It’s official: Kenzo’s Carol Lim and Humberto Leon are H&M’s 2016 designer collaborators. Their collection of women’s and men’s ready-to-wear and accessories will arrive in 250 H&M stores around the world and online on November 3 following a mid-October show in an as-yet-undisclosed location.

Lim and Leon follow on the heels of H&M’s wildly successful partnership with Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing. The Backstreet Boys performed at the New York party for that collaboration, and there were reports of riots at a London H&M outpost on the day the clothes went on sale. The Kenzo collab promises to be different. As H&M’s creative advisor, Ann-Sofie Johansson, put it, “Balmain was glamorous and sexy, and this is vibrant, young, and fun.”

The Kenzo designers have collaboration in their blood. Early on at the LVMH-owned brand, they teamed up with Vans, and more recently they created a range of Jungle Book–themed merchandise. And they’ve done too many collabs to count at Opening Ceremony, the little store on New York’s Howard Street that they’ve grown into a global brand since it opened in 2002. “Collaborations provoke conversation, which is exciting,” Leon told Vogue.com.

So what can we expect from the Kenzo collab? H&M will be at CFDA—maybe we’ll get a glimpse of the upcoming collection. But first, Leon, Lim, and Johansson discussed the collaboration exclusively with Vogue.com.

Ann-Sofie, why did you choose Kenzo?

ANN-SOFIE JOHANSSON: We’ve had our eyes on Carol and Humberto at Kenzo for a few years. It seemed right to do the collaboration with them now. It’s totally different than the Balmain one; we really like to pick different designers, to show our customers different aesthetics.

Carol and Humberto, why did the H&M opportunity feel like a good fit for Kenzo?

CAROL LIM: Collaborations are part of our DNA through Opening Ceremony. We’re in company with a great list of people who’ve done [collaborations with H&M], and it felt like a nice platform, to do something in a really big way. It felt like we could make a large impact doing something with them.

HUMBERTO LEON: To us, the H&M collaborations have always felt like celebrations of the brands they’ve done them with. They’ve done them so well. We’re fans of all of them—the Viktor & Rolf, the Margiela. They’re so iconic. What Olivier [from Balmain] did was really fun. And we remember buying when H&M did the first one with Karl Lagerfeld. I still own those pieces.