QASIMI has revealed its Spring Summer 2026 collection during Milan Fashion Week, under the creative direction of Hoor Al-Qasimi.
The presentation marks both the brand’s 10th anniversary and its 11th seasonal collection guided by Hoor, who draws continued inspiration from the late founder, Khalid Al Qasimi.
Rooted in the late founder’s values, the SS26 collection explores themes of dialogue, cross-cultural exchange and duality. These are reflected in the blend of silhouettes, materials and ideas that span diverse geographies and histories. QASIMI maintains its signature palette of browns, beiges, blacks and sandy tones, while introducing contrasting materials and structured designs.
For womenswear, the collection brings hybrid tailoring through modular jackets and structured skirts. Memory nylon is central to the season, used in jackets and trousers. The fabric records creases that fade over time, serving as a metaphor for lived experience and the impermanence of memory. Its distressed and tactile qualities also reference Khalid Al Qasimi’s early design language.
Layering is key across the collection, with stacked shirts reflecting the accumulation of experience. The brand revisits its utilitarian roots with modular garments, functional pockets and early check motifs from its archive, reinterpreted with a modern sensibility.
As part of its seasonal collaboration with artists, this collection features work with London-based Lebanese artist Dala Nasser. Her process-driven approach and connection to place influence the collection’s raw edges, loose threads and doodle embroidery. These elements echo her work with ancient Lebanese sites and convey a poetic language of decay through frayed hems and distressed finishes.
Accessories build further on the theme of transformation and hybridity. Crocheted keychains appear as fused animal forms, symbolising blended origins and shifting identities. Surplus materials are also incorporated, reinforcing QASIMI’s circular model of luxury and its commitment to engaging with existing resources and histories.
The brand describes the SS26 offering as a meditation on place, transformation and coexistence. In a statement, Dala Nasser said the collaboration was one of the most inspiring experiences of her career, praising the opportunity to explore memory and impermanence through fashion and wearable artworks.
