“There is design in everything,” wrote the trailblazing Cuban-American furniture and interiors designer Clara Porset, “in a cloud, in a wall, in a chair, in the sea, in the sand, in a pot.” Porset’s ways of thinking informed Sandra Sándor’s approach to Nanushka’s spring 2026, after she saw her work at a MoMA exhibition.
“There’s a brilliance in updating heritage traditions with a strong modernist sensibility that resonates with me,” said the Budapest-born designer during a preview at Nanushka’s Mayfair townhouse. The mood board featured Latin American landscapes, wildlife patterns, and organic textures. “Weaving the past and present, weaving my cultural references, is really important, said the designer. “The Weave” was the collection’s title; it was less of a theme, she said, and more of an overarching ethos.
Porset’s ideas of combining modernist forms with historic craft played out in a high-ceilinged Kensington townhouse that was once the residence of Irish painter Sir John Lavery. Models glided from room to room in fluid silhouettes, woven motifs, and a swirl of patterns. Cold-dyed linen suit trousers in smudgy pink recalled summer dusk. Jersey was elevated and appeared throughout the collection, including as dove gray trousers and a twisted, drape skirt that were pajama-like, but styled and sexed up with open cut-out poplin shirts in a Gordal olive tone.
An otherwise sporty striped cotton jersey dress featured a flippy fringed hem, and the print and fabric appeared again as a pashmina and extra-long dangly earrings. Leather collars (an embryonic brand signature making a comeback) stood to attention on linen jackets, and were repurposed as shell-adorned, hand-beaded bandeaus and low-slung waist belts. Geometric and animal prints, ’70s floral prints, and spindly stripes like hot cracked earth were languidly layered with lilac satins and champagne silks.
Nanushka is known for its outerwear—those buttery soft leather bombers and structured trenches are going nowhere—but a growing focus is on the brand’s bags and footwear, with the popular, collapsible Origami and the more structured, belted Harmonica bags expanding in more sizes and natural fabrics. Hand-stitched, slipper-like shoes inspired by Hungarian craft and hand-beaded, beach club-ready mules slid along the glossy wooden floors.
There’s a potent feeling, now 20 years into the brand and doing Nanushka’s first London Fashion Week show, in the city Sándor studied and that shaped her views on fashion. “I want the everyday to have a new sense of being. Pieces that hold the wearer through life’s possibilities,” she said. “Let the sun shine, let the sunshine in, let the sun shine, let the sunshine in,” the finale song sounded out.
