Miss Sohee Couture Spring/Summer 2026 Show

'BREATHING FORMS' For Spring/Summer 2026, I wanted to explore emotion through form, how the body can become a vessel for memory, landscape, and symbolism. I approached the body as sculpture. Draped silk taffeta wraps and moves with rhythm, responding to each step as if it were alive. Fashion, to me, has no limits; it exists where clothing becomes art. Movement is fluid, and fabric is never static. It breathes, falls, and carries emotion. Throughout the collection, bamboo gardens and cherry blossoms seem to grow from the body, all handcrafted with feathers and fine layers of brass, blurring the line between nature and couture. The collection features 16 looks adorned with over 37,000 hand-embroidered Swarovski crystals, with select pieces requiring up to 2,500 hours of meticulous embroidery. I was inspired by windows and the shadows created within a frame. I used the female silhouette as a frame to hold imagined scenes, wisteria gardens, orchids, and skies shifting from sunset to midnight in soft ombré hues. These narratives extend beyond the garments themselves, reflected onto folding screens and chairs, allowing the embroidery to exist within an environment rather than on clothing alone. Hand painting became another key language. I treated the female body as a canvas, reinterpreting traditional Korean mountain landscapes (산수화) by Kim Hong do (김홍도) onto silk organza capes and overskirts. Layered sheers create depth, like ink painted hills fading into mist, all hand painte