Archaeology is poetry. That is the entry point into DI PETSA’s Spring Summer 2026 collection, a body of work that treats memory and identity as ruins waiting to be unearthed. The show arrived with the vision of the Archaeology of Self, an invitation to excavate the subconscious the way archaeologists uncover temples, artifacts, and forgotten deities.
SPRING SUMMER 2026
Just as soil hides marble fragments and weathered statues, our experiences bury the stories of who we once were. This collection framed personal history as an excavation site. To dig is to transform, to bring forward myths that shape the way we love, the way we break, the way we heal. The act of unearthing is never neutral, it carries the perspective of the one who digs, just as historians color the relics they interpret.
The collection built its narrative around the search for a Moon Goddess. As the story unfolded, the archaeologists themselves became the goddess they were seeking. The Ancient Moon Bag emerged as an artifact from this journey, appearing in metal with delicate embroidery, shimmering as though weathered by the sea beneath lunar light. Variations in metallic knit, organza, and rattan carried forward the sense of sacred discovery, objects that felt at once contemporary and excavated from myth.
Wetlook, the house code that has become DI PETSA’s signature, was reworked into loose silk and jersey ribbons draped across the body. These pieces felt like fragments reconstructed from memory, recalling childhood shards of pottery patched together with the biases of adulthood. They pointed to the fluid nature of myth and identity, neither fixed nor static, but constantly retold and reshaped.
Throughout, the Archaeology of Self drew from psychology, philosophy, and mythology. It reminded us that memory is not archival but constructed, that personal myths give life meaning, and that the excavation of forgotten truths transforms both the seeker and the found.
Selene, the moon goddess who loved the mortal shepherd Endymion, became the collection’s guiding metaphor. Luminous and elusive, she embodied memory itself, always glimpsed in fragments. To search for her was to search for the temple within, to acknowledge that we are mosaics: incomplete, fractured, yet endlessly beautiful.
With this collection, DI PETSA turned fashion into ritual, garments into tools of excavation, presenting clothes not as objects but as living myths layered with the poetry of memory and the mythology of self.
