieces with a run of beach-ready basics. Satin track pants and matching shorts bring Cole Buxton’s sportswear language into a warm-weather register, positioned as simple, low-effort layers for the height of summer. Vintage-washed graphic t-shirts and swim shorts carry the collection’s sun-faded finish, while distressed denim cut-offs push the 90s reference point further into overtly worn-in territory. That worn-in, satin-and-cotton combination sits close to Cole Buxton’s established design vocabulary of retrofuturist sportswear pieces built around vintage athletic-wear references rather than technical fabrication, giving the summer-specific pieces here a sense of continuity with the label’s core line rather than feeling like a one-off resort detour.

Headwear comes via the CB Eivissa trucker cap — a direct nod to Ibiza’s Spanish name — which sits among the collection’s light layers and standout accessories. A classic check shirt rounds out the layering pieces, carrying co-signed graphics that keep the branding subtle rather than dominant. Across the range, the emphasis stays on pieces that read as considered, textural basics rather than obvious collide merchandise, in keeping with the essentialist design philosophy Cole Buxton has built its name on since its earliest Instagram-led collections, and with DUKE + DEXTER’s own preference for craft over hype when choosing collaborators.