Ruohan Nie is obsessed with details. A closer look at her take on quiet luxury reveals how much is going on under the seemingly mundane surface.
Spring 2026 marks the second chapter of the Chinese designer’s odyssey of the seasons. She looked at the colors — mostly various shades of blue — and textures of a summer night.
The lineup was poetic, delicate but not flimsy. Nie utilized coated materials like wax cupro to give shapes to garments that would have been soft.
The other takeaway from summer was this sense of endlessness. “Like how you never finish reading a book, and that for me is the rhythm of summer,” Nie said.
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She visualized that rhythm through knitwear by combing different yarns of cashmere, mohair and silk to form uneven lines in the garments. “I call it the floating yarn effect, kind of like words laying as brick on top of each other,” she added.
She was also inspired by the Poems series by artist Carl Andre, who constructed poems through repetition of the same words. The show gift, a music box with a paper tape with punched holes in the form of the word hope, was meant to bring optimism to the guests.
The bags, made of metallic wires, added a touch of metallic shine to understated collection. Nie said the bags were inspired by her holiday in Bali, another nod to a joyful, endless summer.
