YUHAN Wang has always woven fragility into power, but this season she sharpens her point. For Spring/ Summer 2026, titled Armor of Roses, she lifts from the fractured dreamscape of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, where desire and disillusion shimmer like heat over Los Angeles asphalt. Wang’s heroine refuses to be consumed by someone else’s fantasy. She steps through the haze with beauty as both shield and sword.
‘Armor’ here is never blunt. Metallic edges blur under transparent lace, roses climb across tight bodices, and twisted jersey is tempered with. A black gown constellated in crystals sketches the LA skyline, rendering glamour both as celestial and self-possessed.
Drifting between cinematic spectacle and lived-in ease, the casual slouch of early-2000s Los Angeles meets the precision of mid-century couture. Blue dice roll through prints and accessories as an omen of chance. Roses, reappearing in vintage floral fabrics, move beyond nostalgia and recharge as symbols of defiance, continuing to bloom throughout SS26.
True to form, sustainability is never an afterthought but a foundation at Yuhan Wang. Deadstock satin is reconstructed into evening wear, lace remnants are unraveled and respun into fragile knitwear, and scraps are patched into singular forms. Every garment carries a ghost from a previous life, a quiet resistance to disposability that mirrors the collection’s thesis.
Armor of Roses is Yuhan Wang’s most cinematic display. It’s a meditation on femininity unbound and entirely self-authored, a rose blooming from the steel with its thorns intact.
by Imogen Clark