If you’ve ever stared into the mirror at 3 AM and thought, “Am I hot or haunted?” Congratulations, you’re basically the muse for Reparto’s SS26 collection, Rated: R. The Spanish label has returned with a runway that feels like a séance inside a Y2K thrift store, where existential dread and teenage angst are styled into something weirdly, beautifully wearable.
Reparto say the collection finds “fear as a source of inspiration,” but it’s not your basic Halloween spook. It’s more about the low-key panic that comes with just… being alive. You know, the quiet dread, the doomscrolling, the anxiety in a dragged-out L.A. accent. Rated: R turns those emotional bruises into badges of aesthetic honour.
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The collection riffs on Vanitas paintings, those moody 17th-century still lifes that remind you beauty rots and power fades. Here, that decay gets translated into frayed hems, warped tailoring, and fabrics that look like they’ve lived several chaotic lives already (because, honestly, they have). Reparto’s trademark upcycling obsession continues; second-hand garments are chopped, stitched, and reborn into something fragile yet defiant, like couture made from emotional baggage.
There’s a defiant teenage energy running through everything, a throwback to the first time you realised the world might actually end one day, but you still wanted to look good for it. A bubblegum-pink mini dress paired with a “Scream Queen” cap turns hyper-femininity into armour, while a shaggy, head-to-toe creature suit transforms anonymity into power. Then, a crisp white “Mademoiselle” shift, trimmed with tulle and attitude, reclaims girlishness as a statement rather than a stereotype.
Each look felt like a different psychological archetype: fear of being forgotten, moral conflict, social burnout, the quiet madness of self-awareness.
Footwear stayed strong thanks to their ongoing link-up with Fernando Gómez, whose designs could easily stomp through a dream sequence, and this season introduces a new collab with jewellery label Simbolic, think sacred meets slightly unhinged.
It’s not all doom and gloom, though. Beneath the drama, there’s tenderness, a sense that Reparto isn’t just aestheticising decay, but reclaiming it. Vulnerability is the new rebellion; fear is the new muse. In Rated: R, the brand asks: if everything ends, why not make it look good while it’s falling apart?
SS26 feels like Reparto at their most intimate and unfiltered, raw, romantic, and a little bit wrecked. What’s cool about Rated R is that it’s not pretending to have it all figured out. It’s awkward, poetic, a little deranged, just like being alive rn. Reparto isn’t chasing beauty; they’re mourning it, then dancing in the ashes.
Fear, death, desire, decay, Reparto’s SS26 isn’t for the faint-hearted; it’s for the ones who feel too much and still show up. Messy, mortal, magnificent.
Words by Lewis Robert Cameron
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