Sept. 27, 2025

Dolce & Gabbana’s
Pajama Obsession

WORDS ANDERS CHRISTIAN MADSEN

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Anders Christian Madsen reviews the Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2026 show.

A meta fashion moment played out at the Dolce & Gabbana show as Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci entered the building dressed as Miranda Priestly and Nigel Kipling from The Devil Wears Prada. Filming for the movie’s upcoming sequel, they remained in character, their poker faces never revealing what they thought of the pajama-centric collection that unfolded before their eyes. The follow-up to June’s Pyjama Boys proposal, the women’s counterpart evolved the designers’ adaptation of sleepwear into the everyday and evening wardrobes. Cotton pajamas were fabulously embroidered with gems and sequins, and black lingerie — the native language of Dolce & Gabbana — injected the loose silhouette with a stricter, more glamorous energy.

Speaking about the similarly themed men’s show back in June, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana — who weren’t available for comment this season — framed their interest in sleepwear as the spontaneous instinct for dressing of new generations, who are growing up without the dress codes of the old world. The same sentiment was illustrated on Saturday afternoon at the Metropol, as the designers mixed the boudoir wardrobe with masculine tailoring, oversized outerwear, tuxedo elements, and leopard prints. Nowadays, anything goes. But the show, titled Pyjama Obsession, was also symptomatic of a current desire to relax, not in the casual sense, but in the crucial sense: to turn down a social and political situation that reaches new stress levels for all of us every day.

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Watching the show, and the way the designers styled sleepwear with day- and eveningwear, you couldn’t help but smile at the storytelling: the idea of someone leaving the house “dressed in haste,” as John Galliano calls it — a coat thrown over pajama bottoms and a black lace body. There’s something so glamorous about that idea — undone, casual, nonchalant — and so star-like, like the time a judge ordered Michael Jackson to appear in court against his will, and he turned up in a tuxedo jacket and floral pajama bottoms with all his bodyguards in tow. At Dolce & Gabbana, the approach added a much-welcomed element of humor to the show in a time when few of the brands that used to deliver that are still doing it. Dreamy.