How a collection is seen can be almost as important as what is being seen. For Winter 2026, Louise Trotter presents her second collection for Bottega Veneta through eight different photographic perspectives, developed over eight days in February and shot both on and away from the runway. The starting point is a line from John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice (1851–53): “For every distance from the eye there is a peculiar kind of beauty”. It is an apt premise for a collection concerned with the way clothes occupy space, move and reveal themselves at different distances.

Eight photographers — Chris Rhodes, Cristina Stohle, James Ari King, Kira Bunse, Nicole Maria Winkler, Piotr Niepsuj, Rosie Harriet Ellis and Sam Penn — bring their own visual languages to the project. Their work is gathered in Zine 002, which documents not only the collection but also something of the process and inspiration behind it. Rather than reducing Winter 2026 to a single campaign image, Bottega Veneta allows the collection to remain open to interpretation, with each photographer finding a different entry point into Trotter’s work.

At closer range, the details come forward; from further away, volume and movement take over. That tension runs through the project, reflecting the balance between structure and softness that informs the collection. Some images feel almost intimate, while others give the clothes a more performative presence. It is a useful distinction: garments do not behave in quite the same way when they are being examined as objects and when they are moving through space.

Louise Trotter’s second collection for Bottega Veneta is therefore presented less as a finished statement than as something with room to shift. Zine 002 becomes part of that proposition, bringing together eight distinct ways of looking without forcing them into a single visual language. The result feels considered rather than overly controlled, allowing the photography to expose different aspects of the work while keeping its central tensions intact.

Perhaps that is what makes the project more interesting than a conventional collection campaign. Winter 2026 does not arrive with one definitive image, but with a series of them, each changing slightly according to proximity, movement and perspective. Bottega Veneta gives the collection space to be looked at properly — close enough to notice the detail, far enough to understand the whole.

Take a look at the Bottega Veneta Winter 2026 below: