“What’s lighter than air?” Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez blow up Loewe
For Fall/Winter 2026, Loewe’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez turned life-vest mechanics and safety gear into inflated silhouettes and playful craft.
If you wanted to mirror Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’ second Loewe collection in our collective emotional state right now, it was ripe for analysis. Between the life vest details that inflated outerwear, the protective coating of slip dresses and cocktail dresses made from safety rope, it was a call for rescue transformed into super-charged fashion. With that in mind, cocoon-ish fur jackets and dresses quickly started to look like safety blankets, rigidly sculpted leather coats looked like space suits, and coats woven from rubber strings had a kind of post-apocalyptic energy about them.
It was a call for rescue transformed into super-charged fashion.
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Staged in Loewe’s trusted box erected in the courtyard of Château de Vincennes – with a glossy yellow floor and large padded toys placed among guests – the set felt like a decontaminated zone, or maybe a greenhouse on another planet. The latter impression was only bolstered by last season’s plastic shoes worn by guests on the front row, and the rubber wellies the designers sent down the runway. “We were thinking about how to create silhouette and volume without adding weight,” McCollough said after the show. “And what’s lighter than air?”
We’re fusing the hand with technology. It’s the idea of how to modernise the idea of craft.
Lazaro Hernandez
The idea of inflation inspired nearly every look. Some jackets were adorned with oral inflation valves. Stiff collars featured throughout the show as if the garments had gone poof! Those sculpted leather pieces looked like someone had expanded them from within. “The idea of craft is so important to the legacy of Loewe. We’re fusing the hand with technology. It’s the idea of how to modernise the idea of craft,” Hernandez said. “There’s something joyful and playful about craft.” Backed up by the show’s theme, the designers succeeded in conveying that sentiment. Current affairs and rescue connotations aside, their sophomore show for Loewe was a fun fashion proposal for a conceptual clientele.
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