Embracing the freedom to follow your own path, finding a balance between instinct and rationality. With the Spring/Summer 2026 season, Roberto Cavalli makes no compromises. The universe shaped by Fausto Puglisi is unmistakably gold. Choosing gold does not mean choosing just a color, but embracing an aesthetic vision: precious, bold, and contemporary, like the women who have always worn Cavalli.
This season, gold is not merely a hue — it is a statement. A declaration of intent. Shimmering and sun-drenched, the palette sets the tone for a collection that celebrates individuality and inner strength. Here, gold becomes an attitude: luminous, fearless, and powerful.
The clothes are an invitation to break rules with elegance, to dance between the wild and the refined. Flowing fabrics trace the body like instinct traces a decision, while sharp tailoring anchors the looks in reality — the rational meeting the untamed.
In a world filled with thousands of messages, often violent and disturbing, the brand shines the spotlight on a new awareness, based on consistency and the celebration of the Maison’s original values, which this season are revealed in a seductive and intriguing metallic glow. Fausto Puglisi travels through art and different eras in search of personalities to celebrate from the regal Cleopatra played by Elizabeth Taylor to Nan Kempner’s effortless elegance of and the radically dégagé attitude of Jane Birkin walking barefoot in the streets of Saint Tropez. This journey through an idea of strong and multifaceted femininity, deeply and consistently free, translates into a collection that, even in its most intricate couture-like details, aims to communicate a message of immediacy. What could be more liberating than something that triggers desire without obstacles?
Denim, in keeping with the brand’s most authentic tradition, takes center stage. Always interpreted in an experimental key with an ultra-glam result. With their bell-bottom silhouettes and low waists, coated and washed jeans, enriched with lace-up and distressed details. They are worn with fluid shirts that sensually slide over the skin and with masculine jackets cut in generous volumes. Pleats, also reproduced in the trompe l’oeil inside print, add movement to frocks, skirts, and trenches. While denim enters the world of evening wear. Cavalli is a symbol of vital energy, renewal and transformation. The snake, an icon in the Cavalli world, stands out once again.
In Fausto Puglisi’s hands, Cavalli’s signature sensuality is not softened — it is sharpened. Animal prints appear as fierce whispers, metallic textures glint like armor under sunlight, and drapery cascades with Grecian drama. Each piece tells a story of independence — not curated for approval, but curated for the woman herself.
The Cavalli woman for SS26 doesn’t follow trends — she sets her own course, magnetic and mythic in her presence. This collection is her wardrobe for a summer of self-possession, of luxurious rebellion, of golden freedom.
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