Following the house's centennial celebration in February 2025, Silvia Venturini Fendi unveiled her Spring/Summer 2026 collection against Australian designer Marc Newson's pulsating pixel backdrop&mdash;a digital dreamscape where fashion meets virtual reality, and every step forward feels like a leap into tomorrow's wardrobe.

This was chaos as haute couture&mdash;deliberate, intoxicating, utterly necessary. Psychedelic florals borrowed from the seventies collided with the athletic optimism of nineties activewear, creating a sartorial time machine that felt both nostalgic and prophetic. The runway became a manifesto of color, where each look served as rebellion against fashion's recent obsession with whispered elegance.
The palette unfolded like a fever dream: Yves Klein blue bleeding into cardinal red, chocolate brown melting into vibrant fuchsia. A boxy tee tucked into oversized crimson leather pants&mdash;cinched at the knee for an unexpectedly delicate finish&mdash;proved that power dressing could be both liberating and lyrical. Meanwhile, a blue-gray suit with eighties shoulders was reimagined through pink leather button ties, transforming corporate armor into something decidedly more seductive.

Venturini Fendi's vision transcends traditional boundaries, offering a wardrobe that speaks in whispers and shouts simultaneously. This is not the era of "quiet luxury"&mdash;instead, she presents fashion as celebration. A maroon faux fur coat blooms with embroidered chrysanthemums, while Anok Yai closed the show in a coral-colored sheer dress that sparkled with hand-stitched florals, each petal catching light like captured starlight.
The genius lies in elevation without ostentation. Sports jackets crafted from luxurious faille silk pair with synchronized pencil skirts, refreshing the traditional suit for a generation that refuses to choose between comfort and sophistication. Anoraks and windbreakers appear in perforated leather with laser-precise cuts, transforming utilitarian pieces into objects of desire&mdash;perfectly timed for Milano Cortina 2026.

But perhaps nowhere is Venturini Fendi's mastery more evident than in her reimagining of the Peekaboo bag. "It's a kind of private luxury," she explains, and indeed, these accessories function as intimate theaters of surprise. From a distance, they appear deceptively understated&mdash;neutral leather housing life's essentials. Yet with a simple opening, they reveal their secrets: pink-blue sequins, chartreuse satin linings, pixel sequins hidden beneath soft faux fur.
This duality&mdash;the promise of discretion coupled with the thrill of revelation&mdash;captures something essential about contemporary luxury. In an age of performative consumption, Fendi offers something more precious: the luxury of choice, the power of concealment and disclosure at will.

Since Carrie Bradshaw made Fendi sparkly bags the ultimate identity statement in Sex and the City, the house's "It bag formula" has remained remarkably consistent. Yet this collection pushes beyond formula into pure feeling. The new Collier bag appears alongside 3D sequin florals and sleek cable-knit silk weaves, each iteration a different answer to the same question: How does luxury adapt to a world in constant motion?
The florals throughout the collection pulse with life&mdash;not merely decorative, but breathing. Oversized blooms cascade across strappy jackets, while pop art-inspired cutout flowers transform monochromatic leather into canvases of joy. Even Saskia de Brauw, nineties icon reborn, wore tiny flowers on gray as if they'd grown there naturally.
Fendi SS26 doesn't just present clothes&mdash;it presents possibilities. In Venturini Fendi's hands, visual chaos becomes visual poetry, proving that sometimes the most beautiful order emerges from the most brilliant disorder.

Fendi SS26: When Chaos Becomes Poetry

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