The Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2026 collection by Andreas Kronthaler, shown at the Institut de France, felt like a grand fresco on the passage of time — rich, chaotic, and deeply human. True to Vivienne’s spirit, Kronthaler doesn’t imitate — he carries it forward.

It had everything that makes the house so great: Vivienne’s signature draping, the subversion of good taste, and that unique way of blending nobility with provocation. A collection alive with energy, disorder, and the sensuality of fabrics.

The silhouettes shifted between unruly Victorian heroines and poetic dandies: floral prints adding multicolored touches to dresses and skirts, tailored jackets with exaggerated collars, and sheer fabrics used with purpose. Bold proportions and volumes gave the pieces a raw energy.

The collection felt like a hymn to the beauty of imperfection, to the sensuality of imbalance. Each piece seemed to say: “I was made by hand, with heart, with chaos.”

Andreas Kronthaler doesn’t freeze Vivienne Westwood’s legacy — he lets it breathe differently: more intimate, almost melancholic. He doesn’t try to repeat her vocabulary, but to write new chapters from it, between homage and reinvention