Loro Piana Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear

The collections at Loro Piana’s presentation were much more interestingly sited than in the men’s and women’s look books. Shown in the galleries of the recently reopened Palazzo Citterio, their colors, textures and silhouettes were set within walls hung with works by Boccioni, Picasso, Carrà, Morandi, Modigliani and more. It was quite gutsy, and borderline presumptuous, to suggest these garments could hold their own in a conversation with the canon of abstract modernism. As a light chat rather than a heavy dialogue, however, the clothes held their own perfectly well. The pith-helmet-esque hat in an off-pink microcheck—in what looked like a cashmere-silk blend that also appeared in the suit beneath—worn with a brushed-cotton country check shirt and a knotted pale foulard, did, oddly, echo both the color and form of the Morandis behind it. A very handsome marine-blue patch-pocket field coat with matching straight-leg trousers, paired with a beige beanie, seemed almost adversarially positioned against Picasso’s 1942