Versace staged its Spring Summer 2026 collection inside Milan’s Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the city’s oldest art museum and a 17th-century palazzo that once served as a private residence. The setting felt less like a show venue and more like a home—intimate and lived-in.
Across two floors of historic salons, set designer Andrea Faraguna transformed the museum into a dream of domestic life. Masterpieces as backdrop, while each room offered a glimpse into a narrative of a life lived: a dining table crowned with a champagne tower, mirrored corridors humming with reflection, bedrooms scattered with yellowing papers and magazines. At the center, in the Sala Della Medusa, a marble bust of the mythic figure presided—a reminder of Versace’s enduring emblem and the tension between beauty, danger, and power.
This mise-en-scène captured Dario Vitale’s evolving vision for the House: the dialogue between modernity and heritage, sensuality and intellect, generosity and restraint.
The atmosphere was shaped by a soundscape from Terraforma, the Milan-based collective known for bending sound and space into one. Voices drifted through the rooms; the hiss of radio static and the echo of footsteps gave way to a shifting mix of music curated with Car Culture (New York DJ Daniel Fisher, aka Physical Therapy). From Handel to Morricone, Prince to Laurie Anderson, Madonna to the Eurythmics—the playlist pulsed with movement and memory, tracing the same rhythm that runs through Versace itself: emotional, unpredictable, alive.