The Spring summer 2026 collection “Ilos” by Casa Preti is born from a reflection on union.
Guided by the surrealist and dadaist imagination of playing with words, “Ilos”, the Italian word “soli” (alone) written backwards, becomes a driver of disruption, a political banner of a movement grounded in union.
“Ilos” exists only if the term is recognized and shared, a possibility that manifests itself only when one is together.
The choice falls on an artistic collaboration with Claire Fontaine: the presentation of a pocket-work bag that becomes both object and extension of the body, and the proposal of a collective performance for the choral writing of the manifesto.
Inspired by Pellizza da Volpedo’s painting “Il quarto stato”, Casa Preti’s collection, narrating the contemporaneity of the image, proposes a “fourth state” in silk and technical fabrics that continuously combine contradiction and proposition. The garments are not conceived as luxury goods, but as an investment in durable, useful, and ethical objects.
In the production and reproduction of the self, being oneself becomes a form of labor, one that requires alliances, networks, and guilds.
A necessary act of investment in love.
Casa Preti and Claire Fontaine invite guests to play “Cadavre exquis” in a collective performance for the choral writing of the manifesto.
First created in 1925 in Paris within the circles of the artistic avant-garde, the game consists of composing a text with several participants, without knowing the entire context. Each player, in turn, writes a word or a sentence, seeing only the last contribution of the previous participant: a collaborative, non-competitive game whose aim is to create a collective and spontaneous work. An exploration of the deep contemporary need to create spaces of union.
Claire Fontaine is a feminist collective artist founded in Paris in 2004 and currently based in Palermo. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art.
Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary society today.
Casa Preti, founded in 2017 in Palermo, is the result of designer Mattia Piazza’s passion for ethical and Sicilian tailoring, interpreted through a contemporary reading process with careful volumetric attention for timeless garments.
The brand draws inspiration from the Caravaggesque painter of the Neapolitan school, Mattia Preti, with garments characterized by clerical lines that, having remained unchanged over time, have reached a level of truth that makes them iconic.
Casa Preti originates from the idea of visionary craftsmanship, responding to presentday challenges with the founding principle of the brand, “good equals beautiful,” which is reflected in a careful supply chain and local production that enhances Italian fabrics. Courtesy is one of the pillars of Casa Preti, in the choice of cuts and in the intimate relationship with the customer. A place where one feels at home, the garments are not just clothes, but places to be lived in, designed to provide a sense of comfort and embrace.
The soft lines of the collections interpret luxury as the possibility of allowing oneself the right time in production and selection, always permitting spaces of freedom, with garments that tell the playfulness and spontaneity of our DNA, through materials and colors that interact with a soul tied to the Italian tailoring tradition and the rigor of forms.
Casa Preti is pleased to announce its collaboration with Wella, as technical sponsor for the presentation of the Spring/Summer 2026 collection “Ilos.”
As an official partner of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Wella will provide its expertise and products in the Hair Care sector.
As official partner of the presentation, ProLab Milano will contribute its expertise and professionals in the Make-up sector, led by key MUA Camilla Conterio.
