01/04/2026
For FW26, ’s Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient sharpen what has always defined the brand: distortion, interruption, and an adamant refusal to conform. The show space mirrored that tension: stripped-back, industrial, confrontational. No theatrics. No distance. Titled «Female Fools», the collection draws from Isa Genzken and her vision of the woman who refuses correction, celebrating being unpolished, ‘unfinished’, alive, and free. That tension holds the collection together.
Leather marks a shift. Biker jackets, lean trousers, and structured layers cut through the usual unravelling. Disruption remains: toggles mid-garment, seams left exposed, silhouettes pulled slightly off-kilter. Utility collides with aftermath. Alpine references, developed with Mammut, mutate into something urban and undone. Puffers read like sleeping bags. Leggings unzip into something else entirely. Footwear stays grounded. Weathered Nikes are worn into submission. The teased ‘Mirage’ distorts the line between sport and formality, landing somewhere off-balance. Sneakers slump, collapse, almost too cosy, an intimate contrast to the collection’s sharper edges.
Even at its most disrupted, the FW26 collection reads as a declaration. Not polished, not resolved, the Ottolinger woman stays true to herself, refusing to conform to societal or sartorial expectations.
Ottolinger FW26 «Female Fools» by Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient
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