For Autumn/Winter 2026, Rave Rvw looks backward in order to move forward returning to childhood not as nostalgia, but as a way of understanding scale, control, and imagination. Titled Child Play, the collection unfolds through the lens of a little girl navigating a world of rules and wonder, where freedom exists alongside constraint, and perception is never fixed.
Child Play and the Language of Growing Up
At the core of AW26 is the idea that clothing should adapt, not dictate. Drawing from childrenswear and baby-doll silhouettes, garments are designed to be adjusted, reconfigured, and lived in. A-line shapes, movable buttons, ties, and adjustable waistbands allow pieces to shift with the body that wears them. Nothing is static. Sleeves run too long and are casually folded back; collars loom oversized; buttons feel intentionally large in the hand. Proportion follows a child’s sense of scale — intuitive, exaggerated, and slightly off turning dressing into an act of play.
Interiors play a central role, filtered through the logic of Beauty and the Beast, where furniture is alive and domestic spaces breathe with emotion. Curtains, lace tablecloths, velvet upholstery, piping, trims, and covered buttons, materials once meant to frame interior life are displaced onto the body. The effect is animated rather than literal. These garments exist in a perceptual space where fantasy and reality overlap, and materials appear to carry their own agency. Scale becomes subjective, even strange, reflecting the way children experience the world before it settles into order.
Furniture fabrics have long been part of Rave Rvw’s material language, sourced from deadstock, vintage textiles, and discarded blankets. In AW26, that practice deepens. Objects are not only reused but conceptually dismantled and rebuilt as clothing. Puffy blouses recall upholstered chairs; piped skirts hold their form like lampshades. The domestic is no longer background, it becomes structure, silhouette, and skin.
Sustainability Through Reconstruction, Not Restraint
A more introspective reference surfaces in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, a story where childhood unfolds within adult systems of authority, care, and restraint. Interiors are charged with memory and emotional gravity; the home is both shelter and structure. This duality informs the collection’s more mature direction. As the brand has evolved alongside its designers, Rave Rvw’s work has shifted from overt patchwork toward more constructed, layered forms. In AW26, boundaries blur: linings surface, structures are exposed, and what appears to be separate layers are, in fact, fused into a single garment.
The presentation takes place inside the historic rooms of the Swedish Embassy in Copenhagen, an 18th-century residence steeped in Swedish design history. Soundtracked by original music from AK Cinder and a live violinist, the setting amplifies the emotional charge of the collection. Here, Fanny and Alexander resonate not as nostalgia, but as a framework for understanding domestic space as lived experience; intimate, complex, and formative.
Rave Rvw and PUMA Continue a Dialogue Across Time
The runway is brought to life in collaboration with PUMA, continuing an ongoing dialogue between the two brands. Footwear anchors the collection across time and function: the iconic PUMA Suede, with its deep cultural lineage from Olympic podiums to subcultural movements; the CELL Geo, a future-facing evolution of PUMA’s performance technology; and new iterations of the Speedcat including the Speedcat Wedge and Speedcat Boot reinforcing a partnership rooted in both heritage and reinvention.
Founded in Stockholm by Livia Schück and Josephine Bergqvist, Rave Rvw has become known for its radical approach to upcycling and emotional construction. Shortlisted for the LVMH Prize, the brand continues to challenge the idea that sustainability must be restrained or utilitarian. With Child Play, Rave Rvw offers a collection that is tender but controlled, imaginative yet precise and a reminder that growing up does not mean abandoning wonder, only learning how to carry it differently.
