Weightless grounds - collection Summer 2025/26

Weightless Grounds — Summer 2025/26
By Natalija Rushidi

When I was a child I had a recurring dream: I would leave my body and float above the city, drifting through skylines and alleyways until I found a small pocket of space where gravity loosened and I could glide. The dreams were beautiful and terrifying. Once, I woke convinced I might never return. I began sleeping with small stones in my pockets — a ritual to add weight, to give myself force and a promise of descent. The stones were ridiculous and earnest at once: crude talismans against infinite flight.

‘Weightless Grounds’ is the translation of that contradiction into cloth. The new collection interrogates what it means to be both buoyant and anchored, to long for lift while making practical arrangements for landing. A careful choreography runs through the garments: translucent layers that catch air and silhouette, paired with calibrated weights, stitched pockets and reinforced hems that modulate movement. Rather than sentimental nostalgia, the work privileges tactical imagination — solutions that let the body test its limits and come back intact.

Materials oscillate between diaphanous and tactile — cotton voile and lightweight meshes balanced by technical cottons, linen, and taffetas. Construction borrows from fantasy: dreamy shapes that shift with movement, alongside modular elements that can be adjusted or rebalanced by the wearer. Colour is luminous and strong — washes of sun-bleached white, golden yellow, and jewel-bright tones. The result is a summer wardrobe that feels as if it were drawn by wind and then thoughtfully tethered to the ground.

Weightless Grounds is an exploration of fear as a resource. The collection argues that vulnerability need not paralyze; it can be engineered, rehearsed, and made wearable. These clothes are invitations: to float a little farther, to return deliberately, and to carry the small stones that remind us how to come down.

— Natalija Rushidi