Cavalli SS27 Goes All-In on Animal Prints and Low Riders

Fausto Puglisi's Roberto Cavalli Spring 2027 show spotlighted archival deep cuts and party separates, with Cardi B front row.

Roberto Cavalli presented its Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear show in Milan on Thursday, September 24, 2026. According to Vogue's Nicole Phelps, creative director Fausto Puglisi went "all-in" on the house's signature animal prints, velvet devorés, and embroideries, spiking them with what she calls a clubby edge. The Associated Press reports the collection piled animal prints, florals, and feathers onto exposed skin and embellished denim, with flowing robes topping low-rise jeans worn with thongs and bra tops.

The surprise is the mood shift. Vogue notes the kaleidoscope of patterns and textures stood out in a fashion week dominated by black, white, and beige, and quotes an observer at an industry dinner saying "Milan is partying again" after years of quiet-luxury practicality. Puglisi told the AP backstage that the collection is "about joy," saying Cavalli jeans are objects you put in your wardrobe and feel better for owning — a pointed contrast to the restraint that has ruled recent seasons.

The collections details align across both outlets. Vogue says the focus was separates: miniskirts, bike shorts, halter tops, hot pants, lace-edged camis, and embellished low-rider jeans with strappy thongs peeking above waistbands. The AP adds cropped jeans glittering with crystals and feathers, a mesh minidress erupting into crinkled golden ruffles, and chiffon skirts with long shredded hemlines, with animal prints pieced together in a joyful clash suggesting, per AP, a rumble in the jungle.

The Associated Press reports Cardi B was thronged by photographers as she arrived in an animal-print coat, dark sunglasses, and a blowout, taking her seat beside stylist Kollin Carter. Vogue separately frames the show as riding a broader archival Cavalli moment, noting a rare stash of the designer's 1970s printed leathers was exhibited and sold at the vintage store Reracked in upstate New York, with 2000s-era Just Cavalli pieces surfacing on resale.

Per Vogue, Puglisi's five years at the label have occasionally veered far from the house's glamazon standbys, so this full-throated return to Cavalli codes of sex, glamour, and animal instinct — as AP puts it — is a bet that party dressing is back commercially. His backstage reference list, which Vogue says included Courtney Love, Beverly Hills 90210, Zendaya, a stolen Antonello da Messina masterpiece, and Todd Gray's "Octavia's Gaze" at LACMA, suggests the maximalist direction will continue; retailers and the resale market will show whether buyers follow.