It may have been the Winter Olympics that have dominated news of Milan over the last few weeks, but now it’s the return of Milan Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2026 that has everyone talking.

The Italian fashion capital is always an exciting one on the fashion calendar, but with the debut of Maria Grazia Chiuri at Fendi, plus Demna’s first physical show at Gucci, this may just be one of the most highly-anticipated yet. We’ll also see second collections from Simone Bellotti at Jil Sander, David Koma at Blumarine, and Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta. As well as Milan Fashion Week favourites such as Prada, Max Mara, Diesel, Missoni, Giorgio Armani, and Roberto Cavalli.

Read on for all of the highlights of the Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2026 season, and if you need to catch up on past fashion week coverage, you can read more fashion week coverage here.

Giorgio Armani

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The Giorgio Armani collection for Fall/Winter 2026 presented during Milan Fashion Week explores a new perspective of Armani style. It is fluid, enveloping and perfectly imperfect. Silhouettes are soft yet defined, constructed yet released. The collection is grounded in tactile fabrics of flannel, cashmere, crêpe and velvet. Jackets are unpadded while coats and blouses wrap the body. Trousers drape with a masculine attitude and knitwear is styled to reveal the shirts beneath. For the colour palette, shades of grey, sage and blue unfold, illuminated by white, while burgundy guides garments into eveningwear.

Bottega Veneta

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After an incredible debut show at Bottega Veneta in September, all eyes were on Louise Trotter to see if she could make it two for two. And as if there were any doubt, she did. The collection was dedicated to ‘the wondrous collaboration between the heart, the mind, and the hand.’ The show opened with quieter looks with precise lines and neutral tones, before giving way to loud flamboyance. Luxurious, maximalist coats made from fibreglass were a highlight of the collection. But even the less showy, grey tailored coats at the start of the collection were exceptional. The brand’s iconic intrecciato weave was seen not only on bags but also on collars and belts.

Dolce & Gabbana

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Dolce & Gabbana reaffirmed the brand’s identity for the Fall-Winter 2026 collection. Though exploring the archive is not about nostalgia, it is about the brand’s language that is still very much alive. It is a line filled with house classics of black, lace, and tailoring. A vision where femininity and masculinity are in constant dialogue. Where the body is not hidden but affirmed. Tailoring followed the brand’s signature hourglass silhouette, while lace dresses were more delicate than ever before. The collection was sensual, glamorous, and stayed true to the brand’s devotion to craftsmanship.

Moschino

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The Fall/Winter 2026 Moschino collection by Creative Director Adrian Appiolaza is an homage to his childhood home, Argentina. There is a child-like exaggeration to silhouettes, creating characters from well-dressed bourgeois ladies and soccer-obsessed teenagers to tango dancers and countrymen and countrywomen, tango dancers. Iconic Argentine landmarks and icons serve as muses – the Obelisco de Buenos Aires and the heroic gauchos of the Pampas. Evita, a beloved emblem of Argentina, is seen throughout the collection in sharply-tailored dresses. While knitted llamas leap from knitwear and the elaborate swirls of Fileteado Porteño adorn dresses.  

GCDS

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The latest collection for GCDS, titled ‘What’s in My Bag?’, marks the tenth anniversary of the brand. The show blurs the lines between fashion, performance, and pop culture. Taking the brand’s most beloved house codes, from exaggerated glamour to cartoonish prints, to remind us that fashion doesn’t have to be demure to be grown-up.

Models emerged from oversized GCDS shopping bags. College-inspired silhouettes, such as varsity and track jackets, paired with denim and pleated skirts, serve as a reference to GCDS’ early days. Then, animal and python print slink across exaggerated silhouettes in technicolour palettes. Silhouettes are inflated through pannier bodysuits and oversized tailored pieces. Garments are intentionally cut askew, finished, or unfinished, with off-cut seams and imperfections. Polka-dot clashes with lace, and a rotten apple motif emerges as a symbol of the GCDS woman.

Ferrari

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For the Ferrari FW26, Creative Director Rocco Iannone explores a dimension characterized by empathy, connection, and plurality. Inspired by skin, Rocco imagines garments as skins we choose to cover ourselves with. Materials and shapes range from the lightness of undergarments and the draping of underpinnings to the sturdiness of leather and dry wools. Lines follow the body, enhancing it. As you can imagine, the palette consisted largely of nude tones in their many shades, with everything designed to expand the body’s features. The three finale looks consisted of glittering nude gowns that hung on the models like second skins.

