Drawing inspiration from the soft austerity of Vilhelm Hammershøi, The Garment’s Pre-Fall 2026 lookbook unfolds with a sense of measured calm. Charlotte Eskildsen turns to the Danish painter’s muted interiors and enigmatic figures, subjects who communicate emotion through stillness rather than gesture, and intertwines those references with her own fascination for the secretive elegance of Parisian doorways. Between these worlds, she locates a shared tension: the beauty found in silence, restraint, and the possibility of what lies just beyond view.

Eskildsen frames the season around the idea that minimalism is a deepening, not a stripping away. The collection reflects this with silhouettes that feel distilled yet sensuous, merging refined tailoring with near-lingerie softness. ’90s slip dresses move with a quiet fluidity, their simplicity carrying a subtle emotional weight. In contrast, a structured leather taxi jacket, riffing on ’80s New York cinema, introduces a shadowed urban edge, grounding the ethereal elements without disrupting the overall harmony.

Tailoring, a cornerstone of The Garment’s vocabulary, appears in crisp, full-legged white trousers and a collarless pantsuit that encapsulates the brand’s preference for clarity over excess. A weather-treated trench with a detachable scarf offers functional sophistication, its modular design adding adaptability to an otherwise clean, uninterrupted silhouette. A pearl-gray knit set, playfully scalloped along its edges, softens the lineup with an intimate, almost whispered texture.

Eskildsen’s attention to back views, a fascination she shares with Hammershøi, results in one of the season’s most compelling details: a jacket cleaved down the spine, revealing the back through a minimalist architectural frame. This gesture captures the collection’s approach to sensuality, which favors geometry and subtle exposure over overt statement.

Critically, the collection’s coherence is one of its strengths. Its restraint occasionally edges toward predictability, yet its emotional register remains meaningful and assured. With its interplay of slips, sculpted outerwear, and controlled tailoring, The Garment Pre-Fall 2026 presents a study in quiet sophistication, a collection that invites you to lean in, the way one might with a Hammershøi painting, to discover the story held in its stillness.