DOLCE & GABBANA: PAJAMAS BECOME A MANIFESTO OF DREAMS, LINGERIE, AND AN UNBETRAYED BAROQUE DNA

DOLCE & GABBANA

Style, sensuality, and fantasy: the duo’s new show plays with excesses of creativity, perhaps too much combination of styles and colors, but remains faithful to its own code.

Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2026 runway show opens with a clear idea: transforming underwear into a statement, the loungewear into a symbol of desire. Pajamas, the undisputed star of the collection, are presented in shiny silk, vertical stripes, elaborate embroidery, and endless variations ranging from refined to playful. It’s the piece of the moment, yet reinterpreted with the visionary power that has always been part of the brand. Each look seems to affirm that fashion is no longer just clothing, but a projection of moods, a story that moves between intimacy and the public stage.

Alongside pajamas, the maison’s great classics return: subtle sheer fabrics, chiffon hinting at lingerie and two-piece suits, and feminine silhouettes that oscillate between club girl, femme fatale, and young woman playing with her image. It’s a world of contrasts, where sensuality coexists with comfort, and where the body is never hidden, but orchestrated in a choreography of veils and embroidery.

The shoes amplify this duality: on one hand, low, soft slippers, almost as if to bring fashion back to everyday life; on the other, sky-high heels and stay-ups that highlight the collection’s most seductive side. Completing the look are oversized men’s jackets, inserted as a break from the rhythm, emphasizing the gender mix that has become a universal contemporary language.

There’s no shortage of references to the brand’s historic imagery. Baroque theatricality, Sicilian references, and the dramatic power of patterns and colors remain the recognizable signature that still makes Dolce & Gabbana unmistakable today. While there’s a risk of excessive decoration, it’s precisely this abundance that defines the stylistic signature, never betraying its origins. The collection seems to demonstrate that the brand’s identity, while contaminated by contemporary influences, remains intact and coherent.

Dolce & Gabbana thus confirm their ability to combine different worlds and transform them into a unified narrative, at times contradictory but always spectacular. Perhaps not every combination is indispensable, perhaps not every fantasy is necessary, but the whole works because it is authentically theirs. In an era when many brands struggle to stand out, the Italian duo still manages to create an imagery that is instantly recognizable, baroque, excessive, but never devoid of charm.