Zegna presents the Summer 2027 collection under the title La Villeggiatura, drawing from an Italian tradition of relocating everyday life to a villa for an entire season. The house introduced the collection at Malibu Pier in Los Angeles, bringing its vision of cultivated leisure to the California coast.
SPRING SUMMER 2027
La Villeggiatura takes its name from villeggiare, the Italian verb meaning to stay in a villa. The tradition reached its peak between the 1950s and 1970s, when families moved their routines, conversations, habits, and wardrobes to temporary summer homes. This practice treated seasonal travel as a continuation of daily life in another setting, guided by slower rhythms and a relaxed sense of propriety.
Zegna connects the concept with family photographs and memories of summers spent near and far. The house approaches La Villeggiatura as a mindset shaped by saper vivere and saper vestire, the Italian understanding of living and dressing well.
Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori builds the collection around changing categories and the demands of contemporary life. His approach begins with fabric, texture, and pattern. Subtle adjustments to threads, surfaces, and construction give familiar materials a renewed character. Sartori develops a distinctly Italian view of summer dressing while keeping the collection open to cosmopolitan influences.
Loose and slightly narrow shapes touch the body lightly, creating movement without excess volume. Striped suits appear with matching shirts, extending one pattern across the full look. Boxy and fluid shirts arrive in nappa, nubuck, crocodile, and silk, paired with tailored shorts.
Shirts feature detachable and interchangeable collars. Blazers include concealed adjustable half-belts that alter the waist and overall line. Zegna also returns to the multifunctional double-breasted jacket introduced during the previous season. Fluid overshirts and supple knitted jackets continue the collection’s focus on clothing that responds to different moods and settings.
Leather anoraks and intarsia bombers reference nautical clothing through refined materials and controlled proportions. Funnel necks carry smocked detailing, while braided and knitted suede adds texture to bombers and pullovers. Stripes, woven surfaces, and contrasting fabric treatments create variation across the collection.
The belted safari jacket holds a key position and also appears as a short-sleeved overshirt. Towelling pullovers, shorts, and tailored trousers support the seasonal wardrobe. Duster coats sit over shorts, extending the vertical silhouette. Slippers and moccasins come in soft leather, while roomy duffels, totes, and striped or plain nubuck bags address travel. Squared glasses, silk foulards, and knitted silk scarves complete the looks.
The palette draws from poolside and coastal tones, including acquamarina, acqua, onda, alga, and marea. Boa, bandiera, madrepora, and teak add stronger accents. Conchiglia, cima, duna, and molo provide neutral notes, joined by desaturated black.
Materials include raw silk stripe gabardine, washed hemp gabardine, poplin, Oasi Lino oxford, jacquard, colored denim drill, printed silk, French velvet, seersucker, bouclé towelling, and nappa leather.
