Louise Trotter's Third Bottega Veneta Collection Finishes What Her Second Started
Key details
- Designer
- Louise Trotter, Bottega Veneta creative director since January 2025
- Show
- Spring/summer 2027 ready-to-wear, Milan Fashion Week
- Date
- Saturday, September 26, 2026
- Collection
- Trotter's third for the house, after a September 2025 debut and a February 2026 second collection
- Front row
- Solange, Tyler, The Creator, Julianne Moore, Jacob Elordi; Kendall Jenner closed the show
Louise Trotter's third runway show for Bottega Veneta, staged in Milan on Saturday, September 26, kept moving in a direction her second collection had already set: away from the heavy, structural clothes that defined her September 2025 debut. The spring/summer 2027 collection pushed further into crochet and color, without dropping the woven leather that made her first show recognizable.
Intrecciato, the woven-leather technique Bottega Veneta has built its identity on for decades, stayed in the collection but changed shape: elongated coats and flared trousers used it for texture and movement rather than bulk, and it carried over into men's trench coats and women's tall boots. Leather and raffia tote bags came back doubled in size from prior seasons, keeping the house's bag business in the mix alongside the runway statement.
The new part is the color and the fabric mix. Suits and dresses arrived in yellow, red, purple and florals, built to hold their structure without the extra weight, and crochet turned up throughout: fisherman hats, and floral crochet worked into loose white sweaters.
The seating doubled as its own showpiece: guests sat on lacquered cardboard stools designed by Berlin-based artist Ilya Goldman Gubin, each one topped with a single parrot tulip made entirely out of leather.
Backstage, Trotter described the season's work as finding techniques that kept the house's craftsmanship while making the clothes lighter and easier to wear — less a reset than a continuation of what her second collection had already begun.
The front row did its part too. Kendall Jenner closed the show in a voluminous black dress; Solange and Tyler, The Creator sat nearby, along with Bottega ambassadors Julianne Moore and Jacob Elordi. None of that changes what was on the runway, but it's the kind of turnout a house courts when it wants a show to travel past the trade press.
Trotter took over at Bottega Veneta in January 2025, named to the job the previous December after Matthieu Blazy left for the creative director role at Chanel. She arrived with a run of creative director jobs behind her — five years at Lacoste, then Carven starting in 2023 — and her September 2025 debut drew real notice for how deliberately it leaned on the house's leatherwork, and for how heavy the results were to actually wear. Her second collection, shown that following March, already started stripping weight out of the tailoring; this third one keeps going, far enough that the house's signature material now reads more like an accent than the whole point.
Correction: An earlier version of this story described the set as a line of white cubes, dented and crushed on purpose, and compared it to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"; neither cited source supports that, and the seating was in fact lacquered cardboard stools designed by Berlin-based artist Ilya Goldman Gubin. It also said the collection reached for lace and techniques "associated with the Venice region"; the sourced reviews document crochet, not lace, and no regional framing. And it said Matthieu Blazy left for a "newly created Artistic Director of Fashion Activities role" at Chanel; his title there is creative director. The key details also put Kylie Jenner in the front row; she closed the show, AFP reported. It also said Trotter's second collection was shown in March 2026; she showed it in Milan on February 28, 2026. Every earlier version also named the model who closed the show as Kylie Jenner, following AFP; it was Kendall Jenner, per Dazed and Who What Wear.
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