Trotter's Bottega SS27 Doubles Tote Sizes, Weaves Paper

Hypebae and Malay Mail report Louise Trotter's third Bottega Veneta show doubled tote sizes and turned crushed cardboard into the set itself.

Bottega Veneta presented its Spring/Summer 2027 collection at Milan Fashion Week on Saturday, September 26, in a stark white venue designed to embody lightness. According to Hypebae, the house tapped artist Illya Goldman Gubin to create custom seating installations from crushed cardboard, with hand-reshaped paper structures mirroring the brand's signature woven Intrecciato leather textures — even the paper poster invitations were individually creased by Goldman Gubin and house staff. Front-row attendees, as reported by both outlets, included Julianne Moore, Jacob Elordi, Tyler, The Creator and Solange, while models walked the runway in relaxed proportions built to move effortlessly against the skin.

Malay Mail frames this as Louise Trotter's latest show a year after her acclaimed debut, noting she expanded her palette by infusing suits and dresses with yellow, red, purple and floral prints while keeping pieces structured yet light. The outlet reports she doubled the size of the leather and raffia tote bags and continued playing with woven leather on a men's trench coat and tall women's boots. Hypebae adds that precision tailoring underwent a soft evolution, stripping back rigid structures, with blurred gender boundaries letting masculine and feminine cuts mingle and raw, hand-stitched details left exposed across every piece.

The specifics fans are discussing come straight from Hypebae's review: footwear included a new rubber ballet flat in multiple colors, tall white Intrecciato boots, and loafers with large jewels. Among the voluminous bags, a standout was a burgundy handbag with soft butterflies stitched loosely across its exterior. Malay Mail reports that American star Kylie Jenner closed the show draped in a voluminous black dress — while noting Kendall Jenner walked in it, per Hypebae's coverage — giving Trotter's third Milan showing a celebrity-cast finish that matched the airy, featherlight leather collection itself.

The stakes here are Trotter's momentum. Malay Mail calls her debut a year ago acclaimed and reads this collection as a deliberate expansion of her range — bigger bags, brighter prints — while keeping the house's leathercraft at the center. Hypebae's framing of 'third time's the weave' suggests the Intrecciato motif is now the through-line of her tenure, extended from runway to seating, press materials and invitations. The show lands amid a busy Milan slate the outlets place it within: Malay Mail's roundup also covers Dolce & Gabbana's Sicilian-wardrobe collection and MSGM's Mario Schifano-inspired pop prints, and Hypebae points readers toward its Moschino debut review — meaning Bottega's lighter vision now sits alongside Demna's Gucci as the season's talking point.