Bottega Veneta: Ready-To-Wear SS26
It was as self-assured a debut as you could get. With functional softness as her guiding principle Louise Trotter’s first Bottega Veneta collection married awe-inspiring artisanship with an utterly modern silhouette.
Dolce & Gabbana: Ready-To-Wear SS26
For SS26, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had a flex that no-one could compete with. A Hollywood blockbuster was filming on their front row. Miranda Priestly is in the building and she’s wearing Dolce.
Ferrari: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Inside the crisp, white space of the Officina – “a futuristic laboratory where the absence of distraction directs all attention to the making” –, Ferrari’s SS26 show unfolded with clarity and control.
Sportmax: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Set inside Milan’s Frigoriferi Milanesi – once a space for preservation, now reimagined – Sportmax’s SS26 show offered a clear-eyed take on softness and structure.
Moschino: Ready-To-Wear SS26
It seems being drilled in school to reduce, reuse, recycle hasn’t been lost on Adrian Appiolaza.
Emporio Armani: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Fluid, soft, light, relaxed. All the codes of Emporio Armani were here youthful, sporty, bohemian, and all so poignant.
Brunello Cucinelli: Ready-To-Wear SS26
In Milan, Brunello Cucinelli reminded us that luxury doesn’t need to shout to be heard. For SS26, the house turned to the elements – Earth, Air, Water, Fire – weaving a collection that felt at once grounding and transcendental.
Prada: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Prada SS26 took familiar pieces and made them strange.
No. 21: Ready-To-Wear SS26
In a warehouse-like building in Milan, No. 21’s SS26 collection, titled Layering All About Lightness, burst onto the scene soundtracked by a remix of Charli xcx’s Everything is Romantic.
Max Mara: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Let other designers channel Marie Antoinette. Max Mara’s Ian Griffiths focused on an alternative 18th century icon for SS26, the ultimate self-made woman Madam Pompadour.
Knwls: Ready-To-Wear SS26
It was Knwls yes, but not the Knwls you know. It was Knwls through the lens of Nike.
Fendi: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Silvia Venturini Fendi used colour magic at Fendi.
Onitsuka Tiger: Ready-To-Wear SS26
The Onitsuka Tiger SS26 show delivered a confident mash-up of nostalgia and experimentation, transforming familiar school-day codes into something distinctly modern.
Jil Sander: Ready-To-Wear SS26
There was something quietly electric in the air at Jil Sander’s Milan HQ – or maybe that was just Simone Bellotti’s debut, a colour-coded SS26 collection murmuring down the runway.
Gucci: Ready-To-Wear SS26
For a soft launch, the new Demna era at Gucci hits pretty hard.