Osvaldo Supino Stages Double Comeback: Venice Red Carpet Return and New Single Announced for 29 September

Italian singer and performer Osvaldo Supino returns to the Venice Film Festival red carpet after two years, wearing Converse All Stars, and announces his new single for 29 September 2026.

After a two-year absence from the Lagoon, Italian singer and performer Osvaldo Supino made a striking return to the Venice Film Festival red carpet on 8 September 2026 and, as ever with Supino, the outfit said as much as the occasion.

Fresh from an appearance at the Premios Juventud in Marbella that captured the attention of photographers and international media, Supino arrived in Venice wearing a pair of classic Converse All Stars. Far from undermining the elegance of the evening, the sneakers became the unexpected centrepiece of the look, a calculated gesture from an artist who has spent more than a decade dismantling red-carpet conventions without ever abandoning polish.

A Decade of Disruption, With Purpose

For European audiences, Supino has long represented a distinctly continental approach to celebrity: one in which fashion functions as commentary rather than costume. His record speaks for itself. He made history as the first man ever to wear a skirted tuxedo on the Venice Film Festival red carpet, a milestone achieved only after 72 editions of the festival. He followed it with an ensemble crafted entirely from pearls and a succession of gender-fluid and gender-neutral looks that blurred the traditional boundaries between menswear and womenswear.

Those who frame such choices as provocation miss the point, Supino’s trajectory suggests. His wardrobe is better understood as a coherent visual language, built around three pillars: fashion, inclusion and the freedom to challenge expectations. It is an approach that sits comfortably within Europe’s broader cultural conversation about identity and self-expression, and one that has kept him in demand across the continent’s premier events.

The Music Returns

Yet this year’s Venice appearance carried a second, arguably weightier message. Supino is officially returning to music.

The artist confirmed that his new single will be released on 29 September 2026, opening a fresh musical chapter after months of international activity and promotion, including a tour that concluded in Los Angeles in February. For a performer whose profile has grown as much on the red carpet as on the stage, the announcement reframes the Venice moment: not merely a fashion event, but the starting gun of a new era.

A Comeback With Double Meaning

Supino’s return to one of the world’s most iconic festival stages, in trainers, no less, balances spectacle with substance. It is a reminder that in European entertainment, breaking the rules and being elegant are not mutually exclusive propositions.

The countdown to 29 September has officially begun.