For Summer 2026, Anthony Vaccarello envisions Saint Laurent as a study in suspended elegance—somewhere between Paris and Fire Island—where desire becomes language and clarity eclipses spectacle. The collection pays quiet tribute to a lost generation of artists and to Yves Saint Laurent’s 1974 withdrawal, not in nostalgia but in continuation. In this dry light, silhouettes are sculpted, not exaggerated; garments breathe with ease as silk and nylon trace the body in hushed tones of sand, salt, ochre, moss, and pool blue. Shorts echo the past without referencing it, and ambiguity sharpens into refined sensuality. Against the installation “clinamen” by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot—porcelain bowls adrift in water, drawing unseen orbits—the collection moves without choreography, without declaration. Here, nothing is performed, everything is held. Vaccarello offers not homage but presence; not artifice but essence; not the night, but the full exposure of day.