SS 26 Decodings: Fabrics & Decoration Highlights The 20 February 2025 - Spring-Summer 26 - Fabrics - Embroidery and lace - Silkies and jacquards - Fabrics - Première Vision Paris

Spring-Summer 2026 unfolds through three themes: Re-fresh, Re-set, and Re-store. Rooted in a spirit of renewal, weaves, embroideries, laces, and prints respond to the season’s quest for freshness, sensoriality, pleasure, and a sense of grounding.

Re-fresh

The season’s developments align with a quest for freshness, central to Spring-Summer 26. Compositions, textures, embellishments, and material behaviors unfold around sensations of cold, coolness, and airy lightness.

To discover the highlighted directions for the theme Re-fresh, read our article Airy Freshness

Re-Set

The second theme, Reset, invites us to intensify our sensory perception. This Summer 26, the focus shifts to the immediate, the tangible, the search for pleasure. The emphasis is on the experience, reflecting a need for intense stimulation of the senses. In reaction to this call for visual, tactile impact, developments are returning to a taste for excess, re-exploring techniques and know-hows, enhancing textures and embellishments, boosting shines and handles, for a powerful, instantaneous physical experience. Fashion becomes a refuge, celebrating self-expression, well-being and sensory comfort, while using creativity and optimism to defy pessimism.

Lush Geometrics

Material surfaces recall sugary treats. Precious geometric designs are broken down into ranges of pinks, recalling little sweets sprinkled with powdered sugar or chocolate wrappers. Decorations verge on cheerful excess in embroidery, jacquards, lace and prints, lightly tinged with a kitsch pastry spirit.

Deepened Touch

A quest for immediate satisfaction drives the enhancement of the material’s sensory dimension through amplified tactile effects, awakening the senses.

Touch becomes a rich field of experimentation, with handles that feel like petals, are gummy, powdery or waxed. The sensorial experience of the texture becomes more intense.

Fluid Shine

Fluidity and shine fuse to create silky, satiny fabrics and runny draped textiles – to emphasize the sensual side of this season’s products.

Shine is bold, watery, liquid, lacquered. A plastic-like shine coats vibrant shades, bringing a playful spirit to the collections.

Naive and colorful floral prints also seem to echo the 60s. Daisy motifs and Pop-art style flowers are found in embroideries, jacquards and prints, for cheerfully nostalgic interpretations.

Re-Store

Restore, the season’s third prospective scenario, invites us to regenerate natural, cultural andlocal industrial ecosystems. To innovate and build a rooted, responsible future, developments draw on a knowledge of origins and revitalize traditional know-hows. This theme encourages restoration – of everything from our connections to our objects, soils and industry, by adapting products to needs and readapting processes to resources. Circularity and longevity are now a contemporary given, and bring together ingenuity, modularity and adaptability to rethink forms, uses and time.

Golden craft

This direction gives rise to a Golden craft spirit, with a precious rusticity in materials, wherenatural hues interact with delicate metallic shines, golden threads, fine glitter, or sequins. Expertise and savoir-faire shine through in cut-yarn jacquards, guipures or reinterpreted macramés, showcasing intricate techniques. Monochrome, dye-free textiles highlight the richness of textures through enhanced structural reliefs.

Fantasy designs draw from traditional heritage with cut-yarn jacquards featuring expressive raffia fringes or interwoven gold thread effects.

Tie & Dye Expertise 

Hand-made know-how takes on a contemporary dimension, with variations on both spontaneous and sophisticated techniques: tie-and-dye has established itself as an essential across the board.

Now interpreted in jacquards, embroidery or prints, and celebrating controlled imperfection and the artistry of a unique gesture.

Weaving & Caning

Decorative backgrounds invite closer attention. Behind the motifs – in jacquards, embroideries or prints – meticulous wefts are revealed, with graphic motifs in mesh, gauze or canework effects, enriching traditionally understated backgrounds. 

Timeless Strength

Functional textiles adapt to a new vision of urban luxury. Ultra-strong cotton twills illustrate the savoir-faire that goes into a durable textile, and are now enhanced with technical, windproof and water-repellent finishings, or come in high-quality colored selvedges.

Discover more SS26 season decodings here.