“You’re not going to the supermarket or anything,” Dennis Basso said in reference to his spring 2026 collection. “Dennis Basso is about occasion, and it’s occasion-looking clothing.”

He’s still injecting it with a cross-generational approach, though, particularly as it pertains to styling. The designer also infused the roundup of slinky silk dresses and breezy chiffons with a few of his QVC pieces, such as a sequined white tank under a skirt, or a column gown under a white ribbon bolero.

For Basso, that’s how he sees women dressing.

“We’re dressing the grandmother who thinks she’s 60, the 60-year-old who thinks she’s 40, and the daughter, too,” he said. “This represents the modern woman. She’s high-low, mixing it up, wearing a great dress from Dennis Basso with a denim jacket.

“The inspiration was thinking about the strong American woman,” Basso explained. “There are so many women today who juggle their mothers, their wives, their boyfriends, their girlfriends, they have husbands, they have children, and they have big careers. And they’re going out.”

Basso is bullish on a few key styles, such as the pale lime hand-pleated chiffon dresses, which he rendered in a few different silhouettes to complement a variety of ages. “I tried to bring things that are going through the decades, and these say ‘young, flowing, easy-going summer,’ without saying ‘big, botanical floral,’” he explained. “Even though these are, no doubt, statement dresses.”

Of course, he’s still big on black-and-white, seen in paired separates with pants from his QVC range, or the laser-cut Russian broadtail suit, the skirt of which had a hemline abbreviated above the knee. “It has to be strong, fashionable, but not necessarily edgy,” Basso said. “It’s about being modern, but still, my collection reflects a bit of a classic feeling.”