WHAT 2026 MEANS FOR FASHION

The first month of the year presents itself as a new blank canvas for debuts. Between January 26 and 29, the Spring/Summer ’26 haute couture collections will be presented in Paris. As part of the calendar, Christian Dior and Chanel will witness the beginning of new creative eras within their couture lines.

On Monday, January 26, Jonathan Anderson will present his debut for Dior Couture, completing almost a full cycle as a designer at the house. Anderson arrives at Dior after having built a language in which craftsmanship accompanies human emotion, a sense of wonder, and a connection to the dreamlike. His couture debut is anticipated as a continuation of the elevated, almost princely world he has shaped in his first collections for Dior, with particular attention to the season’s red carpets. His challenge will be to reposition and reinvent couture for a global maison without reducing it to a niche. What weight does couture carry today in such an accelerated system? What does it mean to inherit such an important history without being held back by expectations?

Once these questions around this debut have been addressed, the following day will bring Blazy’s debut for Chanel Couture. Chanel is not demanding reinvention nor seeking a star designer, as the CEO once stated, but rather a talent capable of restoring emotion to the brand and sustaining the legacy of a world as immeasurable as Chanel’s.

A third act will arrive in March, outside the framework of couture: Demna Gvasalia’s first runway show for Gucci. After years of explicit cultural commentary, his arrival at one of the system’s most emblematic houses raises another question: how will he translate his radical vision into a product rooted in Italian heritage without neutralizing it? His ability to generate results is well established, and his first two collections for the house appear to echo the spirit of Tom Ford with viral success. All that remains is to wait for the third month of the year to witness the most anticipated debut of the moment.

What is the 2026 Met Gala Theme?

The great celebration of fashion, culture, and the arts becomes the center of the world on the first Monday of May each year. This time, however, it is undergoing positively transformative changes. Scheduled for May 4, 2026, the Met Gala will be presented under the title Costume Art. The new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art proposes a conceptual shift from previous years, exploring a diachronic journey rather than focusing on a single movement or specific philosophy.

This change is no coincidence, as the museum unveiled major news tied to the Gala: the opening of new galleries for the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year does not celebrate only a temporary exhibition, but rather a complete rethinking of the place fashion occupies within the museum. From 2026 onward, it will be permanent.

Costume Art, curated by Andrew Bolton with the support of Anna Wintour, will be the first exhibition to occupy these nearly 12,000 square meters of permanent galleries, located next to the Great Hall. The exhibition traces a journey through Western art, from prehistory to the present, through bodily typologies: the classical body, the nude, the aging body, the pregnant body, the anatomical body.

Garments enter into dialogue with sculptures, paintings, and archaeological objects to underscore an essential idea: clothing constructs human physicality. That body, in turn, shapes the form, material, and manner of garments and dress. The promotional image depicts a terracotta Nike wearing a Delphos dress by Mariano Fortuny and Henriette Nigrin, offering a preview of what is to come.

This framework inevitably transforms the landscape of the highly anticipated red carpet. With Anna Wintour at the helm and hosts such as Beyoncé (and her much anticipated return to the Met Gala), Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams, this will be a gala to remember.

Image: Sadie Sink in Prada at the 2025 Met Gala. Courtesy of Prada.

In 2026, we will celebrate forty years of OTTODISANPIETRO as a family project and a leading reference for luxury in northern Spain since 1986. The imminent opening of the new OTTODISANPIETRO Menswear space on Juana de Vega Street is a strategic move that strengthens our long-standing relationship with art, architecture, and the city of A Coruña. Located directly opposite our women’s store, the new boutique establishes a direct dialogue between both universes and redefines the experience of men’s luxury through a cultural, contemporary, and open perspective.

The architectural project, led by renowned architect Elsa Urquijo, conceives the space as a living environment where fashion and art coexist without hierarchies. Works by contemporary artists are integrated alongside collections by major designers as an essential part of modern creativity and beauty. The store thus becomes an ever-evolving exhibition space, where each visit offers a different reading and where dressing becomes a cultural experience.

This opening is part of one of the most dynamic areas of A Coruña, at a key moment of urban revitalization and growing attraction to the historic city center. Juana de Vega re-emerges as an axis of renewed cosmopolitan energy, where culture, architecture, and contemporary creation naturally converge through the movement of the city’s cosmopolitan inhabitants. OTTODISANPIETRO takes part in this momentum by reinforcing its role as a cultural agent, not only as a retailer.

With this new space, the brand renews its commitment to a vision of luxury tied to curiosity, artistic sensitivity, and a global context. A place designed to observe, discover, and inhabit fashion from a broad, conscious perspective, deeply connected to the city that hosts it.