World of DI PETSA
DI PETSA presents HOLY MILK, its Spring/Summer 2027 collection, exploring the sacred roots, symbolism and ritual of motherhood, and the connection between the body and the natural world through the ocean as a maternal force.
For Spring/Summer 2027, Dimitra Petsa turns to motherhood as both an ancient ritual and an intimate process of becoming. HOLY MILK considers not only the experience of giving birth to another life, but the possibility of giving birth to oneself anew of carrying the different selves that emerge as we grow and change.
“We are pregnant with our own self. We give birth to different versions of ourselves when we grow too large inside us to be hidden and then again will be reborn.”
This idea of self mothering sits at the centre of the collection. Drawing on mythological and ritualistic associations of milk as maternal, erotic, spiritual and transformative, DI PETSA considers milk as both substance and symbol: intimate to the body, yet connected to the wider natural world.
The collection unfolds through a vocabulary of white, translucency, lace, draping and luminosity, creating a sense of softness and divine beauty. Bridal silhouettes appear alongside fluid, body conscious forms, while liquid surfaces and exposed skin introduce a more visceral quality. White is interrupted by deep blue, black and liquid gold, creating a shifting palette between purity, sensuality and drama.
Styled by Ramona Tabita, the collection moves between pared back exposure and elaborate adornment. Bare skin is set against draped jersey, delicate lace, translucent layers and sculptural silhouettes, while bridal volumes are contrasted with close-fitting, body-conscious forms.
AWE INSPIRED × DI PETSA
For SS27, DI PETSA collaborates with Awe Inspired, Official Jewelry Partner of the show, on a jewellery collection created in dialogue with the world of HOLY MILK.
The jewellery becomes an extension of the body and an integral part of the collection’s visual language. Pearls, stones, chains and sun motifs appear across layered necklaces, sculptural chokers, cascading earrings and body pieces, creating a vocabulary of adornment that moves between delicacy and strength.
Awe Inspired’s distinctive “WET” pieces echo DI PETSA’s longstanding fascination with water and the fluidity of the body. Suspended forms sit close to the skin, introducing movement and luminosity, while heavier chains and sculptural pieces create a more ceremonial presence.
Throughout the show, jewellery is worn directly against the body and integrated into the silhouettes falling across the décolletage, framing the face and tracing the body. The result is a meeting of jewellery and garment in which adornment becomes part of the transformation itself.
The collaboration will debut on the DI PETSA SS27 runway in London, with the Awe Inspired × DI PETSA Spring/Summer 2027 jewellery collection launching commercially in March 2027.
THE PERFORMANCE
Following DI PETSA’s recent theatre production at The Barbican, HOLY MILK will be presented as a live performance, continuing Petsa’s exploration of the space between fashion, ritual and performance art.
The runway becomes a surreal dreamscape of transformation, creation and rebirth, with garments incorporated into a living ritual around milk and water. Mothers, pregnant models and models carrying glasses of milk move through the space, bringing the collection’s central themes into physical form.
Among the presentation’s defining pieces is a sculptural lactating bra, which releases streams of milk during the performance. The piece creates a striking commentary on motherhood, the body and care as spectacle, placing an intimate act within the highly constructed world of the fashion runway.
In HOLY MILK, fashion becomes part of a larger ritual one concerned with motherhood, self creation and the continual process of becoming and being reborn.
HOLY MILK - BEHIND THE SCENES
A personal visual diary from the making of DI PETSA’s Spring Summer 2027 collection, Holy Milk.
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From the body, to the red carpet, to the museum.
DI PETSA at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
There is something deeply poetic about a garment that transcends classification, the outlines of aesthetics and utility.
This year, DI PETSA reached one of those rare moments where fashion, art and history came together.
Following the 2026 Met Gala, where DI PETSA dressed Ashley Graham and Laura Harrier, the house has now become part of the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For DI PETSA, this moment feels particularly significant because the house has never understood fashion as existing separately from art.
Before becoming a fashion designer, Dimitra Petsa first studied Fine Art. She later completed her Master’s degree in Fashion Womenswear at Central Saint Martins in London. The movement between these two disciplines became fundamental to the language of DI PETSA: clothing as sculpture, clothing as image, clothing as performance, clothing as a vessel for ideas.
The garments are designed to be an embodiment of art.
“No other form of art is so close to the body so intimate as fashion. You don’t become a painting the way you become a dress. Designing clothes is designing ones’ experience” says Dimitra.
DI PETSA emerged from Dimitra’s artistic research into the body and water particularly the social expectation that women should conceal the natural signs of their own fluidity: tears, sweat, breast milk, bodily fluids. From this research came the house’s distinctive Wetlook technique, transforming the appearance of wetness into something visible, sensual and powerful.Water has since become a recurring language within the work: a symbol of femininity, transformation, birth, desire and freedom.Alongside this contemporary exploration of the body exists another layer — mythology, ancient Greek imagery, religious iconography, ritual and the divine feminine. DI PETSA often moves between the ancient and the contemporary, between the sacred and the sensual, creating garments that feel as though they belong simultaneously to a myth and to the present moment.This is why the Met feels like such a meaningful home for the work.The 2026 Met Gala brought DI PETSA onto the museum’s famous steps, with Ashley Graham and Laura Harrier wearing the house’s creations.Now, beyond the fleetingness of the red carpet, the pieces of DI PETSA will remain.It will be preserved within the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — allowing the work to exist beyond a season, beyond a runway, beyond a photograph.We are profoundly grateful to the curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrew Bolton whose vision and belief in the work made this acquisition possible. To have DI PETSA recognised by an institution that has spent generations preserving the history of human creativity is an extraordinary honour.For Dimitra, it is also a beautiful full circle.A Fine Art education led to fashion.Fashion became performance.Performance became an exploration of the body.And now, the work has found its place within the history of art and fashion.
