Everything’s too sharp.
Everything’s hi-definition.
Everything is loud.
Four months ago, Hed Mayner began pushing his design practice towards something almost anti-construction. Slicing through the creative process, like he would a second-hand tailored jacket, he dived into the making of this collection with an intense velocity. This has left behind an august rawness and flirtatious potency.
Gone are the architectural, toolbox-like monumental structures that once offered protection and held their own shape away from the body. In their place, there is a lightness, a sheerness and a sheathing of the body, evocative of Mayner’s heed for softness.
An alien wears a swooping torso, a padded leg or a handkerchief hem and has rounded hips. And a pillbox hat.
Hed Mayner
Spring Summer 2026 is a push for the sublime for a time that has long forgone it. Mayner’s long-held interest in the sense of shelter offered by clothes has loosened—here they are driven by a warmth, a humanity. These clothes are an invitation to others, not a barrier nor a defence.
Handkerchief shorts and trousers feel as if they are descending from the body, floating—not sculptural. A removal of the shoulder from tailoring and shirting ushers in a collapsing of the fabric, which is used in its entirety. The feeling is one of a single piece of textile wrapped around the body from end-to-end.
There’s something of the home in the work too, which is accidental. There is a wrinkle of life in the crunchy handle of wool and cotton. There’s also something of 1950s couture. Valorous florals offer romance but also remind us of bygone sofas and worn dining room chairs. A ruffled gingham looks like feathers; draped cotton is suddenly something more opulent.
Clothes are collapsing, falling and going back onto the body. A hooded parka is elongated and ruched. A blazer in stretch fabric is fitted around foam, pinched closed with a safety pin, underplaying the grandeur of formal tailoring. Knitwear is point-stitched
onto foam.
Fluidity is an essential gesture: a drop, a swing, a hang that is cut into the clothes. Across all of the collection, Mayner worked on the idea of emptying the pieces of their structure. Their fit ripples around the torso and down the leg.
There’s something also connected to skin—the sensation of the air moving around your body and up sleeves, through openings, under layers.
We need immediacy, impact.
Something that’s been made to be soft, with confidence.
Something that is clear.
Something strong.
Styling Samuel Drira
Special consultant Anouschka
Executive producer Gemma Soriano @gemmasf
Head of events Lili Munoz
Music Atar Mayner
Show notes Dal Chodha
Video Justin Shin @collective_parade
Photo Paolo Marelli @collective_parade
Casting Director Isadora Banaudi
PR KCD Paris
Hair Mayu Morimoto@artistsunit sponsored by @kinujo.jp
Makeup Asami Kawai@artistsunit sponsored by @kohgendo_official
Styling assistant Johanna Bouvier,
Thanks to
Benjamin Roussel, Bertrand Tavier, Margie Castillo, Cécile Bortoletti, Sybille Walter, Arteo, Johanna Rill
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