Andrej Gronau A/W 2026

At Berlin Fashion Week, Andrej Gronau invited audiences inside. His Fall/Winter 2026 collection blurred the boundaries between the domestic and the performative, transforming the private interior into public expression. Inspired by the dollhouse as a system, Gronau used it as a lens to examine how adulthood inhabits spaces once coded as feminine, decorative or excessive. Carpets, curtains and blankets migrated into garments, reimagined as coats, dresses and elasticated silhouettes. Soft textures guided the show’s rhythm, suggesting that comfort, rather than control, could be a new form of confidence.

Philosophical underpinnings shaped the collection as much as its fabrics. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and Walter Benjamin, Gronau treated the home as a site of rebellion — a loophole in social codes of taste. Velour met brocade; hoodies draped like curtains. Each look felt at once intimate and conceptual, fusing the logic of interior design with the structure of tailoring. Childhood lingered in the details, not erased but absorbed, its sentimentality reshaped into something quietly radical.

The result was a study in balance: indulgence meeting restraint, play meeting precision. Gronau’s world proposes that fashion need not reject comfort or domesticity to be powerful. Instead, it can reclaim them as tools of expression, where privacy becomes strength and softness signals autonomy. In a season filled with hard edges and austerity, his collection stood out for offering something subversive in its gentleness — a reminder that elegance can still begin at home.