Elisabetta Franchi Fall-Winter 2026 | Fashion Show |

Elisabetta Franchi Fall-Winter 2026 | Fashion Show |

Elisabetta Franchi presents the Fall Winter 2026 collection at Palazzo Acerbi, reaffirming the venue as the Maison’s symbolic runway setting. In this narrative, the historic “House of the Devil” transforms into a space of light and conquest — the stage for a journey that moves through shadow toward full self-awareness.

The fashion show is driven by a clear tension: not to deny the past, but to transcend it. The architecture remains austere, the memory intact. It is the energy that shifts. Light becomes direction, presence, assertion.

The collection revisits Victorian imagery, stripped of nostalgia and rewritten through a contemporary lens. Romanticism no longer fights darkness — it inhabits it with conscious elegance. The discipline of the silhouette echoes nineteenth-century construction: architectural bodices emerge from wool coats and tailored jackets, sculpting the body with

precision. The waist is emphasized through internal corsetry and glossy vinyl bustiers that carve defined hourglass lines.

Structure engages in dialogue with lightness. Blouses and mini dresses unfold in flounces and ruffles, while georgette and tulle skirts explore asymmetry in motion. Georgette blouses with side slits open like petals as the model walks, paired with ultra-high-waisted trousers or lower-

cut slim silhouettes.

Crystal embroideries enrich skirts, tops, dresses, and masculine suits inspired by pinstripes.Sheer lightweight cashmere reveals without exposing. Trousers, engineered with internal corsetry, define the waist while falling either wide or tapered. Black-on-black Victorian

embroideries merge with the garments’ architecture, becoming part of their very structure. Rebrodé lace traces the silhouette, allowing glimpses of skin with sophisticated sensuality.

Black remains the heart of the collection — deep, authoritative, opulent. Ivory introduces a soft, controlled luminosity. Red pulses like a vital heartbeat. Navy, mélange grey, and cigar tones add depth and rigor.

For the first time, Elisabetta Franchi signs her woman’s gaze, introducing a pair of sunglasses that bears her name for Fall Winter 26. Not an accessory to complete a look, but a symbol of identity — a detail that reinforces presence, power, and confidence.

For Fall Winter 26, a woman walks the runway who knows the shadows and chooses the light. She wears structure as a declaration of strength and uses lightness as a language of power. She no longer has to choose between purity and authority — she embodies both.