Purple Fashion
[06/30/2025]
Spring / Summer 2026 Willy Chavarria show in Paris review by mavEric
With his Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Willy Chavarria continues to trace lines of flight, bringing the marginalized and the silenced — migrants, outcasts — into the light, where they confront and disarm patriarchal and political violence.
Willy doesn’t flatter domination; he confronts it, proving that clothing can be born of exclusion and social scars.
The shoulders are broad to bear injustice. The baggy cuts are there to conceal what the world refuses to see. Shiny fabrics? To reflect the light they’ve always been denied.
These are the children of broken systems, the offspring of an American dream that turned its back on them at birth.
The women walk with a fixed gaze, with the poise of a boss who’s walked through patriarchal hell and never bowed her head. The dresses are warnings: the beauty of racialized women is a foundation.
Willy expands what could be seen as stereotypes of the margins, inflating them until they become monuments. He softens nothing. He amplifies the image society projects onto these communities—not to mock, but to elevate.
He transforms their images into fashion icons of undeniable authority. Willy doesn’t offer an inclusive casting—he centers power on these figures themselves—not by diluting their culture with a gloss of fashion, but by rendering it royal. And he’s done so by refusing compromise.
Photos by Eseniia Araslanova
