Capri linens, marble afternoons and a slow walk through Trastevere — our Spring 2026 story unfolds across three Roman neighbourhoods, where the city itself becomes the muse.
Rome doesn’t ask to be photographed. It simply waits, knowing the camera will come.
We arrived in early March, when the mornings still hold the cold of February but the light has already turned. Our team set up at a small palazzo near Piazza Mattei, the kind of address you only find through a friend of a friend, with a marble courtyard the colour of old paper.
The collection moves between two impulses: the precision of tailoring and the surrender of silk. Our Milano office drew every silhouette twice, and our cutters in Laleli cut the second one. The second line is always the one we keep.
Mornings on Via Giulia
We shot the opening look on a quiet Sunday, when Via Giulia is empty enough that you can hear the wheels of a single Vespa from three blocks away. The lavender silk dress moves with the wind in a way that feels less like fashion and more like memory.
A long lunch in Trastevere
Later, at a trattoria with no sign on the door, we passed plates of carciofi and watched the editor of an Italian magazine argue politely with a stylist about the right shade of cream. The argument was, I am told, eventually settled in our favour.
A wardrobe should feel inherited, not bought.
The full lookbook follows over the coming weeks, one location at a time. Subscribe to the Zanardi Letter to receive each chapter as it is published.
