The Fendi Resort 2026 collection draws inspiration from a collection a picture found by Silvia Venturini Fendi from the early eighties in Monaco with Karl Lagerfeld. The image featured her in an 80s-style party dress with monochrome polka dots and a ruffled peplum, an outfit she fondly remembered wearing at iconic nightclubs of the era. The original polka dot pattern from her vintage dress evolved into an abstract animal print recalling the nocturnal moth, thus became the focal point of inspiration for this collection.

Fendi adapted Lagerfeld’s polka dots from the original party dress into a pattern that was “an arty, painterly animalier. The dots are irregular because I was thinking about moths; a nocturnal animal that comes alive in the night and which is drawn to the light.”

That pattern was further adapted into a richly complicated moth motif whose imagined genetic melange was integrated via intarsia in shearlings, prints into shirred shirts and pleated skirts, and embroidery into sequin party dresses. It was also integrated into an especially lush accessories offer for the season, which ran from cute dog bag charms to embroidered Baguette and printed Spy bags, as well as a new—so new it is not yet formally named—adjustable tote style. There were also Baby Baguettes, which Fendi described as: “a little pouch, more a slice of baguette.”

Elsewhere roomy tailoring played against cuffed shorts and ruffled ra-ra skirts, while the crisp silky taffeta of the season was used to cut attractive pants, dresses, and bombers featuring military-origin double zipper inserts. The Fendi double-F logo was gently overstitched into handsome, washed denim daywear, and was about as branded as this from-the-heart Fendi collection got.