Versace’s La Vacanza campaign and Givenchy’s Voyou bucket lead May launches

The loudest workwear message of May was not a return to stiff suiting. It was tailoring that looked touched, lived in, and a little less armored, with Versace and Givenchy each pushing that idea from a different angle. Versace’s La Vacanza 2026 campaign, Versace Obsessed, landed on May 7 with Steven Meisel behind the camera, and the whole thing felt like a polished fever dream: intimate bedroom vignettes, walls papered with Meisel-shot Versace ads from 1993 to 2004, and a cast that included Betsy Gaghan, Ella McCutcheon, Sabryna Oliveira, Alvise Candida and Jackson Roodman. With Karl Templer on wardrobe, Pat McGrath on makeup and Guido Palau on hair, the clothes read as more than resort fantasy. They made a case for denim shirting, printed silk separates and vivid tailoring as the new soft-power uniform.

That is the part worth paying attention to for office dressing. Denim shirting is the most realistic piece in the mix, because it gives you structure without the starch of a crisp white button-down. Printed silk is the next move, but only if it is worn with discipline, tucked into trousers or layered under a blazer so it reads as polish, not party. Vivid suiting is the punchline, and it is the least likely to become universal, but the idea behind it matters: color is being used as a tailoring tool, not just decoration. Versace’s whole setup, with archive imagery from 1993 to 2004 surrounding the 2026 collection, turns nostalgia into a design argument. The clothes are looking backward in order to make the present feel sharper.

Givenchy came at the same mood from the accessories side with the Voyou Bucket, released on May 7 as part of the Autumn-Winter 2026 pre-collection. The bag extends the Voyou family and is positioned as a natural fit for Sarah Burton’s vision at the house, but the detail that matters is the single leather drawstring closure. That one move lets the bag shift from slouchy to more structured, which is exactly where the market is headed: less rigidity, more control. The Voyou line first appeared on the spring-summer 2023 runway, and the bucket version debuted in Burton’s Fall 2026 show. It is being offered in ivory, light pink, chocolate, black and cobalt blue, with reported retail at $1,990 in at least one market.

That price puts it squarely in luxury territory, but the design logic is what makes it relevant beyond the runway. The bag is the easiest entry point for this softer tailoring wave because it can move from desk to dinner without looking precious. Denim shirting will likely have the broadest office influence, printed silk will show up as a layer, vivid suiting will stay the most editorial, and a bag like the Voyou Bucket will be the cleanest proof that workwear is getting dressed up without getting rigid.