QASIMI presents its Autumn/Winter 2026 collection, Memory and the House of Remembrance, a meditation on memory as something carried, protected, repaired, and preserved. Rooted in themes of archive, shelter, and fragment, the collection reflects on how personal and collective memories are embodied through clothing, replicated, layered, and held in material form.
For Creative Director Hoor Al-Qasimi, garments function as vessels of remembrance. The core QASIMI design codes: layering, deconstruction, and mending are used as metaphors for the way memory is stitched together over time. The collection continues the brand’s hybrid language, positioned at the intersection of casualwear and tailoring, mirroring the imperfect and mismatched nature of recollection. Pleated shirts and billowing trousers are set against denim zip-up jackets and utilitarian, pocket-heavy outerwear. Earthy checks appear across trousers, coordinating jackets, and a cape-like protective coat. Layered silhouettes evoke both physical shelter and the overlapping nature of memory, an accumulation of lived experience.
Across knitwear, mending techniques are explored as acts of repair and continuity. Reconstruction becomes a narrative device, holding presence, absence, and healing within a single object, framing the collection as a living archive. Modular jackets sit alongside slit dresses and knits, while razor-sharp tailoring is softened through fluid lines that move sensually across the body.
Silhouette takes centre stage this season. Cinched waists are contrasted with wide trouser hems, creating tension and movement inspired by installation structures from artist Dala Nasser. Forms suggest protection and refuge through capes, scarves, and high necklines, clothing as shelter.
This collection is grounded in QASIMI’s familiar palette: muddy browns, burnt apple, earthy greens, aged clay, and slate grey, punctuated with burgundy and crisp white. For the second consecutive season, Al-Qasimi collaborates with Lebanese, London-based artist Dala Nasser, whose signature natural dyeing and charcoal rubbing techniques are woven into the collection.
Nasser’s work, informed by landscape, decay, and memory embedded in matter brings a tactile depth to the garments. Developed alongside students from the University of Sharjah, her frottage technique introduces layered impressions drawn from architectural landmarks, leaving textiles marked, scarred, and emotionally charged. Raw edges and loose threads echo her artistic language and reference ancient Lebanese sites central to her practice.
Hoor Al Qasimi adds “Autumn Winter 2026 reflects on how memory lives within clothing. Each garment becomes a vessel — carrying fragments of the past, acts of repair, and the quiet ways we protect what we hold onto.” Accessories expand on QASIMI’s leather goods offering, with a newly introduced bag collection conceived as a permanent line. Each design balances soft, gathered volumes with structured form, reinforcing the brand’s hybrid identity.
