Sergio Rossi's grey tights: the python Beak pump post, and the sheer black of the autumn campaign
Sergio Rossi's 8 November post puts model Lissett Ascanio in pale grey tights and python Beak pumps. Its autumn/winter 2026 campaign goes sheer black, on Instagram and on sergiorossi.com.
Two pale grey legs cross a navy carpet, and at the end of each one sits a pointed pump in white and grey python. Sergio Rossi posted the photo on Instagram on 8 November 2026 with a caption of four words for the shoe, "Beak peep-toe pump", and credits for the team: photographer Massimiliano Gallus, stylist Chiara Colzani, model @lisethsairys, the account of Lissett Ascanio. The first comment under the post asks "Grey tights?". We went through the brand's Instagram and sergiorossi.com to see how often the Italian shoemaker puts tights on its legs this season. The answer is often, and mostly in black.
The Beak post
Ascanio sits on the floor against a white wall, a magazine open beside her. The camel blazer is worn open over bare skin, with a straight black skirt that rides up as she crosses her legs. The tights run from the hem to the toe in one flat, pale grey, the colour of wet concrete. The shoes are the Beak: a deep V-cut vamp, a sharp point and a cone heel, here in a python print that picks up the same grey.
The photo comes from a longer shoot. On 6 October Gallus posted three frames with the same team: the sitting pose, a full-length shot with a short black pleated skirt, and a close-up of the feet. All three show the grey tights and the python Beak. Other looks from the shoot, with bare legs and trousers, have no tights.
The autumn/winter 2026 campaign: sheer black
The grey post is the odd one out. Sergio Rossi's autumn/winter 2026 campaign, shot in the sun on gravel next to a yellow sports car, puts its heels on sheer black legs. Two Instagram posts show it.
On 16 October the brand posted the Spur bootie, "the right attitude for the new season": black leather, a pointed toe, a stiletto heel and a gold metal strap that wraps the ankle. The legs above are in sheer black tights, with the skin showing at the knee and the shin.
On 12 October, a pair of leopard pumps steps out of the car: "Let your pump do the talking". The tights are the same sheer black. The caption does not name the shoe. From the photo, the pointed toe and thin heel match the Godiva pump in leopard-print haircalf on sergiorossi.com.
On sergiorossi.com, the Fall Winter 2026 home page uses five campaign images. Three of them show sheer black tights: the Spur bootie twice and the leopard pumps once. The other two show trousers and a bag. In the brand's last two months of Instagram posts the rest of the campaign, on the stairs and in the city, goes bare-legged or into trousers.
A third shade: Lola Young on the cover of British Vogue
On 6 November Sergio Rossi also reposted the November 2026 cover of British Vogue: Lola Young in a burgundy padded coat with a fur stole, photographed by Mel Bles and styled by Harry Lambert. Her legs are in dark sheer tights that read plum next to the coat, with leopard pumps. The repost suggests the shoes are Sergio Rossi's; the caption does not say so, and we have not seen the magazine's credits.
The tights: what we know and what we don't
Sergio Rossi sells shoes and bags, not hosiery, and none of the posts credits the tights. Brand, yarn and denier are unknown. What follows is our reading of the photos.
- Beak post: a pale, cool grey with no sheen and no skin showing through, even at the knee. From the photos, an opaque pair, around 60 denier or more.
- Campaign: a true sheer black, darker at the edges of the leg and lighter on the shin. From the photos, around 15 to 20 denier.
- Lola Young: dark and sheer, with a plum cast that may be the colour of the tights or the light of the cover.
Sergio Rossi has worked with a hosiery brand before. In 2022 it launched a capsule with Wolford, which sits with it in Lanvin Group. Nothing in this season's posts points to Wolford.
The shoes on sergiorossi.com
We read the product pages on 9 November 2026.
- Spur Bootie, black leather, 95 mm heel, product code B16620MMVN13110: 1,100 euros in Italy; $997.50 in the US store, marked down from $1,425.
- Beak Peep Toe Pump, 85 mm heel, made in Italy: the Beak collection lists it in espresso croc-effect leather (code B13170MMVS83110, 730 euros, $945), in black suede with pearls (code B13170MFL472110, 875 euros) and in plain black. The python version is not on the site, in Italy or in the US.
- Godiva Pump, leopard-print haircalf, 90 mm heel, code A43843MVIS31110: 710 euros, $920.
Why grey works under python
A python print is already grey, white and black. On black tights it would break into pieces at the ankle; on bare legs the cone heel would look like summer. Pale grey picks up the lightest scale of the print, so the leg and the shoe read as one long line and the pattern sits at the end of it. The black skirt and the camel blazer keep the rest of the look plain. It is the same logic as the campaign, turned up a notch: there, black tights carry black booties; here, grey tights carry a grey shoe.
How to wear it
- Match the tights to the lightest tone in the shoe. With a white and grey python, a pale grey. With a darker snake or a brown croc, a mid or charcoal grey.
- Go opaque for grey. Grey works best flat and dense, 50 to 80 denier, as on the Jil Sander runway in opaque grey. A sheer grey can look like a laddered nude.
- Keep sheer black for leather and leopard. For booties and animal-print pumps, 15 to 20 denier black, as in the campaign. Our sheer black guide explains why it is back.
- One print at a time. The shoe carries the pattern. Plain skirt, plain jacket.
- Black skirt, not grey. A grey skirt over grey tights turns into a uniform; black gives the leg an edge to start from.
The photos
The four embedded posts are Sergio Rossi's, from the official Instagram account @sergiorossi, and stay on Instagram's servers. The three frames of the Beak shoot are linked from the photographer's account. The campaign images on sergiorossi.com are not reproduced here. Prices and product codes come from the Italian and US product pages, read on 9 November 2026. The descriptions of the tights are ours, made from the photos.
Grey legs, python pumps: Sergio Rossi's quietest post this season is the one that gets people asking about the tights.
Frequently asked questions
Which shoes does the model wear with grey tights in Sergio Rossi's post?
The Beak peep-toe pump, as the caption says, in a white and grey python print with a cone heel. On 9 November 2026 sergiorossi.com listed the Beak peep-toe pump in black (pearl-studded suede and plain), and in espresso croc-effect leather, from 730 euros in Italy and $945 in the US, but not in python.
Does Sergio Rossi use tights in its autumn/winter 2026 campaign?
Yes. On sergiorossi.com three of the five campaign images on the home page show sheer black tights, with the Spur bootie and with leopard pumps, and the same shots appear on Instagram. The tights are not credited.
Who is the model in the grey tights?
Sergio Rossi's caption tags @lisethsairys, the account of model Lissett Ascanio. The photo is by Massimiliano Gallus, styled by Chiara Colzani.
