Akris Fall 2026
At Paris Fashion Week, Akris presented a Fall 2026 collection shaped by an unusual partnership between creative director Albert Kriemler and Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral. Kriemler has long described fabric as his primary language, and this season the collaboration allowed him to explore that idea more literally. Amaral’s monumental woven works, often braided from humble materials and finished with luminous layers of gold or silver leaf, became the conceptual starting point for a collection that treated clothing as a tactile, almost sculptural experience.
The show unfolded at Palais de Tokyo, where models emerged through a shimmering curtain of golden beads reminiscent of Amaral’s installations. It immediately set the tone for a collection built around texture and movement. Fringe cascaded from skirts and dresses in long strands that echoed the artist’s woven structures, while burgundy paillette gowns shimmered with each step. Kriemler leaned into surfaces that invited touch: fragmented jacquards, layered knits and supple leather shaped with a quiet precision. The collection also explored the shared origin of the words “text” and “textile,” both derived from the Latin texere, meaning to weave, a reminder that garments can carry stories as vividly as words.
Colour played an unexpectedly bold role. Gold, which Kriemler joked felt almost antithetical to Akris’s usual restraint, appeared throughout the collection as a nod to Amaral’s gilded artworks. From that luminous starting point the palette expanded into vivid reds, shocking pinks and sharp greens, bringing new energy to the designer’s signature tailoring and outerwear. Double face coats, leather skirts and boyish blousons were joined by dramatic evening gowns enriched with knotted fringe and tile like embroideries. The result was one of Kriemler’s most texturally rich collections in recent memory, a meeting of fashion and textile art that celebrated the simple yet powerful idea that clothing begins with the hand.
