Summer Totes & Mules 2026: Valentino & Jacquemus
Structure takes a step back in this edit. Neither house abandons its identity here — Valentino still runs its V-hardware through everything, Jacquemus still builds around the sculptural proportions that made Le Chiquito recognizable from across a room — but the register shifts. These are the pieces built for the part of summer that doesn’t involve an office or an evening: straw over leather, mules over heels, totes that hold sand as easily as they hold anything else.
Valentino: Straw, Raffia and Soft Structure
VLogo Vanity Bag keeps some of the house’s usual discipline — a compact case shape, the V-hardware present but not shouting — while the proportions stay small enough to function as a beach companion rather than a daily bag. DeVain Bag moves further into evening-adjacent territory, a clutch silhouette with a name and shape that suggest the house is still thinking about occasion even inside a summer edit.
Straw Tote Bag is the clearest seasonal statement in the group. Straw at Valentino’s construction level isn’t a cost-cutting material choice — the weave is tight, the proportions considered, and the result works exactly the way a beach tote should while still reading as the house that made it. Mini Panthea Bag closes the bag section with the most structured silhouette here, a smaller shoulder bag that holds its shape even when everything else in this edit is intentionally soft.
Valentino – VLogo Vanity Bag
Valentino – DeVain Bag
Valentino – Straw Tote Bag
Valentino – Mini Panthea Bag
Valentino: Anne Knotted Mules
Anne Knotted Mules take the same softness that runs through the Valentino bags here and apply it to footwear. The knot detail at the front is the kind of construction choice that photographs as effortless and isn’t — the leather has to hold the shape without looking engineered. Flat enough for actual walking, considered enough that they don’t read as a basic mule with a designer label attached.
Valentino – Anne Knotted Mules
Jacquemus: Turismo in Two Registers
Le Turismo and The Tourismo are close enough in name to cause confusion and different enough in execution to justify covering both. Le Turismo keeps the shoulder-bag proportions the house has built its recent reputation on — structured leather handles, a shape that reads as considered rather than casual despite the easy summer palette. The Tourismo pushes toward something looser: same handle logic, a silhouette that sits more casually against the body, built for a day that involves more walking than sitting.
Le Panier Soli in the small size closes the bag section at its most literal beach-ready — straw construction, leather trim, a scaled-down version of the format the house has been refining across several seasons. Smaller means less capacity and more portability, which for a beach bag is usually the right trade.
Jacquemus – Le Turismo
Jacquemus – The Tourismo
Jacquemus: Les Mules Cubisto
Les Mules Cubisto brings the house’s sculptural instinct to footwear the same way Le Chiquito brought it to bags. The shape is geometric rather than conventional — closer to an architectural object that happens to function as a mule than a mule that happens to look interesting. It’s the piece in this edit most likely to start a conversation rather than simply complete an outfit.
Jacquemus – Les Mules Cubisto
Available at Fashion Gallery
Valentino and Jacquemus are both part of the permanent edit at Fashion Gallery in Porto Montenegro — 400 m² across two floors, the largest multi-brand luxury selection on the Adriatic coast. All pieces in this edit are in-store now.
