Collina Strada Wants You to Touch Grass

New York Fashion Week often ends with a bang: a pulsating runway show followed by an equally glittering party in a grand finale before the industry moves on (and does it all over again in London). For Spring/Summer 2027, Collina Strada did the opposite. 

 

Creative Director Hillary Taymour took the fashion crowd upstate to Storm King Art Center, trading crowded venues and late-night revelry for rolling fields, monumental sculpture, and something closer to a picnic in the grass.

Titled Detour, the collection marked the first New York Fashion Week show staged at the Hudson Valley sculpture park, and the setting proved more than scenic. Models wandered across the grounds beneath the open sky, making their way through a collection similarly interested in veering off course. 

 

Taymour looked to A Knight’s Tale, pulling medieval romance into the Collina Strada universe with chainmail, corseted shapes, cascading ruffles, and sweeping gowns. But this was hardly a period piece—nods to Y2K styling, utilitarian cargos, and the brand’s signature DIY sensibility brought the fantasy firmly into the present, and onto the streets. Or should I say, fields?

Across 33 looks, Taymour played with proportion and contradiction. Micro skirts and high-cut briefs mixed with floor-length gowns, while harder, armor-like details cut through organza, lace, and sheer layers. The layered Yuri Gown and lace-trimmed Sarah Gown pushed the collection further into its subversive storybook romanticism.

 

That world-building now extends beyond the wardrobe. Unveiled alongside the show was Collina Strada’s collaboration with Swedish design house Layered, marking Taymour’s first foray into home furnishings. The six-piece collection brings the label’s off-kilter visual language indoors through four hand-tufted rugs and two sofas. Following the show, guests sprawled across the vivid pieces, where the open-air setting felt like a home away from home.

Familiar codes reappear in new forms: Collina Strada’s signature pinks and greens, the plaid seen on its Fall/Winter 2026 runway, and even a pattern pulled from the floor of its New York flagship. Sculptural flower-shaped rugs translate Taymour’s expressive design language into tactile form, bringing her fantastical world into the physical realm.

 

Each rug is hand-tufted over several days before its pile and edges are carved by hand, leaving behind the irregularities of something drawn rather than manufactured into submission. It’s a fitting continuation of Detour, where imaginary, long-lost places brushed up against reality.

After a week spent racing from one show to the next, Collina Strada offered an invitation to wander somewhere else entirely, and perhaps take a little of that world home.