dear louise
on louise trotter, bottega’s quiet revolution, and the rise of grown-woman fashion
A shift in fashion had been pending for a long time, but no one could have predicted how large it would be. The Spring/Summer 2026 season has arrived with an almost absurd number of new creative directors: sixteen debuts across the world’s biggest houses. It is the kind of industry overhaul that only happens once a generation, and this time it is happen…