Graduate Show 2026

The Polimoda Graduate Show 2026 marks the school's 40th year with a graduating class that uses fashion as a tool to explore and make sense of the world they have inherited. Under the mentorship of Luke and Lucie Meier, who studied at Polimoda 25 years ago, 20 final-year Fashion Design students present collections that are fearless, intimate, and urgently human. Their work draws from memory, cultural heritage, and lived experience, treating garments not merely as clothing but as emotional and conceptual statements. Identity runs through every collection, explored through femininity, queerness, immigration, and the performance of social roles. Many designers honor traditions from their home countries while recontextualising them through a contemporary lens. Others interrogate the tension between the body and the systems that seek to control it, from technology and industry to political power. This is fashion free from commercial constraint, where every challenge becomes part of the learning. The 20 student designers participating in the show are: Vincenzo Junior Marrazzo | @vimarrazzo | Italy Evelina Kryvopust | @evikrv | Ukraine Isabel Antonia Richter | @isabelantonia____ | Germany Jing Jirat Jitdee | @jing.jitd | Thailand Victor Brial | @vicbrial | Réunion, France Anson Lorence Lin | @ansonlorencelin | Taiwan / Sri Lanka Aaron Dillworth | @aarondillworth | USA / Jamaica Matilde Terranova | @_mati_tt_ | Italy Francesca Valivano | @_fraangente | Italy Idan David Segal | @ida