ZEGNA PRESENTS SPRING/SUMMER 2026 IN DUBAI

On June 11^th, Zegna held its latest show in Dubai. The show reconstructed an homage to the historic mansion of the brand’s founder, the Villa Zegna in Trivero. The collection walked to the sounds of live music curated by James Blake and performed by the Dubai Opera.

Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori, when speaking about the show and collection, had this to say. “There is an immediacy and a liveliness to the earthy allure of this collection that belies the layered thought process behind it. While researching, we came across an image that felt illuminating, and that perfectly summed up my intentions. It depicts a chair, upon which items of clothing are piled up after being taken off, probably, ready to be picked up the day after. The stratigraphy and the casualness suggest a life lived intensely, which is what we are after. As designers, we do half of the work: the rest happens when clients interpret pieces day by day. This individual, non-standard interpretation today is on the catwalk, showing the ZEGNA view in its natural environment: life. There is a culture of dressing, a proper and insouciant manner to it which to me captures a peculiar Italian timbre that I want to keep as our signature”.

The silhouette of the collection is loose and deconstructed. Jackets are as light as shirts, and the Il Conte has been redesigned in a boxy, roomier version. Double-layer Nehru shirts and long shirts that double as outerwear set the easy, flowing tone, as do the tailored shorts worn under tailored summer coats or body-hugging blusons. Mattress and pajama stripes run on weightless shirting suits. The leather jackets and coats are equally light and the deconstructed blazers have low, two-button closures.

The palette is a tonal mix of bianco Oasi, mastice, burro di montagna, caligine and corda, accented with acidic notes of olio, cognac, liquore, felce, ciclamino, magnolia, anemone and dense tones of fumo, ardesia lavato, barolo.