LùCHEN COUTURE 2026

LùCHEN sets couture as a point of reflection and construction. The season explores how a garment can be built not only through form, but through behavior — how materials collapse, stretch, resist, or adapt to the body, and how these reactions can generate a new emotional language of movement.
Material becomes both method and meaning. Feathers — a material language that has followed LÙCHEN across past seasons — return here in a more deliberate and expanded way. The simulated feathers are cut from reclaimed materials: they may come from leftover fabric fragments, deadstock offcuts, or regenerated plastics. Once assembled, they form a pixelated feather surface — an artificial plumage made from accumulation, repair, and repetition.
Inside the LùCHEN atelier, we keep a growing archive of recycled materials: remnants from previous collections, small pieces sourced from deadstock, and other renewable matter. Each fragment is cut into different forms, carrying its own origin and lifecycle. When joined together, they build a larger surface — a kind of time-net, where every layer records what came before.
In contrast, real feathers represent something fleeting. They are intensely present, but also fragile — a reminder of life and time passing. This contrast between the real and the simulated, the natural and the constructed, is one of the collection’s main questions.
Alongside feathers, the collection also incorporates other reclaimed or unconventional materials, including 100% recycled acrylic, elements derived from landfill waste such as eggshells and mussel shells, and objects that feel slightly outdated or displaced by time — like glass marbles. They appear as small traces or structural textures, used to test how far material can be pushed without losing precision.
The collection is shaped by a continuous negotiation with gravity. Moments of disruption and reconstruction appear throughout: rigid, suspended volumes hold the body in stillness, while weight-driven drapery releases it into flow. This tension becomes the collection’s core rhythm.