Elisabetta Franchi

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Held at the Palazzo Acerbi, the Maison’s symbolic runway setting, Elisabetta Franchi unveiled her latest collection at Milan Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2026. The collection revisits Victoria imagery, stripped of nostalgia and rewritten for the modern day. Silhouettes echo nineteenth-century construction with architectural bodices emerging from wool coats and tailored jackets. While the waist is emphasised through internal corsetry and glossy vinyl bustiers. Blouses and mini dresses unfold in flounces and ruffles, and georgette and tulle skirts explore asymmetry. Blouses open like petals when in motion and are paired with ultra-high-waisted trousers and low-cut slim silhouettes. Black remains at the heart of the collection, and skirts, tops, dresses, and suits are finished with crystal embroideries inspired by pinstripes. Sunglasses are introduced for the first time – not as an accessory but as a detail that reinforces presence, power, and confidence.

Sportmax

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Sportmax Fall Winter 2026 tells a story of dynamism. It is a collection on the move, with shapeshifting garments and convertible looks. Juxtaposition is another key theme with suede shown against leather, detachable contrast collars, and sudden shifts from long to short, matte to shine, and sheer to opaque. A highlight is the mix-and-match gilet, designed with versatility in mind and complete with an oversized, origami collar. Body-skimming knits and jerseys are paired back while other pieces are embellished with hints of sparkle, sexy slashes, contrast trims, and flashes of colour.

Tods

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The Tod’s Women’s Fall–Winter 26/27 pays homage to the great Italian artisanal tradition. Creative Director Matteo Tamburini envisions a wardrobe in which artisanal know-how and the exceptional quality of materials take centre stage. With leather in particular shaping the story and reflecting the synthesis of tradition and modernity.

In ready-to-wear, large volumes often contrast with more fitted pieces, featuring structured shoulders and cinched waists. Trench and peacoats are reinterpreted with couture-inspired tailoring, and a quilted, calfskin bomber completes the wardrobe. The colour palette includes rich tones of burnt caramel, ginger, and chocolate, offset by crisp black and white. While in footwear, Tod’s iconic loafer is presented with a new rounded toe in supple leather or pony.

Gucci

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Fall Winter 26 marked Demna’s first runway show for Gucci, after staging his last collection as a film premiere. The collection establishes new silhouettes, textures, and materials, but ultimately stays true to the design ethos at the core of Gucci. Rigorous product development has allowed for garments and pieces cut as close as possible to the body, a quintessentially Gucci sensibility.

The first look was a seamless minidress in white and accessorised with plenty of attitude. In fact, attitude seemed to be a driving force throughout the collection. Each model strutted and smouldered down the catwalk, no doubt feeling every bit as confident as the clothes made them look. The lineup was pretty star-studded too, with Vittoria Ceretti, Emily Ratajkowski, Alex Consani, Elsa Hosk, Gabbriette, Anok Yai, and Kate Moss walking the show.

Fluid tailoring is cut in liquid-like fabrics in low-cut jackets and trousers with horizontal pockets. Tracksuits and dresses were morphed into trackdresses, while leggings were fused to trousers, and jackets and tops merged together into an ultra-fitted garment. There were clear references to Tom Ford’s era at Gucci with slinky dresses exposing a logoed G-string. While the Gucci monogram was seen on tights, bags, and a knee-length pencil skirt.

CASADEI

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In a world where shoes express forms, volumes, and meanings, the Casadei Fall Winter 2026/2027 collection journeys through both real and imaginary worlds with equal care. “The heel defines an aesthetic,” says Creative Director Cesare Casadei. This is the starting point for boots crafted like evening gowns, sandals with eco-fur anklets and crystal foliage, and high-cut T-bars. Paradoxically, this same inspiration also gives rise to sport-urban boots and double-face puffer styles.

“Shoes represent the creative journeys of my mind. That’s why, for this collection, the starting point was my connection with nature. On a journey, both real and imagined, through the woods, colours took centre stage, materializing in images—the rich soil of the undergrowth, perfect leaves on branches, and the shifting hues of those fallen and torn. These tones and visual sensations imbue the collection’s palette,” explains Cesare Casadei.

The collection features the Berlino boot, a tubular silhouette featuring a leather cuff and slit in the back, reminiscent of an evening gown, before revealing the iconic Blade heel. The Diva sandal features ankle straps and cruelty-free fur accents, while the Mammouth urban-combat boots are raised on a platform sole with lacing.

Roberto Cavalli

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For Fall/Winter 2026–27, Fausto Puglisi chooses black. A radical change from the brand’s signature bold colours and fearless prints. Instead, the collection explores black as a canvas, as depth, as living matter. It is an ode to black as an infinite possibility. An exploration of shadow that generates light.

