on September 23, 2025
This year’s New York Fashion Week is over, and with its departure, the city is left humming. Faint echoes of fabric, applause, and street‐style whispers drift between the skyscrapers. For Spring/Summer 2026, NYFW was less spectacle, more visceral pulse: designs that tugged at memory, political undercurrents, and pure expressive play.
Let’s wander through what our team really enjoyed seeing, what felt hopeful, and what might shape how we dress for the next season.
1. Utility wear being fashionable
The mood was grounded in wearability but carried an edge. Workwear appeared softened by frayed textures and clothes that looked lived in. Imperfections became statements, suggesting strength in vulnerability. These garments felt made to be touched and worn rather than simply admired from afar.
2. Bold colour in monochrome
The palette spoke in contradictions. The color tomato red was the center of attention on many runways. It took the shape of fluid dress and sharply tailored, monochrome sets. Pastels offered a sense of calm while vibrant tones erupted like declarations. We truly loved seeing pink return in every possible shade, sometimes softened by neutrals, sometimes sharpened against deep tones like olives and black. Other shows leaned into bright lime, guava, and magenta, colours that aren’t often seen as “pretty” or flattering. They worked both as celebration and as confrontation, perhaps matching the current political distress around the world .
3. Shifting silhouettes, fringes
Shape was constantly in flux. Billowing trousers, barrel-leg and harem pants signaled the shift in SS27. The bottoms expanded into dramatic proportions yet still seemed wearable. Denim was reworked into rough and undone forms, full of seams, frays and low waistlines. The fringe had a moment in the sun too, across dresses, skirts and tops and creating the familiar movement we love. Elsewhere, trenches expanded into sculptural pieces and dresses floated with puffed sleeves and gathered detailing. Each silhouette balanced comfort with boldness, creating movement rather than rigidity.
4. Emerging voices and familiar echoes
The most striking impression was the layering of new energy. Designers experimented with formality reframed through nostalgia, American sportswear stripped back to essentials, and eveningwear infused with tenderness. It felt like a conversation across generations of style where fresh voices joined the chorus rather than competing for dominance.
5. The street as the other runway
Beyond the shows, the sidewalks carried their own rhythm. Cropped jackets, plaid reworked into unexpected forms, sequins shining under daylight and vests layered carelessly yet precisely somehow. The sense was not of costume but of everyday armour, a refusal to blend in. Even pieces from accessible retailers found themselves in the spotlight, reminding us that fashion’s impact is not bound to exclusivity.
What This Means for House of Yamina
For our world, the lessons from New York are clear. Create pieces that are lived in but still daring. Let colour speak in both whispers and shouts. Allow textures to carry imperfections that feel intentional, real and human. Celebrate the new voices and the unexpected combinations that keep fashion alive. Above all, treat clothing as identity, a form of language that can whisper softness or roar with defiance.
New York Fashion Week this season felt less like a change of direction and more like an acceleration. Fashion spoke with urgency, and the city answered.
