Rachel Comey opted to let her spring 2026 fashions do their very own hair and make-up backstage. In a be aware to Vogue within the weeks earlier than the present, she defined, “as a lot as I really like a big backstage manufacturing, producers and group members flying round with walkie talkies and clipboards, an intimate gathering with girls placing their very own lipstick on and chatting appears like a room I wish to be in.”
Her phrases resonated as visitors gathered in Nice Jones Alley behind her newly expanded Broadway headquarters for tonight’s present. As a seatmate admired the eclectic, colourful, lived-in appears of the ladies within the crowd, a thought occurred: an intimate gathering with girls carrying their very own Rachel Comey garments is a room—road, on this case—the place you actually do wish to be.
Amidst the numerous exhibits I’ve attended and reviewed over 20 years, a uncommon few have featured the type of real-life vogue that Comey’s do. Eradicating even the artifice of backstage hair and make-up demonstrates the respect she has for her fashions and their factors of view, a respect that naturally extends to her shoppers. Comey’s loath to debate inspirations or seasonal messages. As an alternative, pressed for particulars concerning the new assortment, she turns to materials: The engineered jacquard of an ethereal pink blouson paired with waxed cotton chinos, an identical jacket tied unassumingly across the waist; the compact knits of thin pantsuits and tank clothes; and the “wonderful, wonderful” jersey of draped halter tops and skirts, these too in a gentle, fairly pink.
If Comey is wanting on the world with rose coloured glasses, she has cause to. There’s been loads of doom and gloom within the vogue business this yr, however she studies that her enterprise is up considerably. “I strive not to concentrate to no matter else is occurring,” she stated. “I deal with my clients, what they’re carrying, what they’re looking for.”
Therefore the sensible outerwear that was within the combine with these subtly particular items: a sturdy trench and one other in fluid washed silk, a tweedy cardigan jacket, a double-face cocoon coat. Nonetheless, the lasting impression was of the ultra-fine supplies—the slip clothes in jersey or engineered jacquard—that can wash over the physique like a caress. That appears like respect too.
