From Prada’s sculptural exploration of the skirt to Fendi’s intimate conversation with the body, Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 offered a season of contrasts — where craftsmanship met experimentation, heritage was softened through new perspectives, and familiar wardrobe codes were given a fresh sense of movement.

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Milan once again became a meeting point between fashion’s past and its evolving future. Across the Spring/Summer 2027 collections, designers explored the relationship between the body, clothing, and the way we move through the world — each house approaching the idea through its own distinctive vocabulary.

At Prada, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons reduced the conversation to one essential piece: the skirt, transforming it into an exercise in proportion, construction, texture, and attitude. At Fendi, Maria Grazia Chiuri placed the body at the centre of her first Spring/Summer collection for the house, exploring lingerie, layering, lace, and contrasts between intimacy and expression.

Elsewhere, Etro softened its bohemian heritage, Brunello Cucinelli celebrated the poetry of craftsmanship and everyday dressing, while Max Mara looked to pioneering women explorers for a wardrobe shaped by freedom, utility, and elegance.

Together, these collections reveal a Milan season less concerned with simply defining a trend and more interested in redefining how clothing can be experienced.

Prada Spring 2027: Skirting Around

For Spring/Summer 2027, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons placed the skirt at the heart of the wardrobe — not as a supporting element, but as the starting point for an entire fashion language.

The familiar silhouette became a canvas for experimentation. Pleated forms extended beyond the body, while crystal embroidery, enlarged fasteners, and layers of crinoline introduced unexpected volume and ornamentation. Even functional details such as Velcro became part of the creative vocabulary, allowing shape and embellishment to be adjusted and transformed.

Technical fabrics were manipulated into delicate pleats, while cotton was treated to resemble leather or suede. Worn alongside sweaters, shirts, and bra tops, the skirts continuously shifted in proportion and character.

At Prada, simplicity became anything but simple. A single garment was enough to explore an entire spectrum of femininity, construction, and movement.

Fendi Spring 2027: Through the Looking Glass

For her first Spring/Summer 2027 collection for Fendi, Maria Grazia Chiuri began with the body itself.

The collection considers clothing as a layer between the individual and the world, bringing traditionally intimate pieces into a wider conversation about identity and self-expression. Lingerie-inspired elements appear beneath and alongside garments, while lace, embroidery, and contrasting colours create a sense of depth and sensuality.

Italian pop culture also enters the picture, with references including Raffaella Carrà, introducing an element of performance, confidence, and individuality.

Layering becomes central to the collection. Glossy surfaces meet matte textures; silk encounters animal print; velvet contrasts with parchment-like finishes. Dressing gowns move beyond the boundaries of the home, while jewel shoes add a decorative, almost theatrical punctuation.

Masculine and feminine codes are similarly allowed to coexist without rigid separation — creating a wardrobe that feels intimate, expressive, and unmistakably modern.

Etro Spring 2027: Fuzzy Halo

For Spring/Summer 2027, Etro turns inward, taking its recognisable bohemian heritage and allowing it to dissolve into something lighter and more fluid.

The house’s iconic paisley appears softened, blurred, faded, and almost sunbleached. In some looks, the motif is reduced to fragments and patches, as though discovered through the passing of time.

The colour story follows the rhythm of a Mediterranean summer — powdery neutrals and warm yellows gradually moving towards blues and greens before deepening into burgundy, brown, and black.

Silhouettes echo the same sense of movement. Vaporous dresses, transparent layers, fluttering fringes, and abbreviated hems flowing into longer trains create an effortless feeling of motion.

Yet Etro never completely abandons structure. Lean trousers and sharp tailoring provide definition, while suede blousons, denim jackets, gladiator sandals, ballerina flats, and relaxed bohemian bags ground the collection in everyday life.

Rather than looking away from its history, Etro allows its history to become fluid — blurred, layered, and reimagined for a new generation.

Brunello Cucinelli Spring 2027: In Bloom

At Brunello Cucinelli, Spring/Summer 2027 is an exploration of savoir-faire — where exceptional craftsmanship meets the ease of everyday dressing.

The collection brings together seemingly unexpected references: Nordic details, sailor stripes, golden accents, raffia, organza, crochet, and workwear. The result is not a collision, but a conversation between different worlds.

Utility is softened through fluid silhouettes and refined tailoring. Shirts borrow the architectural language of bomber jackets and trench coats, while outerwear is translated into lighter seasonal materials, from striped poplin and denim to translucent organza.

Knitwear becomes one of the collection’s defining elements. Hand-crocheted and embroidered textures, inspired by Viennese canework, appear across skirts, T-shirts, and accessories, bringing the hand of the artisan visibly into the finished garment.

The palette moves through white, ivory, rope, khaki, clay, leather, and Corten, punctuated by touches of red, blue, and gold.

It is a collection that reminds us that luxury does not always need to announce itself. Sometimes, it can be found in the handwork, the material, the movement — and in the quiet confidence of something made exceptionally well.

Max Mara Spring 2027: Make Yourself Useful

For Spring/Summer 2027, Max Mara looks to the women explorers of the 1930s — including Freya Stark, Osa Johnson, Eva Dickson, Amelia Earhart, and Beryl Markham — and translates their adventurous wardrobes into a contemporary city uniform.

The collection is built around the tension between utility and elegance.

Safari jackets return in textured linen and gabardine, while fluid skirts, slinky knits, and camiknickers transformed into shorts introduce a softer, more sensual dimension.

Tailoring adopts a distinctly functional attitude. Cargo vests are paired with coordinated pieces, aviator-inspired jackets feature leather straps and D-rings, and multi-way bags shift effortlessly between crossbody, clutch, and rucksack.

Organza overalls and a voluminous, low-belted trench continue the exploration of practicality without sacrificing drama.

Here, the idea of the modern woman is not defined by a single setting. She moves between the city, travel, work, and evening with a wardrobe designed to follow her.

The Milan Perspective

Across Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027, one idea emerges with particular clarity: fashion is becoming less about defining a single silhouette and more about exploring possibility.

Prada finds endless variation in one garment. Fendi brings the intimate language of the body into the open. Etro allows heritage to fade into something new, while Brunello Cucinelli places craftsmanship at the centre of contemporary ease. Max Mara turns the spirit of exploration into a modern wardrobe.

Different visions, different histories, yet a shared desire to reconsider what familiar clothing can become.

And perhaps that is where Milan remains most compelling — not in predicting what we will wear next, but in reminding us that even the most familiar pieces can still tell a new story.

Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 is, ultimately, a conversation between heritage and reinvention — where the past is not left behind, but given room to move forward.