Vivienne Westwood Fall 2026 Ad Campaign

Review of Vivienne Westwood Fall 2026 Ad Campaign with Photographer Juergen Teller with models Ciccolina, Yunosuke, Adeshina, Roland, Matilde, Aristide, Claus, Evelyn, Roxane, Paola, Marianna, Roberto, Talona

Vivienne Westwood’s Autumn-Winter 2026/27 campaign relocates the house’s storytelling to Barlassina, Italy, where Andreas Kronthaler and longtime collaborator Juergen Teller shot inside the showroom of Belloni, a family-run furniture maker with more than a century and a half of history. The cast blends agency names with street-cast faces and the Italian performer Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, threading a note of local specificity through a collection Kronthaler has said was shaped by his own move to Milan.

Teller’s camera moves through salons, studies, and boudoirs furnished with Rococo revival giltwood pieces, Art Deco-inspired cabinetry, and richly upholstered textiles, each room offering its own register of drama. Dark felted tailoring cut with flashes of red is staged against gold damask settees, while draped dresses and structured Harris Tweed coats reveal seaming and stockings against trompe-l’œil paneling. Corseted knitwear holds its own beside Neoclassical furniture, the clash of pattern and period piece becoming an argument for coexistence rather than a study in mismatch. The house has framed the cast’s mix of professional and unfamiliar faces as a contemporary Canterbury Tales, characters passing through Belloni’s interiors the way pilgrims might pass through a shared road, an echo of the Chaucer references already shaping this season’s runway collection.

What distinguishes this outing from recent Westwood campaigns, Teller’s raw, backstage energy for Fall 2025 among them, is its deliberate formality. The Belloni setting asks the clothes to hold their own against genuine craftsmanship rather than an empty backdrop, and the corsetry, exposed seams, and off-kilter tailoring answer that challenge by sharpening the house’s established codes rather than reinventing them. The choice of Cicciolina, an unconventional casting decision for a campaign this polished, keeps the imagery from settling into pure luxury tableau. The campaign also lands at a moment when the house’s leadership has drawn public scrutiny, following Cora Corré’s departure from the company and her public call for chief executive Carlo D’Amario’s removal over his handling of the Vivienne Foundation’s role in the brand’s legacy. Against that backdrop, a campaign this settled in its craftsmanship and personal in its narrative reads as a statement of continuity from Kronthaler himself.

Vivienne Westwood’s Autumn-Winter 2026/27 campaign trades chaos for control without losing the eccentricity that defines the house. It is less a departure than a refinement, one that lets a new setting sharpen codes that have long been in place.