Louise Trotter’s first full menswear season for Bottega Veneta appears like a treatise on the art of making. It reclaims tailoring from the showroom and returns it to the workshop, where fabric, form, and gesture are reconsidered by hand.
Coats, suits, and trousers seem constructed from the inside out, where linings, padding, and cut act as architecture. The effect is subtle yet exacting. Sculptural shoulders melt into soft draping and suits hold their shape through patience. It is tailoring that moves as it breathes, informed by touch.
Throughout, the collection unfolds as a dialogue between tailored control and tenderness. Wool gabardine, paper cotton, and washed leather are treated like clay, bent into form through wear.
Knitwear becomes an improvisation with scarves looped as shields and sweaters tied as gestures of calm. The expanded Intrecciato weave appears across duffels, totes, and slouching clutches, asserting craft as method.
In clay, graphite, and vegetal yellow, Trotter reshapes Bottega Veneta’s language into one of utility and intimacy. The result is a house re-centered on the maker’s hand, where refinement lives in use.
Bottega Veneta Summer 2026 Collection
