Blumarine Spring/Summer 2026 - Milan Fashion Week.

(Images: Blumarine 2025)

David Koma's 5th show for Blumarine, as the Italian brand's new creative director, reworking the styled arrays of Blumarine's 'Resort' aesthetics, into a more gothic inclaination, mixed obviously with his trademark sex appeal, and for his latest collection, Koma was inspired by the mythos of Dracula, and Vampires.  More, so the seductive attributes of Vampiric charm, which is always sexual in its nature.  So, one should not be shocked that Koma has also reworked the traditional Spring Summer outing into a more decadent affair, akin to a sipping on a Parisian Blonde cocktail, while sharing Black Forest Cake with your lover, within a plush, dimly lit, sublevel, basement style 1980s esque bar.

With that in mind, the Spring Summer 2026 collection is no subtle affair, in fact at 43 pieces, it feels relentless, yet powerfully tuned to the sybaritic.  This is passionate sex, and Koma, as noted with his own signature label, doesn't hold back from directing amorous intensity at his audience.  And for Blumarine, as mentioned, with his bevy of vamp looking models, Koma has upped the ante, with 'boho' styled flappers, with their bare all, sheer fabrics.  While the 1970s hedonic as a gush of desire, has been supercharged, from rich pinks, reds, and skin tones, amidst the stygian carnal of lingerie out wear.  Which was a runway trend 8 years ago, and maybe about to return once again in 2025.  

Although not new territory for Koma, there is no doubt he's leading a renewed charge towards the amatory.  And Koma's vampy witches, who are conjuring up seductive spells, or as he quoted for the collection, "...eerie yet enchanting—a dark fairy tale unfolding in an Italian summer...", with prints and jewelry of spiders, dragonflies and butterflies.  Free flowing, rebellious and sexually defiant.  Why would you not have been enchanted by its spell?

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(A.Glass 2025)