The Fall/Winter 2026 collection for Marni was the debut for newly appointed Creative Director Meryll Rogge. In the days leading up to the show, the Marni Instagram posted teasers that really caught my eye.
I mean how “happy mundane” is that?! Love it. Also, the teaser visual had a cool calendar graphic and a note from Meryll.
Needless to say I was super excited to see the presentation, and it did not disappoint.
The colors, quirky mix of textures, details and patterns… Yes please. However, this post is really to take a moment to give special props to the incredible set. It was created by the design studio, Formafantasma.
Formafantasma called the set “Dioramas of Everyday Life” and explains, “…The project reflects on how fashion operates within everyday life and how the format of the runway both frames and reshapes that reality…
“The spatial concept is structured around a series of mirrored surfaces, partially hand-painted with fragments drawn from quotidian life: a car headlight, an office chair, leftovers on a table, a CCTV camera, an open tab on a computer. These elements are deliberately unremarkable. They point to peripheral details that accumulate in daily environments without demanding attention.
By combining reflection and painting, the mirrors operate simultaneously as images and as spatial instruments. They do not simply reflect the models and audience; they situate them within a field where representation and presence become indistinguishable. Hand-painted fragments of ordinary life overlap with live reflections. The real and its image occupy the same surface. In this convergence, garments are neither isolated as spectacle nor reduced to documentation. They exist within a layered visual condition that mirrors contemporary experience, where lived moments and their representations continuously merge.”
I love the all the dark wood with the pale yellow, but the real stars are those paintings! They were done by Matilde Mosterts de Banfield. Super excited to see what the official campaign images will be like when they are released in the Fall.
More details on the set design by Formafantasma here.