This summer, eight of the world’s most beautiful coastal destinations are getting the full DG treatment — and the results are exactly as maximalist, as joyful, and as unapologetically Italian as you’d hope.
This summer, eight of the world’s most beautiful coastal destinations are getting the full DG treatment — and the results are exactly as maximalist, as joyful, and as unapologetically Italian as you’d hope.
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There is a particular kind of summer that Dolce&Gabbana has always understood better than anyone: the kind that smells like sunscreen and sea salt and espresso, where the afternoon light turns the water an impossible shade of green, and you are, briefly, living inside a painting. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have spent four decades translating that feeling into silk, into linen, into the Maiolica prints and Carretto Siciliano motifs that have become some of the most recognizable, often imitated but never duplicated, visual signatures in fashion.
This summer, they’re not just dressing you for the summer. They’re dressing the summer itself.
For DG Resort 2026, the house has taken over six of Europe’s most storied beach destinations — transforming venues in Sardinia, Ibiza, Forte dei Marmi, Portofino, Marbella, and Saint-Tropez into total Dolce&Gabbana environments. Not a logo above the bar. Not a branded amenity kit. Full creative takeovers, where the prints migrate across terraces and cabanas and pool tiles and restaurant surfaces, where hand-painted vases anchor the corners, and where each location receives its own dedicated print, chosen to reflect the spirit of the place.
The Costa Smeralda is, depending on your mood, the most beautiful or the most reliably glamorous stretch of coastline in Italy. Hotel Cala di Volpe sits at the center of the Costa Smeralda, one of the first buildings completed when the Aga Khan founded the Consortium in 1962, designed by architect Jacques Couëlle, and still one of the coast’s defining addresses.
For the first time, Dolce&Gabbana’s Maiolica Gialla print appears here, covering the two terraces of the Atrium Bar in an exclusive yellow variation. This particular yellow, warm, saturated, unmistakably Southern Italian, evokes the sun-drenched quality of the Sicilian ceramics that inspired it. Decorated cabanas complete the setting. A dedicated pop-up features an exclusive selection of clothing and accessories.
If you’re going to be in Sardinia this summer, the Atrium Bar at Cala di Volpe is the only possible destination.
Ibiza is a place that has layers. The version Dolce&Gabbana has chosen is not the one that peaks at 4 am; it’s the one that exists just before: the crystal-clear waters, the white sandy beaches, the glamour that is genuinely gorgeous rather than merely loud.
At CLAP HOUSE, AlphaMind’s 16,000-square-meter wellness and lifestyle destination in Talamanca, Dolce&Gabbana’s Leo print arrives as a natural inhabitant rather than a decoration. It moves through the interiors with the same ease the print has always carried — across the wellness areas, along the pool deck, into The Dose By Silvena, the organic restaurant whose windows frame an unobstructed view of the bay. A pop-up store, rendered in white and beige, offers the wardrobe to match.
The Tuscan coast between Viareggio and La Spezia is a different proposition from Sardinia or Ibiza. Versilia in August has the feeling of old money that has learned, over several generations, to relax. Forte dei Marmi is its capital, and Twiga is its natural landmark: synonymous with entertainment, nightlife, and hospitality of a very particular Italian caliber.
The Dolce&Gabbana takeover here employs the Banano print. The nature-inspired, leafy graphic is drawn from the visual idiom of 1940s poster art and integrated beautifully to the location. This particular collaboration has even generated an exclusive Banano collection, a range of objects that includes tableware, bathrobes, beach bags, and surfboards, all signed “Dolce&Gabbana for Twiga.” These are the kinds of unique gifts that end up genuinely hard to find and even harder to replace.
Portofino may be the most beautiful place in Liguria, which is a significant claim in a region of significant beauty. The Piazzetta overlooking the harbor, the pastel-painted buildings, the Mediterranean vegetation pressing close to the water’s edge have been painted, photographed, and written about for more than a century, and it still commands attention.
Le Carillon sits in Paraggi Bay, within the Portofino National Park. The Dolce&Gabbana takeover uses the Verde Maiolica pattern — white and green, a natural echo of the coastal landscape — across the entire beach club. An elegant vertical stripe motif complements it, a gesture toward the quintessential style of the Italian Riviera. VESTA Portofino brings the same approach to the table as its Forte dei Marmi counterpart: a faithful treatment of Italian culinary tradition. The pop-up carries an exclusive summer selection.
Costa del Sol glamour is its own genre, and Marbella is its most fluent practitioner. La Cabane, the beach club within the Los Monteros resort, sits at the refined end of the Marbella spectrum.
The DG Resort treatment here is Blu Mediterraneo — the palette inspired by the depths of the sea, the energy of summer. The entire venue transforms under it. The restaurant and dessert area feature the Carretto Siciliano print, the Sicilian cart imagery rendered in vivid color alongside exquisite pieces shaped like the golden DG Logo Bag. It is maximalist in the specific way that the best Dolce&Gabbana work is maximalist: referential, deeply felt, executed with enough craft that the exuberance doesn’t tip into chaos.
The pop-up continues the Blu Mediterraneo theme throughout.
Once a fishing village, Saint-Tropez became something else entirely; a place where the Mediterranean’s folklore and its glamour arrived at the same address and decided to stay. Pampelonne Beach, running south of the town, is where the summer actually happens.
Casa Amor, the iconic bohemian-style beach club on Pampelonne, receives the Carretto Siciliano motif in its freshest, most unexpected iteration: Sicilian patterns and decorations in conversation with warm tones and natural materials, the formal and the artisanal finding common ground in the afternoon sun. The restaurant extends the same logic to the table.
It is the kind of place that will photograph well and feel, in person, even better.
San Domenico Palace occupies a former monastery on the hillside above Taormina, with the Ionian Sea below and Etna behind. Four Seasons took the address in 2021 and left the bones intact. For DG Resort 2026, the Blu Mediterraneo print arrives here in its most fitting context — the blue-and-white tones of traditional maiolica in a building that has been absorbing Sicilian light for five centuries. It covers the pool and terrace areas, and a pop-up whose apparel and accessories draw directly from vintage postcards of the palace itself.
Dolce&Gabbana crosses the Atlantic for one addition to the summer roster. Gurney’s Montauk, at the eastern tip of Long Island, is the Hamptons at its least performative; dunes, open water, the particular quiet of a place that earns its exclusivity from geography rather than velvet ropes. The Blu Mediterraneo print transforms the beach club and lounge areas, its white and deep blue maiolica motifs doing something unexpected this far from the Mediterranean: they fit. A pop-up in the same elegant vertical stripe pattern offers the wardrobe for it.
Each location receives its own print, carefully curated to reflect what it says about the place and what the place says about it. Maiolica Gialla for the sun-drenched formality of the Costa Smeralda. Verde Maiolica for the green-and-white coast of Liguria. Banano for the poster-art nostalgia of Versilia. Leo for the sensuality of Ibiza. Blu Mediterraneo for the deep coastal energy of Marbella, the maiolica-soaked hillsides of Taormina, and the Atlantic quiet of Montauk. Carretto Siciliano for the warmth of Pampelonne.
Dolce&Gabbana has been thinking about summer for 40 years. It shows.
DG Resort 2026 pop-up stores are live at all six venues for the summer. Exclusive venue collections are available at each location. All images are courtesy of Dolce&Gabbana: DG Resort 2026: Dolce&Gabbana style in exclusive locations.
