London-based fashion brand Qasimi presented its Autumn Winter 2026 Collection, reflecting on memory as something carried, protected, and restored over time. Creative Director Hoor Al-Qasimi develops the collection through an ongoing collaboration with Lebanese, London-based artist Dala Nasser, approaching clothing as a living archive shaped by wear, repair, and shared authorship. Photographer Sohom Das was on site to document Qasimi’s Autumn Winter 2026 presentation exclusively for DSCENE Magazine during Milan Fashion Week.
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Titled Memory and the House of Remembrance, the collection examines how experience settles into clothing and how garments absorb traces of use and care. Themes of shelter, archive, and fragment guide the season, framing dress as a material record of lived time. Al-Qasimi treats garments as vessels that carry memory through layering, mending, and hybrid tailoring.
Pleated shirts and billowing trousers appear with denim zip-up jackets and utilitarian pieces dense with pockets. Earth-toned checks appear on trousers, matching jackets, and a cape-like coat that suggests protection. Layering defines the silhouettes, offering physical coverage while referencing the accumulation of experience held within clothing.
Repair remains present, reinforcing continuity and care. Reconstruction forms part of each garment’s presence, carrying signs of intervention and absence. Modular jackets appear alongside slit dresses and knit pieces, while tailoring retains sharp definition. Structure meets softness through form, creating tension within the garments without rigidity.
Cinched waists contrast with wide trouser hems, introducing release within the silhouette. These proportions draw from installation structures connected to Nasser’s artistic practice, shaping the collection’s spatial sensibility. Capes, scarves, and high necklines reinforce ideas of shelter and self-preservation, turning clothing into personal refuge and armor.
The palette builds on Qasimi’s established tones. Muddy browns, burnt apple, earthy greens, aged clay, and slate grey form the base, punctuated by burgundy and sharp white. For a second season, Al-Qasimi works with Nasser through natural dye techniques that introduce abrasion and depth. Charcoal rubbing methods, developed with students from the University of Sharjah, leave layered markings that register contact, erosion, and time. Raw edges and loose threads recall marks found in Nasser’s work with ancient Lebanese sites, translated directly into textile form.
Textiles appear marked and worn, reinforcing the idea of clothing as a living archive instead of a finished object. These surfaces hold evidence of handling and process. The Autumn Winter 2026 season also extends Qasimi’s leather goods, introducing a new bag line intended as a permanent offering. Each design balances gathered softness with firm structure, reflecting the brand’s hybrid approach.
Al-Qasimi frames the collection as a meditation on how memory lives within clothing. Garments hold fragments of the past, acts of repair, and the ways people protect what matters. Qasimi Autumn Winter 2026 presents dress as emotional archaeology, shaped by memory and worn as lived experience.
