What happens when a storied fashion house becomes an expansive cultural platform?
Under newly appointed Chief Creative Officer Dario Vitale, Versace is expanding its influence beyond the runway—where the Spring/Summer 2026 collection arrived with an urgent, celebratory vigor—as it builds a space where art and fashion move in tandem: Versace Embodied, a series that sees photographers, painters, filmmakers, performers, and other multi-hyphenate creatives reimagine house codes through their respective mediums.
Chapter One, released ahead of Vitale’s recent Versace debut at Milan Fashion Week, set the stage for the designer’s vivid, Warholian pieces. The compendium includes new sketches by Collier Schorr, a dig through Steven Meisel’s archive, and poetry from Eileen Myles. Here, the house highlights five creatives who are helping to usher in its next chapter, through a combination of art, prose, and provocation.
Binx Walton photographed by Stef Mitchell. All images courtesy of Versace.
Stef Mitchell, photographer
Stef Mitchell is known for her arresting, freshly undone, and brightly youthful photography. Her work frequently appears in publications including i-D, Vogue, Replica, and Nylon. For this Versace commission, she set model Binx Walton astride a motorcycle—clad, of course, in the house’s designs.
Eileen Myles, poet
A longtime writer on queerness, identity, and the politics of sexuality, Eileen Myles arrives in the world of Versace with Put It Back. Between folds of sexual innuendo, the new poem is a meditation on casual intimacy and navigating life’s obstacles. It also serves as a pillar of Versace’s literary output this season, with an urgent and dramatic pre-show letter by critic David Rimanelli continuing the theme, along with sex-forward show notes by British Vogue’s Mahoro Seward.
Collier Schorr, artist and photographer
Collier Schorr, whose work revels in emotional tenderness and carries an air of breathlessness, contributes to Versace Embodied with a series of hand-drawn portraits. The characters portrayed are vulnerable—nude, in repose, or engaged in sensual activities—and embody the house’s winking sexual fantasies.
Camille Vivier, photographer
Photographer Camille Vivier is omnivorous, working across editorial features, gallery exhibitions, and books. (Her titles are Couleurs du Spectre and Veronesi Rose.) For her contribution to Versace Embodied, she pointed her lens at the house’s favorite symbols and motifs, including the bronze cast of Medusa, which graces the facade of the original atelier.
Andrea Modica, photographer
Andrea Modica brings deep expertise in craft and scholarship to the initiative’s roster, with 12 published books, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, and a photography professorship at Drexel University under her belt. For Versace Embodied, she shipped out to southern Italy to capture portraits of young people across the region, including the piercing gaze above.
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