Salvatore Santoro 2026 – 2027 Fall/Winter / FW26 at Milan Men’s Fashion Week entitled ROOTED IN TIME
The collection is born from an invisible dialogue between memory and matter, from a silent confrontation between roots and contemporaneity. Time does not flow, it stratifies, it imprints itself like an echo on the skin of things, in the angles of hands, in the memory of objects. Invisible roots intertwine with the present, and every gesture becomes language. Matter preserves, breathes, suggests. There is no distinction between past and contemporary. What has been lives on, survives, transforms, and enters into dialogue with what has yet to happen.
Details Salvatore Santoro FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 – 2027, Volumes open up like spaces to inhabit. Silhouettes that welcome without constraining, forms that breathe with the body that wears them. They are not measurements or proportions, but acts, gestures suspended between function and invention. Leather, selected and followed from its origin, is not a neutral surface. It is an archive of time, light, and secrets. Every cut is born from a hand drawn pattern, every seam follows the inner logic of the material. The fabric folds, stretches, and assembles in a unified and controlled process. In its encounter with the body, it tells stories that no words could contain. Color does not decorate, it evokes. Ochre, burgundy, deep green, powdery light blue. It is not imposed, but emerges from the material itself, from treatments, from the reactions of the leather, from its internal time. Light and shadow interwoven, memories of places and suspended sensations. A silent vocabulary that speaks without words.
Naples pulses through invisible details. A city laboratory where daily life blends with art, where creativity emerges through making, proximity, and inherited craftsmanship. It is an intimate presence in volumes, gestures, and folds of matter. Here past and present touch, overlap, and transform. The supply chain is short and internal, followed at every stage. Each garment begins and ends in the same place, like a thought that is never interrupted.
Construction is not technique, it is embodied thought. Oversized pieces that protect without constraining, iconic lines that become tools of interpretation, silhouettes that transform space. Shearling worked in different consistencies, ultra light, waxed, deep, enters into dialogue with vegetable tanned sheepskin, wool and nylon combinations, and nappa plonge that follows movement with natural ease. Nothing is added, everything is calibrated. Craftsmanship does not speak of skill, it speaks of time, attention, control, of life impressed into gestures, surfaces, and details chosen one by one.
Dressing becomes an experience, a poetic act. Each garment evolves with the person who wears it, changes meaning, and welcomes new stories. It is conceived to last, to improve with use, to resist the erosion of time without losing intensity. Responsibility is not declared, it is inherent in the process, in the choice of materials sourced from the food industry, in the absence of exoticism, in the reduction of waste. A lifetime service extends this philosophy beyond matter, transforming the everyday act into a continuous conversation between past and present, body and memory, gesture and time. Each garment becomes a testimony, a bridge between roots and future, a concrete and intangible gesture, embodied memory.
All Salvatore Santoro FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 – 2027 by the brand. PR Agency Reference Studio.