Versace returns to its roots with a bold, sensory exploration of the House’s archive — revealing not just garments, but a way of being. Unfolding within the intimate setting of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the Spring/Summer 26 collection connects with the emotional and tactile essence of Versace: provocative, elegant, and unapologetically sensual.
Letters, photographs, and artistic ephemera become touchpoints for an identity that has always existed between body and mind, classicism and rebellion.
The Versace presentation bridges iconic heritage with a distinctly modern attitude, where refinement meets instinct and sensuality flows through every detail. Archival codes — tailoring, denim, printed shirting, leather, and lingerie — are reimagined with a lived-in ease and layered complexity. Striped denim in sun-faded tones, patched leather blousons, mixed-metal dresses, and vivid, House-rooted prints reflect a Mediterranean vibrancy and a streetwise sensibility. Beading and sculptural draping speak to indulgent glamour, while silhouettes are styled to suggest movement, intimacy, and unspoken desire.
At its core, the collection speaks to Versace’s enduring identity: carnal, cultured, and always free. More than just fashion — a language of expression; an invitation to live without restraint. For Versace, sensuality is not a statement, but the foundation.
Classicism clashed with a streetwise sensibility, layering denim, leather, metal and silk, invoking a definitively Italian precision. Patched leather blousons. Sweaters over shirts over plain white tees. Striped denim jeans.
This is a collection that carries the Versace DNA yet emanates distinctive individuality.