Flair Fashion: IGNITE COLLECTIVE RUNWAY A/W26

Flair Fashion isn’t a showcase. It’s a soft rebellion with good lighting. Built to actually back emerging designers (from studio to store, not just the runway selfie), the platform is rewriting how fashion gets made, shown, and sold. Nine designers. Nine worlds. One big “watch this.”

First up, Fée Muse is in her Renaissance villain era. Corsets carved like sculpture, hips celebrated, zebra and leopard tangled in florals, its divine feminine meets maximalist meltdown. Botticelli on a group chat rampage. The Fée Muse woman knows she is art and dresses accordingly.

NOIRA delivers a full-blown British saga with London Requiem: Beyond Wonderland. Victorian garrotting paranoia. Grief stitched into tailoring. Blue fire rebirth. An Alice-coded finale that feels like falling down the rabbit hole after one too many martinis. It’s part fashion show, part emotional exorcism.

The Kong is Dead turns volume all the way up and decoration all the way down. Minus One strips things back to silhouette and proportion, exaggerated, confrontational, almost architectural. High fashion x hip-hop energy. The clothes don’t walk the runway. They occupy it.

Fresh from the British Fashion Council’s Low Carbon Transition Programme, Tara Kari floats between Finnish couture and sustainable fantasy. A/W26 drifts “away with the fairies”, fluid, escapist, a little unhinged (in a chic way). For girls who romanticise their own inner monologue.

UNE ENFANT, founded in London in 2025, rejects fixed aesthetics. Working beyond the rigidity of trends or prescribed silhouettes. In their AW26 collection entitled Ship To…, each garment feels like a recovered fragment, suspended between past and present, carrying with it the residue of personal history. Fabric becomes memory; construction becomes confession.

Ukrainian label PODYH, founded by architect Daria Plaksyuk, designs like its drafting blueprints. PODYH distils the discipline of architecture into fashion with an exacting, almost poetic precision, each silhouette composed as thoughtfully as a blueprint. For A/W26, the brand pays homage to architectural heritage, translating structural rigour into modern, fluid forms designed to transcend the tyranny of trends.

Belsize25 is deep in a smoky jazz bar somewhere you’re not cool enough to know about. Whisky Kiss in the Old City shimmers with sequins, beadwork, and glassy reflections. Amber glow. Slow rhythm. Quiet glamour that lingers.

SSLB keeps it intimate with hand-embroidered heritage technique accessories in their collection, Nature & Creatures: hand-embroidered fauna turned into jewellery. Like wearing your own miniature ecosystem. Cute, but make it conceptual.

Show closer streetwear extraordinaire PSY LAU builds culture into cloth. Inspired by Hong Kong’s disappearing bamboo scaffolding and the temporary theatres of the Jiao Festival in Kam Tin, this collection is all about preservation, structure, and honouring what cities try to forget.