LAUD END PRAUD 2026 during Milan Fashion Week entitled QUEER COSMO on Saturday 20 June 2026 at BASE Milano Via Ambrogio Bergognone da Fossano 34, Milan.
BASE Milano welcomes the sixth edition of LAUD END PRAUD, the independent project conceived by Andrea Semeghini aka VANADIO23 that brings together fashion, culture, performance and queer activism in a collective event where creativity and participation become concrete tools for inclusion and social change.
The LAUD END PRAUD 2026 edition, titled “QUEER COSMO”, imagines a fluid, non-hierarchical universe in which identities, bodies and relationships move freely in constant transformation. The concept draws on the cosmos as a metaphor for plurality, decentring and possibility — envisioning new forms of expression beyond the binary.
“With QUEER COSMO, we want to challenge the way we have always looked at the world and at identity. We deconstruct the idea that there is a single centre, a single correct way of being, loving or belonging. In our universe nothing is fixed: bodies transform, attract, drift apart, change direction — just like celestial bodies. Every identity follows its own trajectory, within a system made of connections, relationships and possibilities.”— Andrea Semeghini, founder of VANADIO23 and creative director of LAUD END PRAUD.
More than a runway show, LAUD END PRAUD is an open space for creative exchange: a microphone handed to artists, designers and performers who choose to put their work at the service of a shared cause. Each participant contributes through their own aesthetic and identity research, building together a collective cultural experience where fashion, activism and performance coexist.
The LAUD END PRAUD 2026 event takes place on Saturday 20 June 2026 at BASE Milano, starting at 4:00 PM, with a programme that includes: talks and interviews, performances and DJ sets, 6:30 PM: fashion show, to follow live show with stand-up and drag performances.
The runway show (6:30 PM) takes shape through eight capsule collections, each associated with one of the eight planets of the solar system. Every designer interprets a planet through their own aesthetic and sensibility, composing a system of different worlds that coexist within the same expanding universe. MERCURY — capsule by IED (Teresa Giannattasio, Aurora Perinelli, Filippo Sansa, Luca Togni) / VENUS — Pecora Nera / EARTH — Venerdì Pomeriggio / MARS — BERGIE by Giorgia Andreazza / JUPITER — Be Nina / SATURN — Moja Rowa / URANUS — VIENMNSUONNO / NEPTUNE — Simon Cracker
All images LAUD END PRAUD 2026 by the brand. PR Agency Maximilian linz. Credit to : Styling direction Roberta Astarita / Casting direction Maria Aminta Daniele & Dani Marie Bordignon, assistants Alessandro Alisei & Massimo di Stefano / Soundtrack Maria Aminta Daniele & Manuela Bagnato / Make-up will be handled by MAC Cosmetics, a pioneering brand in the promotion of inclusion, representation and freedom of expression, joining LAUD END PRAUD for the first time. A natural collaboration between two realities that believe in creativity as a concrete tool for social impact. The looks presented on the runway be auctioned at Fondazione Sozzani, with all proceeds donated to Sportello Trans di ALA Milano Onlus, in support of the transgender community through psychological assistance, employment guidance, legal support and social inclusion programmes. LAUD END PRAUD reaffirms its nature as an independent queer cultural space, where collective creativity becomes a tool for community, political expression and social transformation.