London Fashion Week has wrapped up after an eventful week of new collections from famous and emerging fashion designers. A new trend is emerging, and the backstory is so powerful.
London Fashion Week returned with fresh creativity and new collections. Amid well-known designer brands and spectacular runways, one particular trend is gaining attention: fragile fashion.
Turkish designer Bora Aksu unveiled his Spring/Summer 2026 collection at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, beautifully decorated with rose bushes.
For this year’s collection, Aksu drew inspiration from his own archive of broken porcelain dolls. According to Fashionista, his intention was to embrace flaws and cracks. In his eyes, fragility is not weakness, but a new kind of strength, love, and survival.
The models walked the runway in multiple layers of lace, sheer fabrics, and hand-embroidered mesh in soft pastel colours such as powder pinks, soft corals, peaches, and powdered blues. Their looks told a story of vulnerability, capturing the meaning behind “fragile fashion”.
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“Broken dolls reminded me that beauty is found in traces of love, time, and survival,” he said before the show. He explained that, rather than hiding imperfections, he wants the audience to see them as symbols of resilience and beauty.
This year’s collection also featured delicate details such as lace bonnets and visible loose threads, intentionally left for viewers to notice.
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What is Fragile Fashion?
Every year, a new fashion trend emerges. Whether it’s baguette handbags, knee-length shorts, or pastel colours, there is always something fresh that captures the public’s obsession for months or even years. Recently, fragile fashion has experienced a surge of interest within the fashion industry and on social media.
Instead of bold statements, fragile fashion praises delicate fabrics, pastel colours, and handcrafted details. It reflects a wider shift in the industry, with people seeking comfort and learning to love themselves as they are, with flaws and all. It is not just a fashion trend but a movement towards finding strength in sensitivity.
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Social media has played a key role in popularising this trend, particularly on TikTok and Instagram under the hashtag #FragileFashion. Users have showcased outfits embracing softness, layering, and imperfection. Although fragile fashion remains an emerging term and trend, it has already gained significant traction.
Of course, fashion designer Bora Aksu has been at the core of this movement, proving that fashion can be pretty but also a powerful and inspiring form of storytelling. This year’s collection was a prime example of embracing the delicate and imperfect, celebrating people simply being human.
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