THE POETRY OF WHITE
VENICE – NEW YEAR’S CONCERT 2026
THE POETRY OF WHITE
VENICE – NEW YEAR’S CONCERT 2026
Laura Biagiotti returns to La Fenice
On 1 January 2026, Biagiotti returns to La Fenice with a new tribute: the costumes for the New Year’s Concert, worn by étoiles Eleonora Abbagnato and Friedemann Vogel, alongside the dancers of the Ballet of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The New Year’s Concert, broadcast on Rai 1, is an annual cultural event that alternates live performances by the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice with dance sequences filmed in iconic locations across the city. A meeting where dance is dressed in poetry, white becomes movement, emotion and rebirth—and Venice stands as the ideal stage for this story.
Laura Biagiotti returns to La Fenice
On 1 January 2026, Biagiotti returns to La Fenice with a new tribute: the costumes for the New Year’s Concert, worn by étoiles Eleonora Abbagnato and Friedemann Vogel, alongside the dancers of the Ballet of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The New Year’s Concert, broadcast on Rai 1, is an annual cultural event that alternates live performances by the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice with dance sequences filmed in iconic locations across the city. A meeting where dance is dressed in poetry, white becomes movement, emotion and rebirth—and Venice stands as the ideal stage for this story.
A true total work of art
The enduring bond between Biagiotti and culture, art and dance is renewed once again, taking shape as a true total work of art. Conceived by Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna together with the choreographer Diego Tortelli, the project brings music, dance and fashion into a single, sublime harmony. Biagiotti’s vision intertwines once more with the magic of Venice, offering an idea of beauty that is timeless and without borders.
Laura and Lavinia Biagiotti’s love for Venice has deep roots. Numerous collections—and a highly successful fragrance—have drawn inspiration from the wonders of La Serenissima. Yet it was an act of patronage thirty years ago that forged an unbreakable bond between Biagiotti and Venice: in 1996, following the devastating fire that destroyed Teatro La Fenice, Laura Biagiotti donated the Grand Curtain to the theatre.
A true total work of art
The enduring bond between Biagiotti and culture, art and dance is renewed once again, taking shape as a true total work of art. Conceived by Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna together with the choreographer Diego Tortelli, the project brings music, dance and fashion into a single, sublime harmony. Biagiotti’s vision intertwines once more with the magic of Venice, offering an idea of beauty that is timeless and without borders.
Laura and Lavinia Biagiotti’s love for Venice has deep roots. Numerous collections—and a highly successful fragrance—have drawn inspiration from the wonders of La Serenissima. Yet it was an act of patronage thirty years ago that forged an unbreakable bond between Biagiotti and Venice: in 1996, following the devastating fire that destroyed Teatro La Fenice, Laura Biagiotti donated the Grand Curtain to the theatre.
Where fashion and art become movement
This project seals the dialogue between fashion and art and represents a journey into the Maison’s identity. For this special occasion, Biagiotti places its purest codes at the centre: white and cashmere, iconic elements of the brand’s language. White becomes light, rebirth, Venetian spirituality; cashmere wraps the body like a gesture of love, a gentle caress that restores dance to its most authentic freedom.
Each costume is conceived not as a stage garment, but as an extension of movement. Silhouettes open and close, knot and release. Knots—the leitmotif of the costumes—embrace the dancers’ bodies in a fluid continuity, free from constraint, where the garment does not impose but accompanies.
Where fashion and art become movement
This project seals the dialogue between fashion and art and represents a journey into the Maison’s identity. For this special occasion, Biagiotti places its purest codes at the centre: white and cashmere, iconic elements of the brand’s language. White becomes light, rebirth, Venetian spirituality; cashmere wraps the body like a gesture of love, a gentle caress that restores dance to its most authentic freedom.
Each costume is conceived not as a stage garment, but as an extension of movement. Silhouettes open and close, knot and release. Knots—the leitmotif of the costumes—embrace the dancers’ bodies in a fluid continuity, free from constraint, where the garment does not impose but accompanies.
Eleonora Abbagnato:
three poetic moments in white
For Eleonora Abbagnato, Biagiotti envisioned three poetic moments. A white gauze dress, so light it seems made of air, creating clouds of fabric with every step. A pavé of Swarovski crystals on platinum silk—worn beneath a cashmere hooded cape to enhance the interplay of textures—illuminates the stage like a galaxy of micro-reflections. Finally, a white double-fabric tailored suit designed for the televised opening, where rigor and delicacy coexist.
Sculptural elegance for
Friedemann Vogel
The language created for Friedemann Vogel is more sculptural, almost architectural. He wears a look composed of white double cashmere trousers and a white cashmere sweater featuring a bold, three-dimensional knitted knot. A balance of strength, elegance and expressive power.
The ballet: a choreography of knots and light
For the women of the Ballet, Biagiotti imagines a choreography of interlacings and knots: white cashmere and silk bodysuits that wrap the body and enhance movement, embellished with Swarovski crystals and paired with cashmere leg warmers worked in braided patterns. The collection also includes cashmere jumpsuits and vestal-inspired dresses: sculptural bodices over white silk voile gowns, light and ethereal, entirely hand-embroidered. The men of the Ballet wear short white cashmere and silk jumpsuits, molded to the body and traced by a central knot that defines the torso, while small crystal inserts light up the chest and arms like cardinal points of a moving body.
“This collection—true dance couture created for the stage—tells the story of a Venice seen through the Biagiotti imagination: white, luminous, suspended between water and sky. My mother Laura and I have always loved and supported Venice, a place of the heart that connects us to many projects, including the donation of the Grand Curtain of Teatro La Fenice. A gesture of beauty and rebirth, renewed each time the curtain rises.”
Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna.
“This collection—true dance couture created for the stage—tells the story of a Venice seen through the Biagiotti imagination: white, luminous, suspended between water and sky. My mother Laura and I have always loved and supported Venice, a place of the heart that connects us to many projects, including the donation of the Grand Curtain of Teatro La Fenice. A gesture of beauty and rebirth, renewed each time the curtain rises.”
Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna.