At the heart of the collection, Fausto Puglisi’s signatures stand out. A-line skirts are structured with crinolines to amplify the silhouette, while gladiator dresses are cut to sculpt the body. Prints are still very much evident throughout the collection. Leather is embossed in python and croc, and silver fox animates silk twill shirt dresses and chiffon slips.

And then, through the darkness, there is a spark of colour. Periwinkle, vibrant pink, and cyclamen enhance the collection, bringing the all-black looks to life.

Max Mara

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During Milan Fashion Week the Max Mara Fall/Winter 2026 show was full of historical references; in particular, Matilde di Canossa, one of the most powerful women in Italian history, serves as a muse. Max Mara redefines modern utilitarianism with a dash of neo-medievalism and Gothic chic, using the brand’s signature colour palette of brown, grey, and burgundy. Hip-hugging cashmere maxi skirts, buttery suede page boy tunics, and ultra-flat thigh boots are collection highlights.

Emporio Armani

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Emporio Armani Fall/ Winter 2026 is the first jointly developed by Silavana Armani and Leo Dell’Orco. Throughout the collection a narrative unfolds in balance between British formality – think tailcoats, waistcoats and caps – and Italian sensibility and urban life. Classic Emporio shapes of trench coats, jackets, suits, long cardigans, knitwear, and shirts are worn over cropped trousers in a new interpretation of tailoring. There is also deep-pleated Bermuda shorts and denim. Tactile materials of tweed, jaspé, leather, shearling and wool/linen blends are used on a colour palette of beige, grey, brown, blue, red and violet.

Prada

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For Prada Fall/Winter 2026, co-Creative Directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented a 60-piece collection on 15 models. “Instead of showing 60 looks on 60 women, this season we wanted to show 15 looks on 15 women. Each look appears 4 times, yet proposed in a different way,” says Raf Simons in the show’s notes. It serves as a reflection of the multifaceted realities of women and the complexities of life. It is a manifestation of how clothes are truly worn in daily life.

Clothing is layered with precision – tailoring, sportswear, embroidered satin dresses – contradictory in nature but yet speak to the language of Prada. The first 15 looks focused on outerwear before later revealing textured knitwear, crumpled shirts, and more coats. The third act consisted largely of midi dresses and sheer pencil skirts revealing the final layer. And finally, a series of translucent slip dresses, boxy crop tops, and crumpled shorts.

Missoni

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The entire collection for Missoni FW26 explores the dialogue between masculine and feminine. Within it, the Missoni woman begins to dress like a man – picking up things from his wardrobe and wearing them as they are, though not without forgoing sinuous, shimmering touches. There are spacious maritime coats, statement-making blousons, shearling jackets, and blazers with sharp, pointed collars. Leather Bermuda shorts are cut wide and voluminous, while midi-length dresses slouch on top before clinging to define the figure. To tie it all together, looks are accessorised with scarves, knitted stoles, pumps, and ankle boots.

The palette revolves around notes of brown, tobacco, ochre, cognac, milk, and blue. While checks and fiammato motifs alternate with vertical stripes. And in true Missoni fashion, there is an amalgamation of patterns and colours, playing on the idea of monochrome polychromy – different notes of the same colour blending together.

Diesel

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The Diesel Fall Winter 2026 Runway Show was a celebration of the Diesel universe. The staging featured around 50,000 pieces of archival Diesel memorabilia, transforming the space into an immersive installation that expresses the brand’s commitment to upcycling in creative expression. This commitment was further reflected throughout the collection, which featured a range of responsibly sourced and recycled materials across denim, ready-to-wear, and bags.

In the show notes, Creative Director Glenn Martens explained that “This collection is about waking up in a place, with no idea what happened last night, and you are the most glorious person ever. When you sneak away from the hotel room of the person who you don’t even know, you are truly at your best. These are super-wearable pieces for successful living.”  This influence was shown through double-layer jersey tops that seemed thrown on despite being held perfectly in place, wrinkled knitwear, and resin-treated denim to make permanent creases as if worn all night long. Jeans are finished with hidden vertical slits perfect for a stiletto heel, and others are fastened by hook-and-eye closures.

Felted tailoring is made from production scraps and industrial leftovers, while intarsia knit has cut-out florals at the neck or hem. Torn long-sleeve Diesel tour T’s and destroyed denim jeans are encrusted with crystals, then overlayed with a ripped-hem tulle top and skirt.