Sandy Liang Rewrites Girlhood For Fall/Winter ’26

Season after season, Sandy Liang continues to build a world where fantasy slips into the everyday, weaving a thread of whimsy throughout Fall/Winter ’26—a true palate cleanser amid New York’s more serious and structured collections.

 

The collection unfolds in an Upper East Side library, fitted with the orange details of old New York—marble, gilded signage, suspended chandeliers. Here, the imagined world of Marie Antoinette’s Petit Trianon takes center stage, and Liang builds upon it with an exploration of the intimate inner workings of a girl’s life, and the sense of disarray that comes from wanting everything at once.

Fragments of whimsical characters play in a a push and pull between utility and ethereality. From Antoinette’s buckled slippers to the navy dress of the titular character of Kiki’s Delivery Service, the pieces are more lived-in, as if refashioned from memory. A beloved bedspread becomes a quilted puffer acket. A Rococo-inspired dress is rendered in soft jersey. Pajamas turn into party dresses, and the line between the domestic and the external meet somewhere in the middle.

An explosion of bows—a Sandy signature—populate across shoes, at the back of dresses, hanging off of cardigans. Bunny slippers walk alongside ribbon-wrapped heels. Brushed leather bags show beauty in age. Frayed trims, delicate ribbon accents, and light-catching paillettes (with, of course, bows thrown in the mix) add unexpected frills.

With it, a reflection on the most personal markings of a girl’s world—and the material objects that shape them—leaves a lasting impression, as the ritual of getting dressed may be one of our most sacred.