Kiko Kostadinov. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion Week

 

(Images: Kiko Kostadinov 2025)

Laura and Deanna Fanning maintain their symmetrical, patchwork styles for Kiko Kostadinov's women's collections, whilst adding their own unique take on the thrift, mix and match looks, which is very much aligned with their own avant garde flair, be it the Australian sisters futuristic, cult like concepts, and science fiction aesthetics.  And as noted in their Fall 2025 runway show, the Fanning's revealed a stunning collection, and their Spring/Summer 2026 looks have ensured, in a more direct manner, the cointunity.

For their latest collection, the Fanning's have incorporated the late Christina Ramberg's pop art and later postmodernist work, as a inspiration for the Spring/Summer styles.  More so, Ramberg's 1970s 'corset' works, as a commentary of sex positive and/or counterculture feminist idelaism of women's sexuality which, as we all know now, was a lot more expressive and open in the 1960s and 1970s, and so was the artistic freedom in the deconstruction of sexulalized aesthetics.  Rarely seen in our post TikTok digital world.  

Although the Fanning's are not offering social or political commentary with this collection, rather they're redefining symmetrical shapes and fits, specially how shape and form within the fluidity of the feminine, can, and has, redefined fashion and style.  Also noted with this collection, which appears more protective and contoured, is what could be a slight horror esque element to it, be it the cenobites of Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" movies.   Where the human body, by the omnipotent Leviathan, is reshaped and reconfigured (in Hell), with its own skin and biology, to serve, and dispense both pleasure and pain to anyone who wishes it, seen predominantly on outfits 32 and 34.  Anyone seen the Hellraiser 2022 reboot?

Their Spring Summer 2026 collection is not as subtle, or strikingly feminine, as previous collections, holding a more blunt appeal, within its serious prose.  Dare I say, a stylized rigidness?

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(A.Glass 2025)