The Loewe Spring Summer 2026 bags guide reveals one of the most imaginative collections of the season — a study in volume, texture, and surreal minimalism that only Jonathan Anderson could orchestrate.
Clarity, colour, and sensual physicality — these were the coordinates guiding Loewe’s Spring/Summer 2026, a season defined by tactile intelligence and compositional precision. In their highly anticipated debut as co-creative directors, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (the New York duo behind Proenza Schouler) offered a new lens for the Spanish maison: one that fuses rational clarity with playful sensuality.
The show opened beneath the gaze of a single artwork by American painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow Panel with Red Curve (1989) — a minimal yet magnetic piece that framed the entire narrative. It wasn’t merely a backdrop, but a manifesto: a dialogue between colour, form, and emotion.
If Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe often flirted with the surreal, McCollough and Hernandez’s SS26 outlook is a little more grounded—but still mischievous.
That chromatic intensity — bold yellows, lacquer reds, cobalt blues — became Loewe’s new language for optimism. McCollough and Hernandez described Kelly’s work as a “prelude to what lies ahead,” a visual metaphor for the house’s next chapter: one rooted in clarity and contrast, in Spanish craft and sculptural sensuality. What emerged on the runway was a synthesis of purity and provocation — leather that behaves like neoprene, accessories that double as sculpture, and gestures that reveal the body’s rhythm through touch and tactility.
The headliner: Amazona 180
Loewe’s most consequential bag this season is the Amazona 180—a slouchy, asymmetric, designed-to-be-worn-open reinvention of the 1970s house icon. The name nods to Loewe’s approaching 180th anniversary. The form features a single top handle set to one side so the outer shell relaxes away from an inner gusseted wall; inside, a panel with snaps keeps belongings in place even when the outer zip is left open. Expect multiple sizes, classic leathers and suedes, and show-piece exotics. The attitude says downtown ease; the make says Madrid atelier.
Why it matters: the Amazona was always about practical modernity; dialing in this off-angle openness captures SS26’s broader trend toward intentionally unbalanced, one-strap bags—a literal tilt that mirrors the season’s appetite for vulnerability and motion.
The Glass Mouse Clutch: High craft, high whimsy
The show’s viral object is a hand-blown glass clutch—oval, pebble-smooth, dappled in cobalt, lemon, or coral—finished with a little metal mouse perched on the kiss-lock. Loewe confirms each piece is hand-crafted over ~45 hours, so the swirls, bubbles, and color fields are unique to each clutch. It’s jewelry-as-bag: fragile to the eye, surprisingly ergonomic in the palm, and destined for red carpets and museum vitrines alike.
Flamenco, loosened up
McCollough and Hernandez subtly re-position the soft Flamenco into a more sculptural day bag: drawstrings terminate in lacquered, stacked “coils” and the body is encouraged to ruffle rather than collapse. The effect is a crisper negative space around the hand; the Flamenco carries like a pouch but showcases craftsmanship at the handle hardware and edge-ink level. (You’ll spot it in optic white, racing red, and deep black.)
The Mussel Bucket: Texture you can hear
Another runway magnet: a woven mini-bucket overgrown with glossy, lacquered “clam shell” petals that shimmer as they move. It’s a coastal humor McCollough and Hernandez share with Anderson, but the message here is tactility: you feel and hear the bag as much as you see it. In black or porcelain white, it photographs like couture millinery and tucks just a phone and card case inside.
Graphic LOE Tote in Neoprene-like leather
Where the accessories skew practical, the oversized tote arrives in tomato red or azure with billboard-scale “LOE” letters. The trick is the leather: treated to read like neoprene, so the silhouette holds a crisp, sculptural mouth while staying light on the shoulder. It’s merch-adjacent in the best way—graphic, immediate, and very city-to-beach.
The Beetle Clutch
If Loewe’s Spring/Summer 2026 had a single object that captured the collection’s sensual wit, it was the Beetle Clutch. Small, sculptural, and slightly surreal, the bag distills the season’s ethos — clarity, color, and tactility — into the palm of a hand. Its asymmetric, pebble-like silhouette is smooth yet deliberate, a meeting point between art object and fashion accessory.
The clutch opens along a curved metallic seam, sealed with a jewel-like clasp shaped as an enameled beetle. It’s a detail that flirts with the absurd, yet remains undeniably luxurious — a reminder that wit, when crafted with the precision of a Spanish leather atelier, can be an act of elegance. Rendered in bold chromatic duos — cobalt and black, white and yellow, white and red — each version feels like a kinetic study in contrast, echoing the chromatic tension of Ellsworth Kelly’s Yellow Panel with Red Curve (1989), the artwork that inspired the collection’s mood.
True to McCollough and Hernandez’s New York sensibility, the Beetle Clutch operates at the intersection of sculptural design and functional minimalism.
Color & material story
The Kelly artwork wasn’t window dressing. The palette runs primary and punchy—lemon, cobalt, scarlet—against ink, espresso, and cream. Materials toggle from buttery nappa and suede to the gloss of lacquer and the translucence of glass; even when plastics appear (on shoes or coatings), the finish aims for precision rather than provocation. The net effect: clarity (a McCollough-Hernandez hallmark) meeting craft (Loewe’s core language).
How the new designers shift the dial
Context matters. McCollough and Hernandez step into Loewe with a proven accessories track record—remember the PS1 era—and they come in amid a season of seismic creative-director moves across Paris. Their debut was reported as confident, color-forward, and widely applauded, signaling an appetite for bags that read both pragmatic and collectible.
The takeaway
McCollough and Hernandez didn’t just inherit Loewe’s accessory crown—they reframed it around clarity of line, tactile materiality, and calibrated humor. The Amazona 180 is the future-icon play; the glass mouse clutch is the cult object; the Flamenco and LOE tote shoulder the day-to-day. It’s a collection that proves you can be serious about craft and still have fun.
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