It’s been just 12 months since the season of designer debuts, that historic SS26 fashion month marked by an unprecedented sea change at the top of luxury labels. But despite just a single year passing, the fashion industry has continued to steamroll on at an alarming rate. On Friday, Demna presented his fifth collection for Gucci in the space of a year, an SS27 offering that celebrated the stereotypes that have defined the brand’s rise; in Paris, Matthieu Blazy – another new hire for SS26 – has shown six catwalks at Chanel, and will present his seventh next week; on the other side of the Champs-Élysées, Jonathan Anderson took up residence at Dior, and has presented a whopping ten collections for the house since, eight of which have been runway shows.

One woman who has not had to deal with the breakneck speed of the industry – at least not to that extreme degree – is Louise Trotter. Since making her Bottega Veneta debut in September 2025, Trotter has delivered two ready-to-wear collections, and now returns with her third for SS27. While Chanel and Dior have couture to contend with, and houses like Gucci also produce Resort and Pre-Fall collections, Bottega has maintained a comparatively restrained runway calendar, allowing Trotter to slowly carve out her unique space in the fashion universe, still within the gravitational pull of the big houses, but setting the pace of her own orbit.

To find out what Trotter had up her sleeve for this third collection, scroll down for everything that went down at the show.

TYLER RETURNS TO THE FRAY

It’s not often we’re treated to a Tyler, the Creator fashion week appearance. The last time the US rapper sat front row at a show was way back in June 2023, for Pharrell’s SS24 Louis Vuitton menswear collection. Since then, Tyler has jumped ship to Bottega, last year becoming one of the brand’s many new faces alongside Zadie Smith, Dario Argento and Jack Antonoff. Now, at MFW, Trotter has lured him back onto the frow, sitting alongside brand ambassadors Julianne Moore and Jacob Elordi, plus Owen Cooper, Solange Knowles, Audrey Hobert and Jorja Smith.

FASHION IN MOTION

Since starting at the house, Trotter has made fluidity a defining principle of hervision for Bottega. We saw it in the first show, as coats covered in ribbons of fabric swished down the runway and woven leather accessories sprouted rows of tassels. Then Awar Odhiang appeared in that tinsel-like golden “fur”, which was actually recycled fibreglass.

Movement returned for AW26, with Trotter expanding on her flouncy fibreglass creations in a variety of new colours, and now, for SS27, that same principle is back. A pair of black disco flares swished below a feathered puffball skirt, a black trench coat was stitched with shifting layers of white leather tassels, while this season’sIt item is sure to be one of the tasselled skirts that looked as if they’d narrowly survived a shredder, bouncing their way down the runway midway through the collection

SEASONS CHANGE

For Trotter, a Brit living in Milan, the change in seasons is felt much more acutely than it would be in, say, her native Sunderland, and that shifting sense of seasonality became the central idea behind SS27. “Living in Milan makes the passing of seasons particularly felt. Light changes, the city sheds its cloak without becoming bare, and so does the way one lives, moves, dresses,” wrote the designer in this season’s notes. “This collection inhabits that movement. Spring anticipating summer. Summer beginning to bloom. One state quietly mutating into another.”

KENDALL 4 JACOB

Despite its reputation as one of the more understated brands on the schedule, Bottega still manages to keep its fashion fans fed. Cult supermodel Mariacarla Boscono made an appearance in pleated trousers and a lilac silk top, while Dazed cover stars like Mona Tougaard and Odhiang completed Trotter’s uber-chic approach to casting. Closing out the show, however, was Kendall Jenner. Swaddled in a black, toga-esque garment, knotted in a large bow at her left shoulder, Jenner concluded the show by walking past her rumoured partner Elordi, who was looking on from the front row. Though neither the US model nor the Australian actor has confirmed their romance, Elordi could be seen beaming as Jenner walked past, even holding up a little silver digital camera to snap a picture of her. Fashion royalty, it seems?