Roberto Cavalli continues to sharpen its claw, revealing its most seductive and intriguing feline spirit. Confident, daring, enigmatic, Cavalli’s men take the ring to fight against the rules, in a free- spirited celebration of self-expression. Fausto Puglisi debuts the Roberto Cavalli Spring 2022 menswear collection today with a bombastic film that features Tyson dressed in the collection.

The Spring lineup features leather and chain corsets, animal prints, and fluid silks, as models preen alongside him with aggressive vanitas, charging towards the camera. Puglisi’s Cavalli and Tyson are a pretty perfect match as far as designer-muse pairings go: Tyson is also legendary for his highly individual sense of style.

“Mike Tyson is one of the last living pop icons and beyond being a boxing champion, he is also a stylish man, with a very personal and eccentric taste,” Puglisi said. “But more than the undisputed boxing champion and American icon, his personal story is also a tale of survival, struggle, and resilience. He embodies America in both the American Dream and all the possibilities it holds, but also its reverse.”

Of particular interest in the Spring 2022 experience is the stated decision to revisit the “traditional concept of masculinity,” with the team casting Tyson as the protagonist in the loosely structured story of the campaign.