Mannequin on the runway on the Bottega Veneta vogue present as a part of Spring/Summer time 2026 Milan Style Week on September 27, 2025, in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD by way of Getty Photos)
Louise Trotter’s arrival at Bottega Veneta was all the time going to be a defining second of this yr, not to mention Milan Style Week. Introduced earlier this yr as Matthieu Blazy’s successor, her debut assortment coincides with the home’s sixtieth anniversary—a neat symmetry for a model within the midst of great change.
Trotter started, fittingly, initially, revisiting the core of the home’s esteemed leather-based work: Intrecciato. However relatively than treating it as an archive motif to play with, she wove it into the gathering as each metaphor and methodology. Baggage, which grew to become a industrial phenomenon throughout Daniel Lee and Blazy’s eras, had been reconfigured and pared again, that includes bolder constructions that mirrored the hand and coronary heart of the model’s Venetian workshops.
On the runway, tailoring set a positively fashionable tone. Light-weight jackets, slouchy trousers, Nappa trenches, and cotton-lined robes flattered with out discomfort. Designed for each the attention and for motion. Throw within the playful distinction of Italian menswear rigour and the glitzy flutter of feathered fibreglass, and all of it simply sings, very similar to the woven leather-based that has outlined its heritage. Flamboyance and ‘loud luxurious’ may need been anticipated from different homes this season, however at Bottega, the gesture was quieter, with unmistakable luxurious craftsmanship discovered within the particulars.
Equipment carried the Home’s narrative ahead with new propositions, from the elongated Framed Tote to the squashy Artful Basket. felt not a lot constructed as being formed by hand.
The environment was heightened by Steve McQueen’s customized soundtrack, ’66–’76, that spliced the works of Nina Simone and David Bowie into an aural Intrecciato—a sublime metaphor for Trotter’s imaginative and prescient of collaboration and continuity. Throughout a time when males typically lead design groups for womenswear, Trotter’s feminine gaze is sorely wanted.
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