Emilio Pucci's creative director Camille Miceli is investing in joy. This weekend, we hit up the breathtaking town of Syracuse, Sicily for a Spring 2026 Emilio Pucci show unlike anything else you’ve seen in fashion lately. Pulling up to the Neapolis Archeological Park, a landmark known for its extraordinary natural beauty and historic ruins of the Greek Roman city of Syracuse, we already knew the show space would be next level, and the “Grotta dei Cordari” or “cavern of rope-makers” exceeded all expectations.
Talking about the show venue, Camille Miceli explained that choosing Sicily as the location didn’t only come from her personal love of the place, but also Emilio Pucci’s. “Emilio [Pucci] had done, in the ‘50s, a print of Sicily,” she told us. “And Sicily is booming at the moment, so I thought I’d like to take people there, so at least they might discover something.” Above all else, though, Camille wanted to capture a sense of nature in the show space for this season.
The huge cave-like space, once quarried by the ancient Greeks, featured rows of silver seats beneath pinkish rocky ceilings and stalactite-like formations, which overlooked a still pool of groundwater below. This set the perfect scene for Emilio Pucci’s collection, which Camille Miceli told us was inspired by a myriad of sources. “There’s 90s Ibiza clubbing, there is the Olafur Eliasson exhibition at the Tate Modern, and then there is the bohemian side, and the healthiness of the beginning of the day when you do your [morning] yoga. And also Scarface Michelle Pfeiffer - only her!”
The collection fit all of these aesthetics and more, revealing Ibiza beach club-ready knitted dresses and swimwear with nostalgic ‘90s accessories, a warm, glowy colour palette of sunrise pinks and golds which felt very Olafur Eliasson, and skin-tight, wearable looks that could easily elevate the morning yoga experience. The collection ranged from daywear, consisting of chic knit dresses and puffer jackets, to going out fits, like sequin-embroidered ruched skirts and feather-like glittering tops.
With such a beautifully diverse collection, we had to ask Camille Miceli the time old question: who is the ‘Pucci girl’ today. Her response was that, “There is not only one Pucci girl. That’s what I love about it. It’s a family thing. It’s a girl, it’s the mother, it’s the daughter, it’s the grandma, you know? It’s a family.”
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