Situationist . Fall/Winter 2026/2027 - Paris Fashion Week

 

(Images: Situationist 2026) 

After 10 years, designers  Irakli Rusadze and Davit Giorgadze of their brand Situationist, finally land a debut show at Paris Fashion week for their Fall 2026 collection.  Which is an admirable  feat, considering that it has been a decade long effort by the two Georgian designers to showcase their own brand of East European aesthetics on the Parisian runway.

And be it, that Situationist was born out of the gritty underground rave scene of Tibisi, Georgia as a defiance against authoritarianism, to which still holds a haunting fixature over East European countries, and now the Far Right or more so proto-fascism is being implanted globally, specifically one has to thank Donald Trump's anti immigration mania as a fuse, which has ignited global fears of scapegoating race and religion, to be the blame for the ills of society.  The relentless of Peace through Superior firepower, as a template on structural stabilising society is exhausting everyone.  At the expense of a collapsed protest movements and no visible counterculture.  So, what do we do?

Rusadze and Giorgadze don't have a direct answer, nor are offering one, yet their persistence, and in some ways defiance, to maintain that tenuously creative line, in itself, is a form of protest.  And their stern, boxy fits, which they're renowned for, have little changed over the 10 years, sans the tailoring has become sharper and more defined, with touches of early 2000s Avant-garde.  Yet, overall the collection feels confined to its 1980s charm, mixed with 1990s confusion, as it tries to find a direction.

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(A.Glass 2026)