Qasimi Fall Winter 2026 unfolds as a study of memory shaped through clothing. Titled Memory and the House of Remembrance, the collection considers how personal history settles into what we wear, how garments absorb experience, and how protection, repair, and layering mirror the ways memory forms and survives. Archive, shelter, and fragment guide the season, framing clothing as a material record of lived time.
For Creative Director Hoor Al-Qasimi, garments function as vessels. Clothing carries traces of the past through construction, surface, and wear. Using Qasimi’s established design language, pieces appear layered, deconstructed, and mended, reflecting how memory assembles itself through partial recall and repair. The collection continues the brand’s hybrid approach, where casualwear and tailoring sit side by side.
Pleated shirts and billowing trousers appear alongside denim zip-up jackets and utilitarian designs dense with pockets. Earth-toned checks surface across trousers, matching jackets, and a protective, cape-like coat. Layering becomes central, offering physical coverage while referencing the accumulation of experience.
Visible mending techniques appear as deliberate acts of repair, reinforcing continuity rather than concealment. Reconstruction becomes part of the garment’s presence, carrying signs of absence and intervention. Modular jackets sit near slit dresses and knit pieces, while tailoring maintains sharp definition. Despite this precision, the line allows fluid movement across the body, creating a quiet tension between structure and softness.
Cinched waists contrast with wide trouser hems, creating motion and release within the form. These shapes echo installation structures inspired by artist Dala Nasser, whose work informs the collection’s spatial sensibility. Capes, scarves, and high necklines reinforce themes of shelter and self-preservation, turning clothing into a form of personal refuge.
The palette remains grounded in Qasimi’s established tones. Muddy browns, burnt apple, earthy greens, aged clay, and slate grey form the foundation, punctuated by burgundy and sharp white. Material surface carries equal weight. For the second season, Al-Qasimi collaborates with Nasser, whose natural dye techniques bring depth and abrasion to the textiles. Charcoal rubbing methods, developed with students from the University of Sharjah, introduce layered markings that register contact, erosion, and time. Raw edges and loose threads recall marks found in Nasser’s work with ancient Lebanese sites, translating those traces into fabric.
Textiles appear marked and scarred, reinforcing the idea of clothing as a living archive rather than a finished object. These surfaces resist polish, instead holding evidence of process and handling. The Fall Winter 2026 collection expands Qasimi’s leather goods, introducing a new bag line intended as a permanent offering. Each design balances soft, gathered volumes with rigid structure, reflecting the brand’s hybrid language.
In her words, Al-Qasimi describes the season as a reflection on how memory lives within clothing. Garments carry fragments of the past, acts of repair, and the quiet ways people protect what matters to them. Qasimi Fall Winter 2026 positions clothing as emotional archaeology, shaped by memory, held through time, and worn as lived experience.
