The poetry of the cut, the beauty that mends the wounds of body and soul.
From October 15th to 18th, 2025, the Mercedes-Benz Bucharest Fashion Week opened its new edition with the inaugural show of Romeo Gigli, special guest of the event.
Under the creative direction of Alessandro De Benedetti, the maison presented a curated selection from the Spring–Summer 2026 collection “Severance”, unfolding a visual narrative that intertwined lyricism, architecture, and introspection.
“Severance” is born from a cut, a separation that reassembles itself into beauty.
It is the representation of an inner fracture that becomes material, a gesture that turns into aesthetic language.
Liquid silk drapes, trilobed organza crossed by colonial stripes, and embroidered surfaces in twisted rope leaves map out an intimate geography of the body, where every seam is a memory resurfacing through fabric.
Ergonomic structures, hidden crinolines, and restitched hems evoke a femininity suspended between strength and vulnerability, between discipline and lightness.
Among the key looks on the runway: the Cloud Busting dress, in powder silk voile, enveloping the body like a moving thought; the Willow dress, in black or ivory reed lace, a ritual of strength and purity; the Violante dress, in coral and sky tones, an ethereal construction of rebirth; and the Sofia Coppola jacket, in white canvas lined with fil coupé, where cinematic composure meets the delicate precision of the sartorial gesture.
The color palette — butter, sky, coral cream, sand, ivory, and black — paints an emotional landscape where color does not dominate but rather accompanies, caresses, and reveals.
The selection of looks presented in Bucharest embodied the philosophy of Severance: a narrative balanced between rigor and fragility, memory and metamorphosis.
Voile and organza transparencies, rendered in pearl grey and ivory, conversed with the sculptural volumes of butter yellows and coral creams, while layerings in sand and sky hues restored a painterly vision of contemporary femininity.
The dialogue between sartorial pieces and fluid silhouettes, deconstructed tailleurs, dismantled trenches, asymmetric dresses, and shapes suspended between garment and architecture, defined an emotional geography that inhabits the body more than it dresses it.
Each outfit, from the reed lace and butter voile dress to the sky canvas trench, up to the sculptural coral and yellow gowns, became a fragment of an intimate narrative: that of the cut which separates and reunites, of the gesture that transforms fragility into form.
Alessandro De Benedetti’s aesthetic for Romeo Gigli continues to move between memory and metamorphosis, exploring the relationship between form and feeling, between body and representation.
The participation as special guest at the Mercedes-Benz Bucharest Fashion Week confirms the maison’s narrative coherence and intellectual strength, renewing its sartorial language into a poetic and contemporary reflection on identity.
