At London’s Ironmongers’ Hall, Dilara Findikoglu transformed the neo-Gothic setting into a stage for ritual, rebellion, and revelation with her Spring/Summer 2026 collection. Guests waited in near-darkness before the room erupted into a procession that felt less like a runway and more like a séance.

Velvet bustiers, rigid corsetry, and capes lined with metal shaped models into figures of spectral power, their presence heightened by talismanic jewelry and fetishistic boots. The collection climaxed with Naomi Campbell cloaked in commanding black, followed by Amelia Gray in searing crimson, two apparitions closing the show like a priestess and flame.

Findikoglu’s palette of black, red, and metallics glowed against the stained-glass light, while hair entwined with branches, metal lashes, and ritualistic harnesses blurred the line between mortal and mythic. Every detail reinforced her fascination with the occult and the esoteric, rooted in personal histories of rebellion and cultural defiance.

Unapologetically theatrical and uncompromising, the collection challenged conventions of wearability to assert fashion as an immersive ritual. With SS26, Findikoglu reminded London that her world is not one of quiet luxury but of radical vision, where darkness itself becomes beauty, and clothing transforms into ceremony.