QASIMI SPRING/SUMMER 2026 -A Decade of Dialogue, Memory, and Hybridity

​SøEdited Team
SøEditor-in-Chief: Chris Saint Sims 
​SøFashion Director: Savannah Barthorpe
Photography: Estrop / Francesc Ten


A Decade, Reworked

Marking ten years since its founding, QASIMI’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection is less a celebration than a reckoning. Under the creative direction of Hoor Al-Qasimi, the brand continues to evolve the vision of its late founder, Khalid Al Qasimi, one rooted in cross-cultural dialogue, memory, and transformation.

This eleventh collection explores hybridity as condition rather than concept. Silhouettes, materials, and references move across geographies and generations, grounded by QASIMI’s familiar palette of browns, sandy neutrals, and black. Texture becomes the site of tension, where structure softens and surfaces carry trace.

Womenswear introduces modular tailoring: sharp jackets paired with experimental trouser-skirts that resist fixed categorisation. “Memory nylon” plays a central role, a fabric that records creases before releasing them, operating as a quiet metaphor for impermanent memory and a subtle nod to Khalid’s early use of distressed materials.

Layering functions as visual language. Shirts accumulate, hems fray, pockets multiply. Garments suggest lives carried, adjusted, and worn over time. Check motifs drawn from the brand’s archive return with renewed sharpness, edited rather than revived.

Artistic collaboration remains integral. This season sees QASIMI work with Lebanese-born, London-based artist Dala Nasser. Her process-driven engagement with site and decay filters through raw edges, loose threads, and “doodle” embroidery. The result is clothing that feels marked by time, not aged, but lived with.

A decade on, QASIMI continues to speak in layers. Quietly. Precisely.

Press: Purpler PR