Summer Sets

There's a way to dress well without overthinking it, and it's matching sets. Summer 2026 confirms this decisively, opting for the season's freshest fabrics: cotton, linen and crochet, and tops and skirts, shirts and shorts are born in pairs, sharing print, texture and palette. The result is an instant, carefully considered look, designed to breathe even on the hottest days.Valentino plays the lightness card with linen-blend sets, at times enriched with metallic fibres  or silk twill prints, but the real surprise of the season is the knitted cotton top-and-shorts coordinates: precious workmanship that joins the artisanal spirit of openwork knit to the maison's tailoring rigour, for a romanticism that's never casual. Zimmermann stays true to its resort soul, but tells it in cotton: embroidered shirts, utility blouses and matching shorts move over fluid silhouettes, designed for those who live the summer between beach and city without giving up a couture touch. Dolce & Gabbana turns up the volume with its most iconic floral prints, this time on lightweight cotton: Majolica-style blouses and matching skirts or shorts tell a bold visual story, best balanced with minimal accessories.Pucci brings its own psychedelic signature to ultra-light jersey, with cropped tops and matching trousers or shorts in its most recognisable prints. Chloé confirms the romantic vocation of the matching set with two proposals that capture the spirit of the season well: the gathered floral top paired with cotton terry shorts in the same multicolour print, and the crochet scalloped top-and-shorts duo, cotton worked into openwork lace with wool trim and a scalloped edge that heightens its artisanal soul, here in the Iconic Milk shade. Rounding out the offering is the striped logo top, a piece that lends itself well to being broken up and paired with other pieces from the summer wardrobe.The beauty of summer sets is that the rules can also be broken: nothing stops you from splitting the pair and matching the top of one set with the skirt of another, or wearing just half a set with jeans or linen trousers. But worn together, these pieces tell the story of a summer made of coherence and lightness.