Collina Strada Takes a Detour Through Art, Nature and the Freedom to Find Your Own Way
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Fashion has always been about movement. For Collina Strada, that movement is rarely confined to the body. For Spring/Summer 2027, the New York label takes a literal and conceptual detour, staging its latest collection at Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley—the first runway show ever presented at the expansive outdoor museum.
Titled “Detour,” the collection considers what happens when the expected path is no longer the destination. Against a landscape of grass, steel, sky and monumental sculpture, clothing becomes part of the environment rather than simply something placed within it. The result is a runway experience built around discovery, instinct and the willingness to get a little lost.
“I’ve always thought of clothing as a sculptural practice,” says founder and Creative Director Hillary Taymour. The sentiment feels particularly at home at Storm King, where large-scale works exist in conversation with the landscape around them. Taymour approaches clothing similarly: fabrics move, stretch, collapse and transform with the people wearing them, changing not only how a body looks but how it moves through the world.
That philosophy gives “Detour” its shape. Rather than presenting a collection as a fixed proposition, Collina Strada frames it as an invitation to reconsider direction itself. The path does not have to be perfect. It does not necessarily have to make sense. It simply has to be your own.
The clothes reflect that same refusal to remain predictable. Organza feathers, abundant ruffles, complex draping and recycled sequins create a wardrobe that oscillates between delicacy and excess. Taymour experiments with over-draped bottoms and exaggerated volume while keeping the pieces grounded in wearability.
Visually, the collection finds its tension in an unlikely collision: medieval romance meets modern rebellion. The fantasy of A Knight’s Tale is filtered through punk, Y2K and the disorderly process of figuring out who you want to become. Romantic references are not preserved as historical artifacts; they are reshaped through Collina Strada’s irreverent lens.
Across 33 looks, that collision moves through dusty rose moiré, recycled sequins, chrysanthemum chiffon, painted plaid, satin, lace, organza and deadstock fleece. Cargo pants and shorts sit alongside gowns and corsets, while pieces such as the Storm King Lestat Tank and Sequin Pamela Dress make the environment itself feel embedded into the collection’s vocabulary.
The material choices further reinforce Collina Strada’s longstanding interest in reconsidering how fashion is made and consumed. Recycled sequins, organic cotton, deadstock silk and nylon, deadstock fleece and eco acetate appear throughout the collection, continuing the brand’s stated ambition toward sustainability and radical transparency.
Even the collaborators extend the collection beyond conventional fashion categories. Footwear arrives through ongoing partnerships with KEEN and Converse, while ONDO supplies socks and Breda watches complete the looks. Carly Rae Jepsen provides the musical performance, with a soundtrack by Oyinda and Rafferty Swink.
At Storm King, the setting ultimately becomes more than a backdrop. It becomes part of the argument. The museum’s 500 acres are dedicated to large-scale sculpture and site-specific works beneath an open sky, creating an environment where art, nature and discovery coexist.
That makes “Detour” feel less like a collection about escaping the expected route and more like one about understanding why deviation matters. Fashion can prescribe silhouettes, trends can dictate direction and culture can establish its own set of rules. Collina Strada has always been interested in what happens when those rules are questioned.
“You can make your own way as you go,” Taymour writes of the collection. It is perhaps the simplest articulation of the Collina Strada ethos: embrace the strange path, trust the instinct to wander and understand that reinvention is not a departure from the journey—it is the journey itself.
For Spring/Summer 2027, Collina Strada does not simply take a detour from the runway. It asks what might happen when fashion stops following the map altogether.
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For Spring/Summer 2027, Collina Strada takes its audience beyond the traditional runway and into Storm King Art Center, using fashion, sculpture and landscape to explore individuality, transformation and the freedom to choose another path.