This afternoon (22 September 2026), Prada will open the newest version of Milan Style Week as the style world decamps to the Italian vogue capital from London, after Burberry supplied its remaining act yesterday night (you may learn our picks of the most effective reveals of London Style Week right here). It’ll mark the primary time that Prada is exhibiting on day one – as as to whether this may have an effect on what Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons present on the runway, or certainly the OMA-designed present set, stays to be seen (an in any other case sparse first day leaves the night open for the newest version of Vogue World, which can unfold on the historic procuring arcade Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II).
Elsewhere, it’s a season of consolidation as comparatively new artistic administrators maintain their sophomore runway reveals at a few of Italian vogue’s main homes: amongst them Demna at Gucci, Maria Grazia Chiuri at Fendi, and Meryll Rogge at Marni. And, whereas we await the primary assortment from Dario Vitale at Emporio Armani – the previous Versace designer was named artistic director final week – the model will host a presentation in lieu of a present, with the gathering designed by Silvana Armani and Leo Dell’Orco, head of womenswear and menswear, respectively, on the Armani Group. Exterior of vogue – although little question attracting a classy crowd – Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi will launch their assortment for Zara Dwelling.
Learn beneath for all of Wallpaper’s moments to look out for at Milan Style Week S/S 2027.
Prada is now the week’s opening act – and is opening Prada Galleria
Prada’s A/W 2026 womenswear present. This season, the home will open Milan Style Week
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Prada, which usually reveals on the Thursday afternoon of Milan Style Week, shall be this season’s opening act at 2pm on Tuesday. There may be little phrase as to why the home has chosen to make the transfer, although it allies with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ knack for setting the style agenda. The week may even see the opening of Prada Galleria, an bold extension of its presence in Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the place Mario Prada and his brother Martino Prada (Miuccia Prada’s grandfather and great-uncle) opened their first retailer in 1913. The ‘multi-floor immersion’, as Prada describes, will characteristic eight flooring of retail, hospitality and cultural shows, stretching throughout the 2 sides of the Nineteenth-century procuring arcade via a subterranean passage. Becoming a member of the Prada Donna and Uomo boutiques, Marchesi 1824, and the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada via new non-public and invitation-only flooring, the Galleria may even characteristic a everlasting exhibition, Pradasphere, on its piano nobile, which traces the home’s historical past from 1913 to the current day.
Emporio Armani will present through presentation because it awaits new artistic director Dario Vitale
Dario Vitale, the brand new artistic director of Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani Equipment. As we await his first assortment, Emporio Armani will maintain a presentation as a substitute of the same old present
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Final week, the Armani Group introduced the appointment of Dario Vitale – finest recognized for a brief however impactful stint at Versace, having spent a lot of his profession behind-the-scenes at Miu Miu – because the Emporio Armani artistic director; he may even head up Giorgio Armani equipment. Silvana Armani, Mr Armani’s niece and head of womenswear design, and Leo Dell’Orco, head of menswear design of the Armani Group, mentioned that they selected him as they felt he might interpret Emporio Armani’s spirit of ‘freedom, experimentation and power’ with ‘respect and authority’. This season, although, Silvana Armani and Dell’Orco will stay on the helm, exhibiting a males’s and girls’s Emporio Armani assortment through presentation on the night of 24 September 2026.
It’s the season of the sophomore runway present
Demna’s A/W 2026 runway present. He’ll maintain his sophomore present for the home this season
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If final season in Milan noticed debuts from Meryll Rogge at Marni, Maria Grazia Chiuri at Fendi and Demna at Gucci (the final had proven through quick movie the season prior, however A/W 2026 marked his first runway outing), this September would be the season of the sophomore act – a considerably trickier proposition as designers search to hone their imaginative and prescient and construct on their opening assortment’s hype. Count on a no-doubt blockbuster outing from Demna at Gucci (final season, he constructed a monolithic marble ‘museum’, evocative of the Uffizi Gallery), whereas Rogge and Chiuri each held extra understated opening acts: the previous created a collection of ‘dioramas of on a regular basis life’ alongside Formafantasma for her first present, whereas Chiuri stripped again the huge exhibition house in Fendi’s Milan HQ for a present of pragmatic glamour, which ran with the tagline ‘much less I, extra us’ (it was additionally printed throughout the ground).
Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi will launch their assortment for Zara Dwelling
Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi’s first assortment for Zara Dwelling, which can launch throughout Milan Style Week
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Earlier this month, lauded director Luca Guadagnino and longtime manufacturing designer and architect Stefano Baisi revealed a blockbuster 200-piece assortment for Zara Dwelling. Referred to by the model as an ‘atlas of design’, it brings the pair’s distinctive imaginative and prescient – Guadagnino’s eye for fascinating interiors has been an indicator of his profession – to furnishings, scents, lighting and furnishings, in addition to a handful of clothes. Guadagnino’s shut hyperlinks with the style world (Dior designer Jonathan Anderson has collaborated with him quite a few instances on the costumes for his movies) make Style Week in Milan – a metropolis he’s additionally synonymous with – the proper event to launch the gathering with a no-doubt star-studded celebration. ‘I believe we actually wished to do one thing that we felt might communicate the language we wished to talk, which was a language of kind and color,’ says Guadagnino of the gathering, which turns into obtainable on 26 September 2026.
READ: Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi unveil a blockbuster life-style assortment for Zara Dwelling
Italian greatest names are again
Bottega Veneta A/W 2026. The home is one in all a number of main Italian vogue homes to return to Milan Style Week
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Rounding out the schedule is the same old line-up of names which have lengthy outlined Italian model, amongst them Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Tod’s, Max Mara, Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander and Ferragamo, in addition to shows from the likes of Brunello Cucinelli, Brioni, Herno and Valextra. This season, in line with Digicam Nazionale della Moda Italiana – the week’s organising physique – there shall be 54 bodily reveals and 88 shows in whole, unfold throughout the schedule.
