Blumarine Pre-Fall 2026

David Koma fell under the spell of Venice this season, hardly a shock given La Serenissima’s centuries-long habit of seducing even the most clear-eyed visitors. “It brings out the artist in me,” he said, noting that he fully surrendered to the city’s mysterious nocturnal allure and shadowy glamour. Masked balls, elegant debauchery, a frisson of fetish, sensuality wrapped in opulence: Koma ticked off every Venetian cliché, weaving them into his dark romantic fantasia for Blumarine. A 1992 campaign shot by Albert Watson in Venice served as a visual point of departure, while Helmut Newton’s imagery, another touchstone for the label, hovered in the background. For Koma, Newton’s brand of eroticism has never been about shock value: fetish, he insisted, is “not provocation, but control.” That idea shaped the emphatic hourglass silhouettes that were an evolution of the corsetry Koma has introduced since his first season at the label. Here it blossomed into structured mini crinolines swathed in lace, tightly fastened with gilded buttons shaped like masks and lion heads, Venetian emblems by way of Blumarine.