Scene setting: How to compete with the most talked about social media moment of last season, when Jennifer Lopez broke the internet for the second time sporting a new version of the tropical print dress she wore to the Grammy Awards in 1999 (which triggered the invention of Google Image search). Turn the voyeuristic concept of a runway show on its head, and make its style conscious guests stare at themselves instead. As they entered the brand’s cavernous show venue, narrow tiers of seating faced a reflective live screen. As the style conscious set sat waiting for the show to begin, staring at their own reflections, the screen began hallucinogenically distorting, with front rowers’ heads and bodies bulging, contorting and merging into each other. Signalling the start of the show, Donatella Versace’s face appeared in tessellated form, performing a variety of pouts and poses, reflecting the brands all attention grabbing aesthetic.
Mood board: The show combined men’s and womenswear for the first time, ranging from seductive tailoring to colourful sportswear, incorporating seventies swag – hot pink suiting, denim and leather patchwork, tropical and zebra prints – and a series of astonishingly sexy micro mini dresses in silver and neon chainmail, sported by Bella Hadid and Kendal Jenner, naturally.
Finishing touches: Prepare for vertiginous platforms, as Versace scaled up A/W 2020’s penchant for the lug sole boot (see Prada and Loro Piana) with sky high stacked boots. The multi piece bag, a hybrid style with clippable pouches, is still here to stay (also seen in a new bag cross body style at Bulgari with an attachable clutch), and at Versace this was echoed in a shoulder bag with a circular coin purse swinging from its strap.
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Mondrian makes waves at Burleigh Heads with a striking Australian debutMondrian Gold Coast emerges as a sculptural new anchor for Burleigh Heads, pairing surf-side glamour with global polish
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Introducing the design-led Split Watches, a force for goodGood design is given a charitable spin by Split Watches – for every one sold, the company donates an hour of therapy
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Meet the New York-based artists destabilising the boundaries of societyA new show in London presents seven young New York-based artists who are pushing against the borders between refined aesthetics and primal materiality
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The collections you might have missed this S/S 2026 menswear seasonBetween the headliners in Paris, Milan and Florence, a few off-schedule displays are deserving of honourable mention – from Martine Rose’s sexually-charged portrait of Kensington Market to Sander Lak’s appointment-only namesake debut
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Let there be light: a closer look at Prada’s stripped-back S/S 2026 show set‘This is the first time the Fondazione is completely bare, with the light coming in,’ said Raf Simons backstage at Prada’s ‘light, fresh, colourful’ and ‘human’ S/S 2026 men’s show in Milan
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The standout shows of Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: Prada to DunhillWallpaper* picks the very best of Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026, from Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ ‘light, fresh’ and ‘human’ display to Dunhill’s exploration of English dress codes
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Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: live updates from the Wallpaper* teamFrom 20-23 June, Milan Fashion Week Men’s arrives in the Italian fashion capital. Follow along for a first look at the shows, presentations and other fashion happenings, as seen by the Wallpaper* editors
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With an ode to Italy, Homme Plissé Issey Miyake brings its brand of fashion magic to Florence’s Pitti UomoMarking the start of a new nomadic way of showing for the Japanese label, Homme Plissé Issey Miyake held its S/S 2026 show at Florence’s Villa Medicea della Petraia as part of Pitti Uomo last night (18 June) with a collection inspired by the colours and textures of Italy
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What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to at Men’s Fashion Week S/S 2026As Men’s Fashion Week S/S 2026 begins in Florence, the Wallpaper* style team select the moments they will be looking out for – from Jonathan Anderson’s anticipated Dior debut to outings from Wales Bonner, Kiko Kostadinov and Prada
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50 years of Santoni, the footwear brand steeped in Italian craft, celebrated in a new bookInside ‘Santoni Meraviglia’, a richly illustrated new tome published by Assouline that tells the story behind the Italian brand’s meticulously crafted footwear
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‘The White Lotus’ meets La Dolce Vita: inside Mytheresa and Dolce & Gabbana’s Taormina takeoverWallpaper* travels to Taormina, Sicily, where a two-day celebration of the latest Dolce & Gabbana x Mytheresa collaboration centred around San Domenico Palace, A Four Seasons Hotel – the filming location of ‘The White Lotus’ season two
