Surreal Summer | Season Trends
Imagine a summer that exists only in the mind. Imagine blinding sunlight making everything look artificial. Imagine flourishing gardens with fake grass, giant flowers and rubber giraffes. Imagine a calm sea, an orange curtain and a fried egg hanging on a line. A hand coming out of a shell, a plastic eye and swimmers in spike heels. Luminous landscapes break through boundaries into incredible surreal visions, like ones Miró, Magritte and Dalí would have produced if they had had digital tools and artificial intelligence. Scenes of ordinary and extraordinary madness reproduce the senseless flow of the unconscious, thanks to new multimedia languages. Strange animals, limbs and unimaginable characters are randomly arranged, like crazy splinters, the result of an imagination out of control. An array of left free objects, thoughts and words construct absurd visions charged with a subtle, sharp irony. It is a summer of colours and miracles, a non-place where anything can happen, where any thing can join with another, without disappointing expectations. Details taken out of context, foreign bodies; in a dream-like yet entirely plausible atmosphere, elements taken out of their usual reality appear and disappear, merge and blend, generating both surprise and hilarity. The dead calm of an unreal sea, the turquoise of an illusory swimming pool, together with the green of chimera gardens, act as recurring themes in this plastic oasis, in this modern, upside-down world.
Research: Anna Maroncelli for Spring/Summer 2026 season.
