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From February 22nd to 24th, 2026, Milan hosted the 101st edition of the international footwear fair. It is increasingly global in scope and forward-looking.

Unveiled on the Spring–Summer 2026 catwalk, the Pivot bag embodies a sculptural, sensual vision of Versace luxury, poised between Milanese heritage and confident modernity.

Through Specula Mundi , Valentino Haute Couture 2026 reactivates an old optical device to question, slowly and solemnly, the very conditions of our way of seeing.

For Spring/Summer 2026, Schiaparelli transforms haute couture into a sensory experience, where emotion takes precedence over form and the imagination soars, free and incandescent.

Invisible yet essential, air becomes the raw material of a collection that transforms creative obstinacy into a horizon for the future.

For four days, Paris becomes the stage for a weightless couture, where historic houses and singular voices outline the contours of spring-summer 2026.

In Paris, Matthieu Blazy designed a radically light Spring-Summer 2026 Haute Couture collection for Chanel, where the essence of the house is expressed with grace.