Vivienne Westwood has recently unveiled its Spring/Summer 2026 lookbook, and it is already shifting the conversation around turning everyday objects into high end fashion through genderfluid tailoring. Arriving at a moment when fashion is currently obsessed with timelessness, this collection arrives as a bold provocation. Shot by Bella Newman in a light-filled house near the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the lookbook trades the traditional runway for an intimate editorial . Across 43 looks, Creative Director Andreas Kronthaler lays out a clear vision.
This collection reimagines intimate, lived-in elegance by transforming everyday items like curtains into dresses, blending baroque opulence with punk deconstruction, and blurring gender norms with fluid tailoring and draping. The collection features poetic draping, repurposed fabrics like lace and linen, earthy/celestial colors, and subversive details like safety pins, embodying Westwood's spirit of protest through ornament and craftsmanship.
This is not merely a clothing presentation; it is a study in sustainability and resourcefulness. The prevailing mood is dandy, yet there are pockets of shabbiness woven throughout. The decision to shoot in a garden for some shots fundamentally changes how we read the clothes. By placing the collection inside light-filled rooms and a garden for some of the collection's imagery, the brand establishes a dialogue between garment and environment.
If this lookbook produces a viral moment, it will be because of the drunken jacket. Look 3 encapsulates the entire thesis of the collection in one frame. The Drunken jacket resurrects Vivienne's radical 'drunken tailoring' system – distorting classic suiting into surreal, almost abstract proportions – here rendered in the house's signature Louth Tartan for a collision of British heritage and deconstructive rebellion.
The collection succeeds most powerfully in its treatment of craftsmanship as protest. Here, the designer demonstrates true mastery. The Julia skirt, in particular, feels both inevitable and entirely fresh – a difficult balance to strike. It carries forward Kronthaler's beloved 'Vase' jacquard from Spring-Summer 2024 – a two-tone knit pattern now rendered in a fitted, ruffle-hem silhouette that transforms an archival print into an everyday heirloom.
In an era when fashion content is consumed at scroll speed and discarded instantly, this lookbook rewards the patient eye. It asks us to look, then look again. Whether you are a buyer, an editor, or simply a lover of clothing, that is an invitation worth accepting.
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