For the sixteenth collection featured in our On Our Radar: Special Edition Fall/Winter 2026 in Paris, Niccolò Pasqualetti presents a vision that dissolves the line between the physical and the ethereal. His FW26 collection feels less like a set of garments and more like a ritual — where material, body, and spirit converge.
Pasqualetti builds the collection on friction and contrast. A palette of deep reds, moss greens, rusty oranges, and midnight blues pulses through tactile fabrics: chambray two-tone weaves, long-nap suede, pebbled calfskin, supple studded lambskin, and distorted jacquards. Dense sequins catch the light like fragments of something celestial, grounding the collection somewhere between earth and the otherworldly.
Technical manipulation pushes familiar materials into new terrain. Golden silk is worked until it resembles raw fur, sheepskin is dyed to echo the grain of deer hide, and cotton appears stained like freshly unearthed soil. What might seem primitive is in fact deeply intentional — a study of texture as memory, material as emotion.
Sculptural silver elements slide between ornament and extension of the body, while soft structures linked by metal rings can be layered over everyday staples, collapsing the distance between experimental fashion and lived reality. Even traditional tailoring refuses stillness: asymmetries disrupt classic silhouettes, yet somehow land with an effortless ease.
With FW26, Pasqualetti suggests that the earthly and the transcendent aren’t opposites at all. They are simply two states of the same presence — rooted in the ground, illuminated by light. And in that tension, fashion finds its quiet magic.
