You could say Todd Snyder is on a hot streak, but at this point the hot streak is running near 15 years. The brand’s been turning out some of the most wearable menswear on the market since it launched in 2011, delivering closet upgrades like clockwork.
Despite an impossibly high level of execution, Todd Snyder stays improving with the same sense of ease and elegance that its clothes exude, constantly expanding the collection and broadening its collaboration horizon season by season.
For those already familiar with the brand, none of this is news. In fact, it’s the attraction: Todd Snyder constantly refines the pieces you love, never cuts corners on fabric or quality, and works in a color palette that manages to be both adventurous and controlled at the very same time. And every so often the brand drops a few pieces that challenge your sense of personal style without crashing the car head-on into fly-by-night fads.
Todd Snyder—the man, the designer, the menswear legend—can do this because he’s been in the game longer than you’ve been using your parent’s Netflix login. He learned from the best, kicking off his career at Ralph Lauren and Gap. As the director of menswear at J.Crew from 2004 to 2011, he brought us the Ludlow Suit, the Secret Wash shirt, and the famous Liquor Bar store in NYC . This is how a virtuoso of effortlessly tasteful menswear is born.
Today, the Todd Snyder universe—the clothes, the stores, the collabs—keeps growing, and yet still packs a prizefighter punch. Whether you’re in the market for wardrobe-elevating staples or a flashy piece for holiday season, you can find it at Todd Snyder. Here’s our breakdown of the brand, including our favorite pieces on the racks right now.
The Todd Snyder Hit List
In This Guide:
Top-Tier Tailoring
When it comes to off-the-rack suiting, Todd Snyder is virtually unbeatable—especially in the under-$1,000 category. By no means and in no world are we calling that “cheap,” but in regards to value propositions, you really won’t find anyone in that range who incorporates the kinds of fabrics (sourced from venerated Italian mills and legendary suppliers), construction elements and tailoring like Todd Snyder does.
Swaggering Polos
Despite an increasingly crowded polo pantheon, Todd Snyder’s polo game—which existed long before the category’s surge in popularity—remains a standard-bearer. The classic Johnny collars are as versatile as ever, the open-knits are just revealing enough, and the linen-imbued selection is as deep as most labels’ entire bench of polo offerings.
Golden-Days Sweats
Todd Snyder has been championing Champion—and designing with it—for more than a decade now, to the point where the partnership has transcended any sort of “collaboration” title at this juncture. Every season, you can count on Todd Snyder to have some of the comfiest, well-made, retro-riffing sweats you can find, down to the archive Champion logos themselves.
Knits You Need
You might not think “August” when someone says “sweater weather,” but a) you should and b) Todd Snyder’s summer knits prove why. Whether it’s a kinda bonkers short-sleeve linen sweater, an oversized cotton V-neck, or a classic cashmere crew, the brand has exactly the pieces you want to throw into your haul-everywhere summer tote.
Right-Now Outerwear
Depending on when you read this you’re either in the midst of—or maybe just escaping—a hot-ass summer. In either case, a lightweight jacket will work in your favor. If it’s still steamy, the Linen Dad Jacket elevates the namesake genre to dizzying heights. If the temp’s finally started to relax, the suede Dylan Trucker will make you feel like a celebrity.
A Plethora of Perfect Pants
Pants are famously difficult, but Todd Snyder makes it easy. They’ve got all the cuts you might want—wide-legs, slim ones, classic straights, funky high-rise waistlines—in sumptuous fabrics, all clearly delineated between. Even better, every pair is built to make an impression that anchors whatever else you decide to layer on around them.
If you didn’t think Todd Snyder was a head-to-toe operation, you were mistaken. It’s in-house offerings—Chelsea Boots, Tyrolean Derbys, crepe-soled Desert Boots and other time-honored staples—are often slept on, but are as well-made and effortless as the rest of the brand’s goods. But real heads also trek to Todd for the carefully curated third-party offerings from brands like Sperry, Asics, and New Balance. In other words, just Todd Snyder’s footwear selection is one of the best shoe stores in the game.
Seriously Good Shirting
No great menswear brand is truly great if it doesn’t have the shirting to match the rest of the catalog. But Todd Snyder’s shirts live up to those standards, and then some. Its smartly-tailored dress shirts are cut from some of the finest fabrics in the world—but the more casual fare, including many seasonal options, also hits in all the right places.
Showstopping Shorts
We’re not going to argue with you shorts deniers, but Todd Snyder’s insane selection should at least make you rethink your aversion to feeling a calf-height breeze. With inseams ranging from 5” to long-as-hell (like, 12”, maybe more—we forgot to bring our yardstick to the store), there’s no coverage preference the brand can’t deliver on. More importantly, its belief in upscale fabrics means that true believers can dabble in elevated shorts when the weather—and dress code—allows for it.
