Giuseppe Di Morabito Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear

It’s been 10 years since Giuseppe Di Morabito presented his first collection, inside a Milan gypsotheque. “Franca Sozzani was there,” he recalled, “I remember it vividly.” Yesterday, those images returned at Napoleon’s neoclassical Palazzina Appiani, at Milan’s Arena Civica. Instead of a runway, Di Morabito staged an intimate dinner followed by a masquerade ball with a white dress code. “I looked at the calendar and saw it was Carnival time, so I thought: why not stage a ball? I felt the desire to turn this winter fashion week moment into something more symbolic.,” he said. Thus, friends and family filled the long tables topped with candelabras and statue casts, many wearing the brand’s archive pieces. The real show, however, was unfolding on the illuminated staircase overlooking the Arena, where the collection, The Inner Venus, appeared immobilized, petrified. “We studied all the installations as if they were contemporary relics,” Di Morabito explained. Each look had been resin-coated, frozen mid-gesture, as if struck by a contemporary Medusa. “The concept is the fragment,” he added, “In sculpture there’s Canova’s perfection, but then there’s the broken torso, mutilated, even more emotional.”