Milano Fashion Week, Francesca Liberatore Runway Show AW 2026 -27

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Milano Fashion Week, Francesca Liberatore Runway Show AW 2026 -27

For Francesca Liberatore, this is her third and yet another distinct format within a public educational institution. This time it is the Nicola Moreschi high school: “Because my peculiarity is being both a fashion designer and a teacher, and it is here through the individual’s primary education that ideas and imagination are developed,” the designer reiterates. She continues: “I thank both the school and the Metropolitan City, with its offices, for positively welcoming this unusual request and for guiding me with competence and kindness toward the result. 

Perhaps recognition and a plea should also be addressed to the city of Milan, so that it may continue to preserve intact and exclusively for the growth of new generations these wonderful and imposing places of the city.”

“Because pupils accustomed to copying

May invent the worlds at which they look”

“Blood that flows without imagination

Brings tumors of melancholy”

Fabrizio De André

Breath, mouth, arrow: intelligence becomes the word that strikes the mark.

In the Liberatore AW2026–27 collection, there is a reference to Chinese symbolism, where language generates the idea.

As in a form of writing that allows no erasure, the gesture is essential. It shifts from square to diamond in a search for stability and balance founded on the richness of diverse perspectives. A choice of dialogue between generations and cultures that redirects forms and reinvents gestures.

These hybridizations between tradition and avant-garde open new fields of application, blending opposites into a single, multifaceted ensemble.

A liturgy of shapes and colors, lengths and materials. Leather (which seals the long-standing partnership with Lineapelle) imitates denim in 80s proportions, with wide sleeves resting on triangles and leopard inlays. The elegance of jackets and suits with mini skirts or full circle skirts alternates with more dynamic pairings in futuristic-print lycra among geometric blocks of black, aquamarine, and violet. Diamonds create compositions in red, amethyst, and brown for relaxed-fit coats and bomber jackets with knitted sleeves, often worn with colorful leggings in turquoise, flame red, and lemon yellow.

A playful influence serves as a key creative principle in Francesca Liberatore’s collections, inspired by rewriting everyday life with wit and nonchalance. Beneath its apparent lightness, this expressive freedom seeks to regain control over reality through that space where comfort and distinction naturally merge.