The Icelandic designer’s latest London Fashion Week outing proposed an alternative to the head-to-toe look. Instead, Sól Hansdóttir offered up strange, clever styling objects intended to make what we already own feel entirely new
Perhaps the most radical proposition at Fashion Week is not telling people what to wear at all. For spring/summer '27, Icelandic designer Sól Hansdóttir arrived at London Fashion Week with a collection that relinquished a little control. Rather than building complete looks, Hansdóttir presented what she calls "hybrid garments": curious, adjustable objects that hover in a liminal space between clothing and accessory, intended to be layered, wrapped, and fastened over whatever happens to already be hanging in your wardrobe. "It unlocks your wardrobe," she explains. "It's a lot about dressing and styling, not about: here's a new outfit."
Though it may sound like a simple suggestion, it's one Hansdóttir has spent 18 months arriving at. Early iterations emerged through commissions spanning performance and art, environments in which clothes are brought to life by the person wearing them. Here, that autonomy is handed over to the customer. Hansdóttir may determine a piece's shape, colour, and texture, but what happens next is frankly, and deliberately, none of her business.