Fall fashion 2026: What to sew, shop and skip #122

Um, I actually have on my number one, which I think is very promising, and I hope, I have fingers crossed, this is gonna be, like, um, a bigger trend.

Um, I saw a lot of articles about mentioning this during the, um, the fashion weeks that was for fall fashion in, in the spring.

I think it's early spring, um, where the fashion shows is, and that is that there's a return to craft, especially when it comes to, like, high-end fashion houses like Chanel, Dior.

It's more about textiles.

It's, like, slightly stitching, stitching details, a little bit embroidery, maybe some fabric appliqué.

I mean, not, it's not like a, a craft, uh, f- fair.

It's more, like, elevated [laughs] obviously because this is high fashion.

But, but still, and, and, uh, and the, the take that I've seen journalists say is that this is, like, the antidote to AI and all the, like, artificiality of the kind of society we live in today, where everything feels like it's kind of, like, came out of, uh, uh, either AI or 3D pr- 3D printer.

Mm.

So I really, really hope that this is a trend that will take on, and I think that's gonna be so fun for us as sewists.

Because in my opinion, part of the joy of sewing is to work with those tiny details.

And I, I thought about it, uh, like last night.

I was, um, lying in bed.

Before I sleep, I was thinking, I, I really want to do start to, like, do embroidery on my makes again.

I used to do that back in the day, so I'm gonna post some, some, some photos on, on my Instagram account on a couple of things I did.

And I was like, I want to do a pleated skirt, and on, on the folds of the, the pleats outside, I want to do, like, cross-stitching, like, tiny flowers.

Like-

Mm-hmm

... that kind of like folklore-ish look, and I felt so excited about it.

And, and so if that becomes a trend, I mean, also that, that entails to the thing that, um, a lot of fashion, fashion knower- knowers that I consume, uh, they say that quiet luxury is, is kind of declining now.

So, like, the Scandi minimalism and all that kind of stuff that we are, like, living in [laughs] w- whether we like it or not, it's gonna slowly, slowly fade into more colors, more embellishment.

And so I'm very excited to see where that trends translate into, like, the mainstream and also how we as, uh, craftspeople and sewists can apply that.

So what's your thought about that trend?

No, I love it.

Mm.