Bottega Veneta presents a new visual project around Winter 2026, the second collection for the House by Creative Director Louise Trotter. The project brings together eight photographers who each documented the collection from an individual perspective, forming a collective portrait that moves between runway images and moments surrounding the show.
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The participating photographers are Chris Rhodes, Cristina Stohle, James Ari King, Kira Bunse, Nicole Maria Winkler, Piotr Niepsuj, Rosie Harriet Ellis and Sam Penn. Their work appears in Zine 002, which records the process and ideas around Winter 2026 while examining its balance of structure, softness, movement and detail.
Bottega Veneta presented Winter 2026 in Milan on February 28, placing the collection inside Palazzo San Fedele, the House’s new Milan headquarters. The presentation took place among softly lit red carpets and lacquered columns, with British furniture designer Max Lamb contributing a seating installation titled 421 chairs.
For her second Bottega Veneta collection, Trotter looked to Milan and developed a dialogue between Brutalism and sensuality. The House describes the season through softened structures, considered curves and expressive details, with familiar daywear forms taking on changed proportions and surfaces.
The collection also considers how people dress for themselves and for the communities around them. Bottega Veneta connects this idea with the social spaces of Milan, referencing the opera, the theatre and the piazza. Personal objects enter the same vocabulary, including a grandmother’s evening purse and a father’s worn shoe.
Trotter extends these ideas through silhouettes that move between controlled construction and softer volume. The House describes Winter 2026 as an exploration of structures made softer, with Brutalist lines developing through curves and more expressive forms. The collection places close attention on the relationship between material, movement and the body.
Zine 002 continues that idea through photography. Eight photographers approach the same collection across the same eight-day period, producing separate records that become one visual study. Their images bring the viewer closer to Trotter’s Winter 2026 collection, moving between scale and detail while documenting a season shaped by softness, volume, structure and motion.
