Zuhair Murad - Couture Spring 2026

For Couture Spring 2026, Zuhair Murad offers a vision of couture that feels like a breath drawn after a long silence. His collection, titled Chiaroscuro, imagines beauty as a form of quiet resistance, emerging from darkness to restore light. Murad invokes the idea of rebirth not as fantasy, but as a necessity, drawing on the Renaissance’s belief in art as salvation. The result is a world suspended between shadow and radiance, where the body becomes both memory and prophecy, carrying the traces of what has fallen and the promise of what can still rise.

The silhouettes move like figures stepping out of a forgotten painting. Conical corsets, sculpted waists, and sweeping skirts recall the hourglass shapes of the 1950s while echoing the sensual women of Titian’s canvases. Fabric takes on the role of light: duchess satin and mikado structure the form, chiffon and jersey soften it, and embroidery glows like the last flicker of candlelight on cathedral walls. Every stitch, every thread of metallic silk or hand-laid cabochon speaks of patience and preservation. In Murad’s ateliers, beauty is built the old way, through quiet human labour that feels almost sacred.

Across forty-five looks, the collection unfolds as a procession towards hope. Pastels emerge from shadow, the palette fading and deepening in sfumato tones as if each woman were stepping gently into dawn. Murad calls this a renaissance, but it is also a statement of faith: that craftsmanship can still heal, that art can still lead us out of the dark. After the night, comes the light.