Valette Studio Champions Craft and Emotion in The New Romantics Collection

Valette Studio returns for the Autumn-Winter 2026/2027 season with a poetic and powerful collection titled The New Romantics, a body of work that reflects a deeper longing in today’s fashion landscape. Born from what the house describes as a “contemporary melancholy,” the collection confronts a fashion system increasingly consumed by surface image, where digital perfection and marketing optics often eclipse the soul of true craftsmanship. In response, Valette Studio offers a rich, tactile, and emotional return to the garment as a medium of human connection — a vessel not just for style, but for meaning.

The New Romantics is not about nostalgia. It is about reclaiming a sensibility — a renewed romance with fabric, color, and the gestures of the hand. The collection is a dialogue between past and present, tradition and innovation, deeply rooted in the belief that clothing should express the intimacy of the maker’s touch and the individuality of the wearer. The silhouette, while refined and architectural, pulses with the irregular beauty of the human hand and the deliberate choice to slow down, to feel, and to create with intention.

Materials are central to the narrative. Tailoring wools and wool gauze offer structure and fluidity, while recycled leather and technical cotton provide modern counterpoints to the soft opulence of faux fur and herringbone denim. Cotton voile adds lightness, suggesting vulnerability within strength. Each textile, carefully chosen, serves not just a functional role but carries emotional weight — the connection between skin, garment, and creator.

Color, too, plays a dramatic role. Valette Studio’s palette for the season is bold and evocative: glossy and powdered blacks, powdery whites, and electrifying shades like deep indigo, wine, fiery red, and evening green. These hues do not merely decorate the garment; they animate it, infusing each look with character and mood. The use of terracotta and luminous grey adds an earthy counterbalance, grounding the collection in sensuality and shadow.

Where The New Romantics truly breaks ground is in its embellishments — 3D-printed textures, embroidered overlays on prints, and hand-dyed treatments using gouache and watercolor techniques. These finishes, inspired by the theatrical makeup of David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and the expressive freedom of the 1980s, transform the garments into layered portraits of rebellion and beauty. Each piece seems to carry a backstory, a whisper of a life lived with intensity and style.

But what distinguishes Valette Studio beyond aesthetics is its unapologetic embrace of unity between design and manufacturing. The brand’s manifesto reads as both a mission and a rebellion — a refusal to separate the designer from the atelier, the idea from the craft. In a time when many labels outsource production and disassociate creativity from construction, Valette insists that “to design is to commit” and “to manufacture is to be in contact with reality.” This philosophy is not a marketing slogan, but a lived principle: Valette Studio and Valette Atelier are one.

The house believes that without the touch of a dedicated, in-house atelier, garments become empty shells — beautiful perhaps, but soulless. By housing design and production under the same roof, the brand fosters a creative tension and mutual understanding between those who envision and those who bring that vision to life. This integrated model allows Valette to not only interpret its own creative universe but to execute pieces for other houses, reminding the industry that collaboration and craftsmanship are not opposing forces but essential companions.

In The New Romantics, this philosophy takes form. These are not garments manufactured to follow trends; they are expressions of a worldview that celebrates skill, patience, and emotion. Fashion, for Valette Studio, is not just product — it is presence. It is a way of being. And in a world driven by speed and superficiality, that commitment to intimacy and meaning is nothing short of revolutionary.

With The New Romantics, Valette Studio extends an invitation: to feel again, to slow down, and to embrace the romance of the real. In doing so, they offer not only a collection but a vision for what fashion can become when it remembers its humanity.